Sacred Music at Columbia — Winter 2025

We present free concerts at St. Paul’s Chapel (117th & Amsterdam) and streaming on YouTube. With questions, contact Julian Bennett Holmes.

While Columbia’s campus remains closed to the public, you can register in advance for each concert, and you will be able to get onto campus for that concert. You must register separately for each concert, and there is a strict deadline: 11am the day before each concert. It is impossible to register late, so please register as soon as you can — simply click the Register link below each concert. (Note: please don’t use the same email address to register more than one person, as this confuses the computers.)

If you are a student, faculty member, or staff member at Columbia and you can already get onto campus, you don’t need to register.

January

Thursday, January 30, 6pm
David Bernat & Elias Dagher play violin sonatas of Bach, Ravel, Schulhoff
Register

February

Tuesday, February 4, 7pm
Chinese music for zheng, with Yashi Li
Register

Tuesday, February 11, 7pm
Carnatic & Hindustani jugalbandhi, with Visveshwar Nagarajan, Murali Balachandran, Rohan Prabhudesai, and Sarangdev Vaidya
Register

Friday, February 14, 7:30pm
Ekmeles: Stimmung Is for Lovers — Valentine’s Day performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Stimmung (1968)
Register

Tuesday, February 18, 7pm
Westside Chamber Players: music by Sofia Ouyang, Geli Li, Kaija Saariaho, Leoš Janáček, and Hildegard
Register

Tuesday, February 25, 7pm
New music by Menelaos Peistikos: meditative chamber works
Register

Thursday, February 27, 6pm
Music for horn & organ, with Wilden Dannenberg, horn, and Samuel Kuffuor-Affriyie, organ
Register

March

Tuesday, March 4, 7pm
Steve Long: New works for organ and ensemble
Register

Thursday, March 6, 6pm
Tarun Bhattacharya, santoor: Hindustani santoor recital
Register

Tuesday, March 25, 7pm
Many Paths to the Divine: Devotional Music from the Indian, Persian, and Arab Traditions
This concert will be followed by a discussion with the musicians.
Register

Thursday, March 27, 6pm
In Nomine Ensemble: Elegance & Wildness
Register

April

Tuesday, April 1, 7pm
Trio Fadolín
Register

Thursday, April 3, 6pm
Richard X Bennett: ragas on piano
Register

Tuesday, April 8, 7pm
A Bulgarian Celebration, with Yasna Voices & Gail Archer
Register

Thursday, April 10, 7:30pm (note the unusual time)
The Mystery Sonatas of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Register

Tuesday, April 15, 7pm
Duo Sapientia: violin duos by Gibbons, Bach, and Bartók
Register

Thursday, April 17, 6pm
New Works for MIDI Organ
Register

Tuesday, April 22, 7pm
Marco Jimenez, organ
Register

Tuesday, April 29, 7pm
Sonnambula
Register

And, organ meditations by Julian Bennett Holmes and guests, every Tuesday at 2pm (starting February 4).