O Vos Omnes: Music for Lent and Holy Week
O Vos Omnes: Music for Lent and Holy Week
Manufacturer Description
Kent Tritle is one of America's leading choral conductors. He is founder and Music Director of Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, the acclaimed concert series at St. Ignatius Loyola; Music Director of the Oratorio Society of New York and of Musica Sacra; Director of Choral Activities at the Manhattan School of Music; and a member of the graduate faculty of The Juilliard School. An acclaimed organ virtuoso, Tritle is also the organist of the New York Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra. In his 22 years of presenting concerts on the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series, Mr. Tritle has conducted the Choir and Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola in a broad repertoire of sacred works, from Renaissance masses and oratorio masterworks to premieres by notable living composers. As the Director of Music Ministries at St. Ignatius Loyola, Tritle oversees a program that annually produces more than 400 services with music. Since his appointment there in 1989, he has led the church's professional choir in critically acclaimed performances and developed the 50-voice volunteer Parish Community Choir. Kent Tritle has made more than a dozen recordings on the Telarc, AMDG, Epiphany, Gothic, VAI and MSR Classics labels, many of which have received high praise in Gramophone, American Record Guide and The Choral Journal. Mr. Tritle holds degrees from The Juilliard School in organ performance and choral conducting and has been on the Juilliard faculty since 1996. He is currently teaching choral conducting, and directing a graduate practicum on oratorio in collaboration with the school s Vocal Arts Department.
Key Product Details
- Artist: Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola
- Genre: Classical / Symphonies