Sacred Music — Fall 2026

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. (Please don’t use the same email address to register more than one person, as this confuses the computers.)

If you can already get onto campus, you don’t need to register — registration is only for entry to campus. 

September

Thursday, September 17 at 6pm
Cellist Louise Dubin and pianist John Novacek
Also broadcast live on WKCR FM, as part of the station's 85th Anniversary Celebration.
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Saturday, September 19 at 5pm (note the unusual time)
UConn Collegium Musicum: An Early Renaissance Vespers
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Thursday, September 24 at 6pm
The Saamis: preserving an 800-year old vocal tradition of Khayal 
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Tuesday, September 29 at 6pm
Salon Sanctuary Concerts: Kahal, Court, and Casbah 
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October

Thursday, October 1 at 6pm
Land of Naad: Visveshwar Nagarajan & Richard X Bennett
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Tuesday, October 6 at 6pm
Piotr Rojek, organ
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Thursday, October 8 at 6pm
Indrajit Roy-Chowdhury: ragas — an evolving tradition 
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Thursday, October 15 at 6pm
Harlem Gospel Ensemble: gospel through the ages
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Tuesday, October 20 at 6pm
Indeterminate works for large ensemble by Feldman, Brown, and Long
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Thursday, October 22 at 6pm
Chamber works by Feldman, Brown, and Long 
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Tuesday, October 27 at 6pm
Vinay Desai, santoor 
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Thursday, October 29 at 6pm
Italian violin music of the seventeenth century, with Jimmy Drancsak & Julian Bennett Holmes
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November

Thursday, November 5 at 6pm
Hounded Earth: new music for string quartet, with The Rhythm Method
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Tuesday, November 10 at 6pm
Piano and cello works of Laura Cetilia
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Thursday, November 12 at 6pm
Dariusz Bąkowski-Kois & Marcin Kucharczyk, organ four hands
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Thursday, November 19 at 6pm (in person only)
Sonnambula
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December

Friday, December 11 at 6pm
A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: hymns, carols, and readings
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Tuesday, December 15 at 6pm
The Play of Herod, a music drama from the twelfth century
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And, organ meditations by Julian Bennett Holmes and guests, every Tuesday at 2pm (September 22 through December 8; no organ meditation on November 24).