(MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- Harmonium Choral Society proudly announces its 2025–2026 season - four transformative concerts exploring sacred heritage, cultural resilience, and the power of song to connect us across time. Artistic Director Dr. Anne Matlack leads Harmonium singers in a season of musical discovery, reflection and joy.
December 13–14, 2025 Season of Blessings at Morristown Presbyterian Church (57 E Park Place) in Morristown, NJ. Harmonium celebrates this cherished time of warmth and wonder with Renaissance polyphony, bluegrass harmonies and contemporary premieres. Highlights including Prayer to the She chinah by Andrea Clearfield (East Coast premiere) – an invocation of the feminine divine, Gloria from Bach’s Mass in B Minor – paired with Gloria from The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass by Carol Barnett, and Craig Courtney’s hilarious Musicological JourneyThrough the Twelve Days of Christmas. Other composers range from Palestrina to Alice Parker. “This program is a musical embrace,” says Matlack. “It offers beauty and humor – blessings we all need right now.”
March 7–8, 2026: Rooted in Eternity at Morristown United Methodist Church (50 S Park Place) in Morristown, NJ. A meditative journey of sound and spirit, centered on Heinrich Schütz’s Musikalische Exequien, a 17th-century masterpiece of consolation and transcendence. With viol and lute, the piece offers listeners a space for reflection and reconnection.
Also featuring the premiere of Sing Me Home by Mark Miller – a call to belonging and spiritual grounding, Salve Regina by César Carrillo – sacred tenderness with Latin American roots, and Breaths by Ysaye Barnwell – a live surround sound experience not to be missed.
May 9-10, 2026: Longing at Chambers Singers at Grace Church in Madison, NJ. The select 24-voice Chamber Singers explore longing for love, for justice, and for joy, with works ranging from Renaissance to contemporary, Gesualdo to Bob Dylan.
June 6–7, 2026: Ride the Storm at Morristown United Methodist Church (50 S Park Place) in Morristown, NJ. Harmonium celebrates America’s revolutionary ideals and today’s pressing questions of identity, justice, and unity in the words of Alexander Hamilton, Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine and Lafayette, brought to life by composers including David Thomson, Melissa Dunphy, Jackson Berkey, Laurel Luke Christensen, Mark Miller and the winning composers of our 29th annual NJ HS Choral Composition Contest. Music by William Billings, Gwyneth Walker, Leonard Bernstein and more.
All Saturday concerts start at 7:30pm and Sunday concerts are a matinee starting at 3:00pm. Tickets can be used for either performance. Doors open one-half hour before the concert begins.
Harmonium Choral Society is dedicated to ensuring that all our patrons are able to enjoy the arts equally. If you need a large print program or have accessibility needs, questions, or concerns, please contact us at least two weeks prior to the performance, and we will assist you in the best manner we have available. We are always looking to make your experience better, and we welcome your input.
Harmonium Choral Society is a participating arts organization that offers free tickets through the Families First Discovery Program.
Funding has been made possible in part by funds from Morris Arts through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by funds from the New Jersey Cultural Trust.
Directed by Dr. Anne J. Matlack since 1987, Harmonium Choral Society is one of New Jersey's leading choral arts organizations. The 100-voice chorus has been recognized for its musical excellence and innovative programming and has commissioned over 30 works by contemporary composers to keep the choral arts vibrant and alive. In addition, the High School Student Choral Composition Contest has won the prestigious Chorus America Education and Outreach Award. Harmonium also sponsors musicianship workshops and an outreach chorus that performs in schools, retirement facilities, and other venues.
