March 26, 2025

Voices Chorale NJ Performs at Trinity

MOZART AND MORE: David A. McConnell conducts Voices Chorale NJ and the Berks Sinfonietta in the Mozart “Requiem” and the “Requiem” by Brazilian composer Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia on May 3.

On Saturday, May 3 at 4 p.m., two settings of the Requiem Mass will be presented by Voices Chorale NJ. David A. McConnell, artistic director of Voices, conducts.

Mozart’s Requiem was incomplete when he died in 1791. Garcia completed his Requiem in 1816 after being inspired by Mozart’s masterpiece. Both works will be accompanied at the May program by the 21-piece Berks Sinfonietta Orchestra.

The concert will feature a 1991 completion of the Mozart work by scholar Robert Levin. To help audience members appreciate the piece, a pre-concert talk will be presented by McConnell at 3:15 p.m.

McConnell founded Vox Philia in 2012 and co-founded the Berks Sinfonietta chamber orchestra in 2014. Both feature an intergenerational approach to music. McConnell teaches at Penn State University Berks Campus, and Alvernia University in Reading, Pa.

Tickets and information are available at VoicesChoraleNJ.org.