Welcome to EL CAMINO — a concert inspired by the legendary pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Each year, nearly half a million travelers set out on this ancient path, and everyone I have spoken with who has walked it describes a profound sense of transformation. Tonight’s program seeks to offer a parallel journey — not through footsteps, but through music.
At the heart of this evening is Joby Talbot’s monumental and deeply cathartic Path of Miracles. This extraordinary work evokes both the physical demands and the spiritual intensity of the pilgrimage — a journey undertaken for centuries by people of all ages, backgrounds, and beliefs. It is a meditation on endurance, vulnerability, faith, and renewal.
As you listen, I invite you to place yourself within that landscape. Allow the music to guide you through moments of effort and doubt, of wonder and joy, and ultimately toward catharsis. Together, we walk a path shaped by reflection, resilience, and hope.
Path of Miracles stands among the great choral masterworks of our time — a piece that continues to move performers and audiences with rare power and depth. In March, we will bring this program to Spain as part of our tour, culminating in a performance at the magnificent Cathedral of Toledo. We are deeply grateful to share this journey with you tonight and thank you for walking the path with us.
– Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez Artistic Director
Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 5pm
All Souls NYC
EL CAMINO
Talbot, Casals and Victoria
Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez, Artistic Director, Conductor and Pianist
Trent Johnson, Assistant Artistic Director
Musica Viva NY choir
Musica Viva NY soloists
Pablo Casals (1876-1973) ................................... O vos omnes
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) ......................... O vos omnes
Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909) ..................................... Evocación
Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez, piano
Spiritual (arr. by H. T. Burleigh) My Lord, What a Morning
Spiritual (arr. by William L. Dawson) There Is a Balm in Gilead
Katie McCreary, soprano
Spiritual (arr. by Moses Hogan) Elijah Rock
Intermission
Joby Talbot (1971-) Path of Miracles
I. Roncesvalles
II. Burgos
III. Leon
IV. Santiago
Trent Johnson, percussion
We hope you will join us for a party downstairs in Reidy Hall after the concert.
MEET THE ARTISTS
Musica Viva NY is a non-profit arts organization that was established nearly fifty years ago. Its mission is to bring world-class music to a wide community through an annual concert series, an active community engagement program, and an ambitious artistic vision. Under the baton of Artistic Director Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez since 2015, Musica Viva NY strives to offer joy, solace and renewal in a complex world by presenting new compositions and classic masterworks in transformative interpretations that ennoble the human spirit.
Musica Viva NY’s superb chamber choir and world class collaborating instrumentalists make their concert home at Manhattan’s historic All Souls NYC. “Musica Viva NY is a treasured institution that makes living in New York a joy” (Front Row Center).
Musica Viva NY regularly combines its presentation of the classical repertoire with less widely known works, as part of its commitment to perform the works of living American composers, women composers and composers of color, including works that address social, racial or environmental issues.
Musica Viva NY has commissioned and premiered numerous works by contemporary composers including Bora Yoon, Seymour Bernstein, Elena Ruehr, Joseph Turrin, Bruce Saylor, Jean-Louis Petit, Eugenio Toussaint, Gilda Lyons, Richard Einhorn, Trent Johnson and Trevor Weston. “With a commitment to new music and diverse composers, New York City choir Musica Viva NY is paving the way for daring collaborations” (Choir & Organ Magazine).
Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez is a celebrated conductor and pianist known for his expressive artistry and innovative programming. He serves as Artistic Director of Musica Viva NY, Director of Music at the Unitarian Church of All Souls in Manhattan, Artistic Director of the Victoria Bach Festival in Texas, and cofounder and Artistic Director of the New Orchestra of Washington (NOW).
Praised by The Washington Post for his “incisive clarity” and by The New York Times for delivering “a stirring performance,” Hernandez-Valdez
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is a passionate advocate for both traditional and contemporary music. He has commissioned and premiered works by a diverse roster of composers including Joan Tower, Arturo Márquez, Joseph Turrin, Gilda Lyons, Richard Einhorn, Seymour Bernstein, Viet Cuong, Juan Pablo Contreras, Trevor Weston, and Elena Ruehr, among others.
Under his leadership, Musica Viva NY has expanded its artistic reach, earning acclaim for compelling performances and, most recently, a landmark Naxos release featuring legendary mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade. With NOW, he has redefined the chamber orchestra experience, presenting bold programs in venues such as the Kennedy Center.
Hernandez-Valdez has also appeared as a pianist at the Britten100 Festival and composed The Imaginary City, inspired by the life of Ramzi Aburedwan. He was honored by Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Creadores Mexicanos en el Extranjero and received the Shenandoah Conservatory Alumni of Excellence Award.
Upcoming engagements include performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Bach’s B Minor Mass, Brahms’s Symphony No.1, and the world premiere of Grammy-nominated composer Juan Pablo Contreras’s Symphony No.1. He will also lead Musica Viva NY on a tour of Spain in collaboration with Teatro Real.
Sanctuary Sounds: A series of meditative sound baths Sundays at 5 PM
Come join us at All Souls NYC for a series of sound baths with an exciting line-up of artists! A sound bath is an immersive, full-body listening experience that intentionally uses sound to nurture your mind and body. This is a pay what you wish program with a suggested donation of $20. You will never be turned away due to lack of funds.
March 15: Ashley Frith, a violist, singer, composer, music educator and facilitator of belonging. Her practice addresses how racism affects our individual and collective interiority as it amplifies all forms of oppression. Ashley will feature the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks and Audre Lorde.
PROGRAM NOTES
Known primarily as a world-renowned cellist, Catalan composer Pablo Casals (1876–1973) would eventually use his global platform to promote world peace through human kindness in the wake of numerous authoritarian regimes rising to power in the first half of the twentieth century. Before the uprising that led to the Spanish Civil War in 1936, Casals served on the Music Board of the newly established autonomous government of Catalonia. During this time, he wrote several pieces dedicated to the Montserrat Monastery, nestled high in the eponymous mountain range near Barcelona. The text of “O vos omnes” (1932) comes from Lamentations 1:12 in the aftermath of Jerusalem’s destruction by Babylon, foreshadowing the fate of the composer’s homeland and his exile that followed. The setting dramatizes the text as the voices repeat in urgent pleas for those who pass by to look and take pity. After the voices address the onlookers, Casals sets their attendite (“pay attention”) in a desperate outburst of heightened pitches and proceeds to characterize the afflicted’s dolor (“pain”) in the sweetest, appealing harmonies. With each of Casals’s purposeful pauses, however, the voices turn to a more somber, inward reflection as they descend in pitch and volume. The piece ends with a brief echo of the opening plea, again with all voices unified.
During Tomás Luis de Victoria’s (1548–1611) lifetime, the text of “O vos omnes” (1572) was often part of the Tenebrae (“darkness”) Responsories for Holy Saturday, a time for spiritual mourning in the days leading up to Christ’s resurrection. Born just northwest of Madrid and educated in Spain, Victoria spent the majority of his career composing sacred music in Rome alongside other prominent figures in the late-Renaissance “Roman School.” While they still employed polyphony—multiple voices moving independently—they also embraced a more progressive style following the Council of Trent (1545–1563) and its effort to address abuses and excesses in worship. This new style contrasted the dense texture of complex counterpoint that often obfuscated sacred texts in the works of Victoria’s fifteenth-century predecessors. This newfound textual clarity has a particularly profound effect for “O vos omnes,” whose humble phrases of appeal seek out the empathy—and imagination—of the audience.
Credited with discovering his fellow countryman, Pablo Casals, Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909) is remembered largely for his Spanish folk-inspired piano compositions. In the early 1880s, at the outset of a burgeoning nationalist movement, Albéniz took a friend’s advice and began incorporating Spanish musical traditions into his style, otherwise shaped by his time in prestigious European conservatories. Albéniz found that these traditional influences complemented another trend—impressionism. These two techniques play a significant role in his most influential work, Iberia (1905–8). Albéniz composed this 12-movement piano suite in the final years of his life, when he was in France suffering from kidney disease. True to its name, the opening piece “Evocación” could be read as the ailing Albéniz abroad, reminiscing about his joyful youth in Spain. In the final measures, memories as cheerful, light melodic flourishes are interrupted by stern minor chords that eventually succumb to the peaceful parallel major of its home key, A♭♭♭ minor.
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Born in Erie, PA, Harry T. Burleigh (1866–1949) gained international acclaim for his concert arrangements of African American spirituals as well as his original art songs. Burleigh learned to sing spirituals from his grandfather, who was born into slavery and later purchased his own freedom. Burleigh’s distinct musicality caught the attention of the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music in NYC. The former’s influence on the latter’s triumphant “American” style has been noted at length. Burleigh’s “My Lord, What a Morning” (1918) marks a shift in our program from somber reflection to rapturous meditation on newfound hope as the voices’ harmonies paint an ever-shifting sunrise, delivering a crystalline text delighting in creation.
William L. Dawson’s (1899–1990) arrangement of “There Is a Balm in Gilead” (1939) furthers this optimism with a delicate, lilting motif weaving voices together as they meet and part on their own journeys to healing. Although Dawson was born in Alabama during an entirely new era of structural oppression for Black Americans, he continued the legacy of Burleigh and others who fought for the value of African American music and talent in formerly White music spheres.
A native of New Orleans, composer and pianist Moses Hogan (1957–2003) is among the most prolific arrangers of spirituals to date. His “Elijah Rock” (1996) is one of the more complex arrangements in the repertoire with layers of syncopated rhythms, swift vocal patter, and demanding transitions. The middle section is a brief reprieve from the bustle as the upper voices steadily express their desire for a firm foundation in their faith, to “stand on the rock where Moses stood.” Now in context, the complexity of the surrounding material may demonstrate the erratic nature of a believer’s faith, ultimately concluding with a crescendoing affirmation, “I’m comin’ up Lord.”
There are numerous paths (physical and spiritual) that lead to the shrine of the Apostle James in the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, located in the northwestern corner of Spain. British composer Joby Talbot’s (b. 1971) Path of Miracles (2005) follows four movements based on major stops along the French Way of the ancient Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. Musically, each stop forms a distinct atmosphere, whether it be the chaotic and crowded entry point (“Roncesvalles”), the depths of the travelers’ isolation and introspection (“Burgos”), their hopefulness at the penultimate stop (“Léon”), or the reflection and joyous celebration upon arrival (“Santiago”). The work features an eclectic libretto by Robert Dickinson that blends texts ranging from the Catholic liturgy to modern poetry. Likewise, the 17-part choir, soloists, speaker, and crotales (miniature cymbals) traverse musical influences from the Taiwanese Bunun people to the pilgrims’ hymn, Dum Pater Familias. The variety of languages represented in the work—Greek, Latin, Spanish, Basque, French, English, and German—speaks to the universality of the desire to pilgrimage in earnest pursuit of something greater beyond oneself.
– Evangeline Athanasiou
MUSICA VIVA NY TOUR TO SPAIN
MARCH 12-20, 2026
Musica Viva NY is going on tour to Spain in March 2026, presented by Teatro Real , one of the preeminent opera companies in Europe. It promises to be a truly special trip, with concerts in Toledo, Madrid and Zaragoza. Beyond the concerts there will be exclusive musical offerings, cultural outings and special gatherings. You can find full tour details on our website.
For more information about the tour, including how to join or support it, please visit our website at www.musicaviva.org and/or email jasna@musicaviva.org .
We are incredibly grateful to all those listed below who have made the tour possible through their generous support:
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Musica Viva NY Leadership Circle
usica Viva NY is excited to announce the formation of a Leadership Circle. The Leadership Circle comprises our Patrons who have pledged multi-year support of at least $2500 per year, and/or foundational support for future commissions, recordings, and tours. The Leadership Circle meets once a year to collaborate on strategic planning with the Artistic Director and Board of Directors, and to ensure Musica Viva NY’s continued growth.
Initial Leadership Circle members
Barbara Cohn
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David & Susan Rockefeller
Lori Cohen and Christopher Rothko
Madonna Starr
Gail Triggs
TEXTS
Pablo Casals (1876-1973)
— O vos omnes
O vos omnes, qui transitis per viam, attendite, et videte
Si est sicut dolor meus.
– Lamentations of Jeremiah 1:12
Spiritual (arr. by H. T. Burleigh)
— My Lord, What a Morning
My Lord, what a morning; Oh, my Lord, what a morning, When the stars begin to fall.
Done quit all my worldly ways Join that heavenly band.
Oh! My Lord, what a morning; Oh, my Lord, what a morning, When the stars begin to fall.
Joby Talbot (1971-) — Path of Miracles
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
— O vos omnes
O all you who pass by this way, look and see whether there is any sorrow like my sorrow.
Spiritual (arr. by William L. Dawson)
— There Is a Balm in Gilead
There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole, there is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul.
Sometimes I feel discouraged and think my work’s in vain, but then the Holy Spirit revives my soul again.
If you cannot preach like Peter, if you cannot pray like Paul, you can tell the love of Jesus and say, “He died for all.”
Spiritual (arr. by Moses Hogan) — Elijah Rock
Elijah rock shout shout Elijah rock comin’ up Lord Satan ain’t nothin’ but a snake in the grass He’s a conjurer, he’s a liar Hallelujah, Lord. If I could I surely would Stand on the rock where Moses stood.
Text: Poetry by Robert Dickinson (English, born 1962), interspersed with passages from the Bible, the 12th-century Codex Calixtinus, and other mediaeval sources
1. Roncesvalles
Herr Santiagu
Grot Sanctiagu
Eultreya esuseya
Deius aia nos.
Holy St James
Great St James God helps us now and evermore.
James, son of Zebedee, brother of John, at that time preached in Spain and the Western places. He was the first to preach in Galicia.
TEXTS
Eodem autore tempore misit Herodes rex manus ut adfligeret quosdam de ecclesia occidit autem Iacobum fratrem Iohannis gladio.
En aquel mismo tiempo el rey Herodes echó mano a algunos de la iglesia para maltratarles. Y mató a espada a Jacobo, hermano de Juan.
Aldi hartan, Herodes erregea eliz elkarteko batzuei gogor erasotzen hasi zen. Santiago, Joanen anaia, ezpataz hilarazi zuen. Ver ce temps-là, le roi Hérode se mit à persécuter quelques-un de membres de l’Église. Il fit mourir par l’épée Jacques, frère de Jean.
Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.
Um dieselbige Zeit legte der König Herodes die Hände an, etliche von der Gemeinde, sie zu peinigen. Er tötete aber Jakobus, den Bruder des Johannes, mit dem Schwert.
Before this death the Apostle journeyed, preaching the word to unbelievers. Returning, unheeded, to die in Jerusalem — a truth beyond Gospel.
Jacobus, filius Zebedaei, frate Johannis, Hic Spaniae et occidentalia loca praedicat.
Foy el o primeiro que preegou en Galizia.
Herod rots on a borrowed throne, while the saint is translated to Heaven and Spain, the body taken at night from the tomb, the stone of the tomb becoming the boat that carries him back ad extremis terrarum, back to the land that denied him in life.
Huius beatissimi apostoli sacra ossa ad Hispanias translata.
Et despois que o rrey Erodes mãdou matar en Iherusalem, trouxerõ o corpo del os diçipolos por mar a Galiz.
James, son of Zebedee, brother of John, at that time preached in Spain and the Western places.
He was the first to preach in Galicia.
The sacred bones of the blessed apostle taken to Spain.
After King Herod killed him in Jerusalem, his disciples took the body by sea to Galicia.
TEXTS
From Jerusalem to Finisterre, from the heart of the world to the end of the land in a boat made of stone, without rudder or sail.
Guided by grace to the Galician shore.
Abandonnant à la Providence la soin de la sepulture.
O ajutor omnium saeculorum, O decus apostolorum, O lus clara galicianorum, O avocate peregrinorum, Jacobe, suplantatur viciorum Solve nostrum Cathenes delitorum E duc a salutum portum.
Abandoning to Providence the care of the tomb.
O judge of all the world, O glory of the apostles, O clear light of Galicia, O defender of pilgrims, James, destroyer of sins, Deliver us from evil and lead us to safe harbour.
At night on Lebredon by Iria Flavia the hermit Pelayo at prayer and alone Saw in the heavens a ring of bright stars shining like beacons over the plain And as in Bethlehem the Magi were guided the hermit was led by this holy sign For this was the time given to Spain for St James to be found after eight hundred years in Compostella, by the field of stars.
Holy St James Great St James God helps us now and evermore.
Innkeepers cheat us, the English steal, The devil waits at the side of the road. We trust in words and remnants, prayers and bones.
We know that the world is a lesson
As the carved apostles in the Puerta Alta Dividing the damned and the saved are a lesson.
We beat our hands against the walls of heaven.
St Julian of Cuenca, Santa Casilda, pray for us.
Remember the pilgrim robbed in Pamplona,
Cheated of silver the night his wife died; Remember the son of the German pilgrim
Hanged as a thief at the gates of the town, Hanged at the word of an innkeeper’s daughter.
Innkeepers cheat us, the English steal, The devil waits at the side of the road. We trust in words and remnants, prayers and bones.
Santiago Peregrino:
His arm is in England, his jaw in Italy, And yet he works wonders. The widower, the boy on the gallows — He did not fail them.
One given a horse on the road by a stranger,
TEXTS
One kept alive for twenty-six days, Unhurt on a gallows for twenty-six days.
His jaw is in Italy, yet he speaks.
The widower robbed in Pamplona: Told by the Saint how the thief Fell from the roof of a house to his death.
His arm is in England, yet the boy, The pilgrim’s son they hanged in Toulouse
Was borne on the gallows for twenty-six days
And called to his father: Do not mourn, For all this time the Saint has been with me.
O beate Jacobe.
Innkeepers cheat us, the English steal. We are sick of body, worthy of hell.
The apostles in the Puerta Alta Have seen a thousand wonders; The stone floor is worn with tears, With ecstasies and lamentations. We beat our hands against the walls of heaven.
Santiago Peregrino:
The devil waits in a turn in the wind In a closing door in an empty room. A voice at night, a waking dream. Traveller, be wary of strangers, Sometimes the Saint takes the form of a pilgrim, Sometimes the devil the form of a saint. Pray to the Saints and the Virgen del Camino,
Ora pro nobis, Jacobe, A finibus terrae ad te clamavi.
To save you as she saved the man from Lyon
Who was tricked on the road by the deceiver,
Tricked by the devil in the form of St James
And who killed himself from fear of hell;
The devil cried out and claimed his soul. Weeping, his companions prayed. Saint and Virgin heard the prayer And turned his wound into a scar, From mercy they gave the dead man life.
Innkeepers cheat us, the English steal, We are sick of body, worthy of hell. We beat our hands against the walls of heaven and are not heard.
We pray for miracles and are given stories;
Bread, and are given stones. We write our sins on parchment
To cast upon his shrine in hope they will burn.
We pray to St Julian of Cuenca, to St Amaro the Pilgrim, To Santa Casilda, to San Millan and the Virgin of the Road. We pray to Santiago.
We know that the world is a lesson As the carved apostles in the Puerta Alta Dividing the damned and the saved are a lesson.
We pray the watching saints will help us learn.
Pray for us, James, From the end of the earth I cry to you.
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TEXTS
3. León
Li soleus qui en moi luist est mes deduis, Et Dieus est mon conduis.
The sun that shines within me is my joy, and God is my guide.
We have walked in Jakobsland: Over river and sheep track, by hospice and hermit’s cave.
We sleep on the earth and dream of the road, We wake to the road and we walk.
Wind from the hills, dry as the road, Sun overhead, too bright for the eye.
Rumours of grace on the road, of wonders: The miracles of Villasirga, The Virgin in the apple tree.
The Apostle on horseback — a journey of days in one night. God knows we have walked in Jakobsland:
Through the Gothic Fields, from Castrogeriz to Calzadilla, Calzadilla to Sahagun, each day the same road, the same sun.
Quam dilecta tabernacula tua, Dominum virtutem.
Here is a miracle.
That we are here is a miracle. Here daylight gives an image of The heaven promised by His love.
Beate, qui habitant in domo tua, Domine; In saecula saeculorum laudabant te.
We pause, as at the heart of a sun That dazzles and does not burn.
How admirable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts.
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house; they will still be praising be.
TEXTS
4. Santiago
The road climbs through changing land. Northern rains fall on the deepening green of the slopes of the valley, Storms break the summer’s heat; At Foncebadon a pass can be lost, in one night, to the snow.
The road climbs for days through the highlands of Bierzo, To the grassland and rocks of the Valcarce valley. White broom and scrub-oak, laburnum and gorse Mark the bare hills beside the road.
At O Cebreiro, mountains. The road follows the ridgetop By meadows of fern, by fields of rye. By Fonfria del Camino, by Triacastela.
Towns are shadows the road leaves behind. It moves over the slate hills. Palas do Rei. Potomarin. The names are shadows.
Then, from the stream at Lavacolla to the foot of Monte de Gozo, a morning; From the foot of Monte de Gozo to the summit of Monte de Gozo
The road climbs, before the longed-for final descent to Santiago
Herr Santiagu
Grot Sanctiagu
Eultreya esuseya Delius aia nos
Ver redit optatum, cum gaudio, Flore decoratum purpureo; Aves edunt cantus quam dulciter, Cantus est amoenus totaliter.
Jacobo dat parium omnis mundus gratis
Ob cuius remedium miles pietatis Cunctorum presidium est ad vota satis.
O beate Jacobe, virtus nostra vere, Nobis hostes remove tuos ac tuere Ac devotos adibe nos tibi placer.
Jacobo, propicio veniam speramus, Et quas ex obsequio merito debemus, Patri tam eximio dignes laudes demus.
Holy St James Great St James God helps us now and evermore.
Longed-for spring returns, with joy, adorned with shining flowers. The birds sing so sweetly, the woods burst into leaf, there is pleasant song on every side.
The whole world freely gives thanks to James; through his sacrifice, he, the warrior of godliness, is a great defense to all through their prayers.
O blessed James, truly our strength, take our enemies from us and protect your people, and cause us, your faithful servants, to please you.
James, let us hope for pardon through your favor, and let us give the worthy praise, which we rightfully owe to so excellent a father.
TEXTS
At the Western edge of the world We pray for our sins to fall from us As chains from the limbs of penitents.
We have walked out of the lives we had And will return to nothing, if we live, Changed by the journey, face and soul alike.
We have walked out of our lives To come to where the walls of heaven Are thin as a curtain, transparent as glass.
Where the Apostle spoke the holy words, Where in death he returned, where God is close, Where saints and martyrs mark the road.
Santiago, primus ex apostolis, Defender of pilgrims, warrior for truth, Take from our backs the burdens of this life.
What we have done, who we have been; Take them as fire takes the cloth They cast into the sea at Finisterre.
Holy St James, great St James God help us now and evermore.
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• Preferred seating
CANTABILE
$200-$499
• Invitation to a season preview with the Artistic Director in the choir loft
• One complimentary season subscription
• Preferred seating
DOLCE
$25-$199
• Acknowledgment in program at all levels
MUSICA VIVA NY PATRONS 2025-2026
We are deeply grateful to our Patrons listed below for their support of our 2025-2026 season. Thank you for joining us! Your support for our outstanding Musica Viva NY artists, our high-caliber, innovative choral and orchestral performances, and our community engagement is vital and essential.
Corporate and Foundation Support
AEA Investors
Blackbaud Corporate Philanthopy, in honor of Andrew Taylor-Troup
The Heart & Soul Charitable Fund
Morgan Stanley
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
The Rea Charitable Fund
The Women’s Alliance
Con Spirito $25,000 and above
Barbara Cohn
Melanie & David Niemiec
Susan & David Rockefeller, Jr.
Appassionato $10,000 to $24,999
Don & Georgia Gogel
Con Fuoco $5,000 to $9,999
Tom & Heli Blum
Heidi & Nicholas DuBois
Fritz Reuter
Jennifer Shotwell
Gail Triggs
Con Brio $3,000 to $4,999
Stillman Brown
Lisa & Dick Cashin
Shu-Wie Chen
Liz Harvey
Pamela Healey
Margaret MacCary
Dinah Nissen
Lisa O’Brien
Laura Pedersen
David Poppe & Cherie Henderson
Madonna K. Starr
Risoluto $1,000 - $2,999
Shawn Bartels
Bill Bechman & Tom Garlock
Susan Boland
Cynthia & Richard Esposito
Victor Fidel &
Heather Floyd
Lois Gaeta, in Memory of David Remember Baker
Dixie Goss & Dan Cryer
Lena Kaplan
Stephen Lash
Carri Lyon
Dede McMahon
Harold Norris & Kell Julliard
Lynne Randall
Bradford & Gail Rodney
Judith Samuelson & Vic Henschel
Epp Sonin
Andrew Taylor-Troup
Brenda Walker
One anonymous donation
Espressivo $500 - $999
Barbara de Bellis, in memory of Greta Minsky
Robin Bossert
Julie Brannan
Miles Chapin
Mary Gundermann
Michele Jawin & Dr. Mark Kroll
George Loomis
Erika Mikkelsen Halford
James Moskin
Winnie Olsen
Kate Phillips
Bradley & Erich
Strauchen-Scherer
Karen Steele
Deborah Taylor
Edward Whitney
Aracy Winter
Rachel Ziemba
Cantabile $200 - $499
Christina Bellamy
Betsy & David Bennett
Anne Brewer
John Danzer & Chip Allemann
Joan Flesch
Anne Fraenkel-Thonet
Jeffrey & Marjory Friedlander
Mary Geissman
Laura Gill
Carol Kirkman
Patricia Lloyd
John Mascio
Tara McNamara
Erik Resurreccion
William Steele
Alison Tung
Dolce $25 - $199
Michelle Demko
Richard Einhorn
Linda Francke
Margaret Kampmeier & Ed Harsh
Laird Kelly
Millie & John Liebmann, Jr.
Elizabeth Millard
Whitman
Isabel Mountbatten
Jane & George Nissen
Debora Schneller
Susan Scully
This list reflects gifts received from June 1, 2025 to February 12, 2026.
Musica Viva NY is extremely grateful for the following help with its 2025-26 season from:
All Souls NYC ( www.AllSoulsNYC.org ) for Musica Viva NY’s meeting, rehearsal, performance, and reception spaces as well as for the facilities and events staff who help make all productions run smoothly
Heart & Soul Fund, Inc. for its longtime support of our community engagement programming
MVNY’s community engagement is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council
