Herring Chamber Ensemble

Concert Features 1998 – 2025

The 24-voice Herring Chamber Ensemble is sponsored by Gordon and Sarah Herring

1998 – Brahms “Liebeslieder Walzer,” Opus 52
R.Vaughan Williams “Serenade to Music”

1999 – J.S.Bach “Jesu, meine Freude” BWV 227
Benjamin Britten “Hymn to St. Cecilia” Opus 27

2000 – Franz J. Haydn “Te Deum for Empress Marie Therese"
Johannes Brahms “Rhapsodie” Opus 53
Benjamin Britten “Rejoice in the Lamb” Opus 30

2001 – J.S.Bach “Coffee Cantata” BWV 211
Ludwig van Beethoven “Elegisher Gesang” Opus 118

2002 – Johannes Brahms “Nänie” Opus 82 (Aiken, SC)
Aaron Copland “In the Beginning”

2003 – J.S.Bach “Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden” BWV 230
R.Vaughan Williams “Serenade to Music”

2004 – Johannes Brahms “Five Songs” Opus 104
Franz J. Haydn “Part Songs”
P.D.Q. Bach “The Seasonings”

2005 - Herbert Howells “Requiem”
Aaron Copland “Old American Songs”

2006 – W.A.Mozart “Missa Brevis in F” K.192
Johannes Brahms “Liebeslieder Walzer” Opus 52
P.D.Q. Bach “Liebeslieder Polkas” S. 2/4

2007 – Franz Schubert “Mass in G minor” D.167
George F. Handel “Coronation Anthems” #1, #4

2008 – F.J. Haydn “Mass in D minor” (Lord Nelson Mass) (Greenwood SC)
P.D.Q.Bach “Oedipus Tex”

2009 - Gabriel Fauré “Messe Basse”
John Tavener “Svyati”

2010 - J.S.Bach “Mass in G major” BWV 236
Benjamin Britten “Rejoice in the Lamb” Opus 30

2011 - John Rutter “Requiem”

2012 - “Sacred Music for a Sacred Place”
Saint George Greek Orthodox Cathedral

2013 – Gabriel Fauré “Requiem"

2014 – J.S.Bach “Jesu, meine Freude” BWV 227
Johannes Brahms “Alto Rhapsodie”
Shakespeare in music (Rutter, Gawthrop, Berger, Shearing)

2015 – Celebrating 20th anniversary of St.George Greek Orthodox Cathedral
Bruckner, Tallis, Hassler, Stanford, Miskinis, Mealor, Tavener, Kyros, Hogan

2016 – Benjamin Brittin “Hymn to St. Ceceila,” Herbert Howells Requiem,
Brahms Liebeslieder Walzer, Op 52, Mulholland, Debussy, & Sametz

2017 – Carol Barnett “The World Beloved – “A Bluegrass Mass”
Will Todd, Bradley Ellingboe, Eriks Esenvalds, & Craig Johnson

2018 – Eleanor Daley “Requiem”
Bowker, Arnesen, McCullough, Ticheli, King Singers

2019 – Runestad “Come to the woods” and Kiawah Island Concert Series

2020 - Handel Messiah Part 3

2021 – cancelled covid pandemic

2022 – J.S.Bach Mass in B-minor (Westminster Presbyterian Church, Greenville SC)

2023 – J.S.Bach “Jesu, meine Freude” Runestad, Dan Forrest, Will Todd, A.Copland, Kilstofte

2024 – Britten “Hymn to St.Cecilia” Schönberg “Friede auf Erden” Chilcott, “Circle of Life”
Dan Gawthrop new commission