Sacred Music — Spring 2026

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

Please note: we’ve slightly adjusted the schedule this semester, with almost all of our concerts now starting at 6pm. (The concert on April 21 begins at 6:30pm.)

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.

FEBRUARY

Thursday, February 5 at 6pm 
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s Sonatae unarum fidum (1664) 
Pre-concert talk by Marco Donato Tomassi at 5:15pm 
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Tuesday, February 10 at 7pm 
Westside Chamber Players: Empires Resound 
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Thursday, February 12 at 6pm 
Eastern European songs, with Gail Archer 
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Thursday, February 19 at 6pm 
Du’Bois A’Keen: the Sacred Songs Suite
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Tuesday, February 24 at 6pm 
New music for MIDI organ 
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Thursday, February 26 at 6pm 
Trio Fadolín 
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MARCH

Tuesday, March 3 at 6pm 
Zephyra: women composers since the Age of Enlightenment 
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Thursday, March 5 at 6pm 
Guqin Meets Clavichord: Ancient Instruments from Asia & Europe 
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Tuesday, March 10 at 6pm 
Byrne:Kozar:Duo 
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Thursday, March 12 at 6pm 
Roman Perucki, organ 
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Tuesday, March 24 at 6:30pm 
International Contemporary Ensemble 
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Thursday, March 26 at 6pm 
Greg Hammontree: “Trumpet: Echoes” 
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Tuesday, March 31 at 6pm 
Qubit: “Chant” 
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APRIL

Tuesday, April 7 at 6pm 
Cosmic and Divine Audiations: new works in premiere 
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Thursday, April 9 at 6pm 
Gail Archer, organ 
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Tuesday, April 14 at 6pm 
200 years of Italian studies at Columbia 
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Tuesday, April 21 at 6:30pm 
Ekmeles: new vocal music 
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Thursday, April 23 at 6pm 
New music for chamber quartet
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Tuesday, April 28 at 6pm 
Music of Morton Feldman
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And, organ meditations by Julian Bennett Holmes and guests, every Tuesday at 2pm (through April 28).