2020–21 Season

“Brahms Requiem” is Te Deum’s first virtual concert, a rebroadcast of our award-​winning, previously recorded live performance from April 2016. This performance features pianists Jan Kraybill and Elisa Bickers, baritone Brian Ming Chu, soprano Ida Nicolosi, and Te Deum. The concert begins with an organ solo by Dr. Bickers, newly recorded for this concert, and also includes the original introduction given by Mark Ball, who brings a special poignancy and emotional context to the work. 

Te Deum’s 3rd annual Christmas concert was designed to thoughtfully reflect on the warmth of the Holiday season. At Peace and Joy, audiences heard Te Deum like never before. This online livestream featured newly recorded music for 2020, and the concert was more intimate than ever as Te Deum divided into two 12-​voice ensembles to rehearse and record new, meaningful pieces for the Christmas season. 

Te Deum and the Kansas City Baroque Consortium presented some of the Baroque era’s most profound music for Passiontide (the week leading up to Easter). The concert included J.S. Bach’s Cantata 182 Himmelskӧnig, sei willkommen (King of Heaven, welcome), and Heinrich Schütz’s Die Sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz (The seven last words of Jesus Christ on the Cross). 

Featuring GRAMMY nominee Jan Kraybill on the organ and local gospel recording artist Isaac Cates, Te Deum’s final concert of the 13th season explored a broad range of repertoire for organ and choir. Hope was the central theme of King of Instruments, a theme mirrored in life as we anticipated the end of the pandemic.