Here are the headlines for Kent’s 2022-23 season!

Those two world premieres: A Nation of Others, a new oratorio for six soloists, chorus and orchestra by Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell with the Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall that brings to life one day of immigrants’ arrival at Ellis Island in 1921 (November 15, 2022); and a setting of the Stabat Mater for organ, soloists, chorus, and orchestra by David Briggs at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (March 8, 2023). Also on the OSNY November 15 program is Robert Paterson’s Whitman’s America (2016), settings of poems from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass for soprano and baritone soloists, chorus, and orchestra.

Kent leads Bach’s Mass in B Minor with the Oratorio Society of New York (May 8, 2023); and wide-ranging programs with Musica Sacra – music from 14^th-century England and France interspersed with contemporary voices (October 25, 2022) and a program featuring music of women composers spanning more than five centuries (April 18, 2023) – performed at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

And of course there is Handel’s Messiah at Carnegie Hall, with the Oratorio Society of New York (December 19, 2022) and Musica Sacra (December 21, 2022).

In addition to the Briggs premiere, Kent leads the Cathedral Choir of St. John the Divine in “Venice: City of Light,” a collaboration with Rose of the Compass celebrating the variety in the city’s cultural fabric (May 16, 2023); as well as the Cathedral’s annual “The Joy of Christmas” concert (December 9 & 10, 2022) and the “New Year’s Eve Concert for Peace” (December 31, 2022).

On the organ front, Kent performs two recitals at St. John the Divine: a program of works by J. S. Bach, César Franck, and Stephen Paulus (October 16, 2022), and music of David Hurd and Maurice Duruflé (April 16, 2023). He also performs a recital on the Fisk organ at Christ Church Episcopal in Westerly, RI (September 30, 2022), and at First United Methodist Church in Des Moines, IA (October 9, 2022). As the organist of the New York Philharmonic, Kent will give the first performances on the new organ of David Geffen Hall on the hall’s reopening program (October 12-18, 2022), in Respighi’s Pines of Rome.

Kent also conducts a performance of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City, UT (March 19, 2023).

See more details and links below – and tickets for Oratorio Society of New York and events at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine are available now!