Past Seasons

Celebrate Te Deum’s artistry and the transformative power of choral music at Lumine 2025, the ensemble’s signature fundraising event As Te Deum’s largest annual fundraiser, Lumine provides vital support for our professional singers, allowing us to inspire and enrich our community through compelling and thought-​​provoking performances. Lumine will offer a fusion of music, art, and…

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-​​Night Vigil will be presented in English translation, honoring the work’s profound spiritual and musical legacy. This performance celebrates one of the choral repertoire’s most revered compositions. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first and only English-​​language recording of this masterpiece, made in 1975 by the Orthodox Concert Choir of Los…

An Embodied Encounter: Fusing Sound, Spirit, and Somatic Presence Kansas City artist Carmen Aguilar and Te Deum join forces to present Meyadi Mass, a collaborative musical experience. Conceived by Carmen, this sacred performance creates a space for reflection and connection, inviting the audience to explore the depths of human emotion— gratitude, grief, love, and longing.…

This concert is partially underwritten by Eugene Wilson, in memory of Mary Ann Wilson Carols of Olde invites you on a journey through six centuries of inspiring Christmas carols.  Join Te Deum and organist Dr. Elisa Bickers for a program that bridges the ancient and the modern through English carols from the 15th century to today.…

This concert is partially underwritten by: Leonard & Irene Bettinger Philanthropic Fund at the Jewish Community Foundation, Shalon Fund, and Louis & Frances Swinken Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation Salamone Rossi was a composer ahead of his time, navigating two worlds that rarely intersected. As a celebrated Jewish musician at the Gonzaga court in…

This is a free community offering, tickets are not required. This 40-​​minute service, chanted entirely in Latin by the Tenors and Basses of Te Deum, offers a glimpse into the devotional practices of Christian monks while inviting modern listeners to experience the serenity and spiritual depth of chant. This sacred tradition brings music and prayer…

Parry’s Songs of Farewell & Howell’s Requiem This Memorial Weekend, Te Deum presents a concert of reflection and solace, featuring Hubert Parry’s Songs of Farewell and Herbert Howells’ Requiem, alongside De Profundis and a world premiere of Chorus Angelorum by our composer-​​in-​​residence, Dr. Keane Southard. Written in response to personal loss and the devastating toll…

Music of Randall Thompson, James MacMillan and American Spirituals Experience unforgettable a cappella choral music that searches for and promises peace, featuring Randall Thompson’s iconic masterpiece, “The Peaceable Kingdom.” This profound work vividly captures a vision of peace and unity amidst chaos. James MacMillan’s powerful “Miserere” explores humankind’s culpability for our turbulent times amid a…

Te Deum’s annual Christmas concert, featuring David Lang’s “The Little Match Girl Passion”

Honoring the 500th Birthday of the Renaissance Master

Barber’s Reincarnations and American Composers

Te Deum concludes its 16th season with an exploration of the sacred music for the Feast of Corpus Christi, featuring guest conductor and professor of chant, Antanina Kalechyts. The performance featured music that spanned nearly 800 years and included the second world premiere of the season by composer-​​in-​​residence, Anthony Maglione.

Salve Mundi Salutare, a poem that honors the parts of Christ’s body on the Cross, is explored, longed for, and celebrated in unique ways in the three pieces on this Antiqua series program, in collaboration with Kansas City ensemble Bach Aria Soloist. This concert presented masterworks from Bach, Britten, and Buxtehude.

Lessons and Carols for Today offered a modern twist on the Anglican tradition of interspersing biblical passages with choral and congregational singing. Collaborating with Kansas City poet Natasha Ria El-​​Scari, Natasha will wrote and performed new poetry to replace the traditional biblical lessons, delivering modern reflections on the Nativity story through an African American Feminist…

e Deum launched its 16th season with Truer Words, an exploration of the works of great poets, thinkers, and faith leaders whose words offer comfort, grace, inspiration, understanding, and joy. The great poets included John Donne, King David, Gandhi, Christopher Smart, Michael Dennis Brown, and Mother Teresa; and music by Britten, Burleigh, Parry, Paulus, Bruckner,…

During Monteverdi’s 30 year tenure as Maestro di Cappella of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, he did not publish any sacred choral music until the very end. This single publication, Selva Morale et Spirituali, contains music that Monteverdi chose to represent the very best of his illustrious career. In collaboration with the Kansas City Baroque Consortium,…

The profound spirituality and compositional genius of the 16th century’s treasures were celebrated in works by Tallis, Byrd, Palestrina, Lassus, Josquin, and more. The highest aim for the Renaissance sacred composer was to give the listener a reprieve from daily strife, and offer a peace-​​filled glimpse of heavenly serenity. This concert offered the 21st century…

Meaningful aspects of the season were explored and celebrated by structuring the concert around four different musical settings of one of the most famous Christmas texts, O Magnum Mysterium. Each section explored one of the 4 lines of text – the mystery of this gift, the animals present at the birth, that sacrifice and love…

Combining with the Te Deum Chamber Orchestra and distinguished soloists, Te Deum celebrated its 15th season with Mozart Requiem, a masterpiece work and  showcase of virtuosity and emotion.

Te Deum presented sections of the Orthodox All-​​Night Vigil service and the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, integrating works of the most famous Orthodox composers. “Divine” offered a window into the solemnity of the faith, showcasing the beauty and depth of its spirituality, reinforced by the sounds, smells, and visual icons of the Orthodox Church.

Featuring Kirke Mechem’s “7 Joys of Christmas,” Te Deum’s Christmas concert celebrated the many Joys of the Christmas season, including the times that joy feels out of reach. The program explored themes of Love, Joy, Generosity, and Singing, with included works by Abbie Betinis, Samuel Barber, William Dawson and Kirke Mechem.

As our community, country, and world was shaken to the core by a world-​​wide pandemic, all people have found themselves crying out. There have been cries of pain for the loss of a loved-​​one, cries of loneliness and hurt from isolation, and cries of gratefulness for help from a friend. The Heart Cries Out put music…

Te Deum presented sections of the Orthodox All-​​Night Vigil service and the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, integrating works of the most famous Orthodox composers. “Divine” offered a window into the solemnity of the faith, showcasing the beauty and depth of its spirituality, reinforced by the sounds, smells, and visual icons of the Orthodox Church.

“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…

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…

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.

On the first Sunday in Lent, the solemn six weeks leading to Easter, Te Deum presented Victoria’s Maundy Thursday and Good Friday Lamentations in the beautiful acoustics and serene atmosphere of Our Lady of Sorrows. The chants woven throughout the concert were a special aspect of this performance. Te Deum brought in the world’s foremost expert on performing…

Te Deum presented an exciting and engaging version of its now annual “Peace and Joy” concert. This season’s concerts focused on two of the season’s most important themes, music of peace and joy, and also gave special attention to local Kansas City composers. The concert featured world premieres by composers Ed Frazier Davis and Geoff Wilcken…

“Be a Blessing” paired a Beatitude with a non-​​biblical text that illuminates the humanistic values of the scripture, inspiring listeners to be generous and caring citizens, regardless of faith background. The universality of goodness is demonstrated in ways that are inclusive and enlivening, with texts from Thoreau, British Philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue, and even courtroom testimony. The primary…

Te Deum wrapped up its 11th season with a program of some of the 20th century’s most notable composers. Focusing on familiar music designed for the warm of acoustics of the world’s greatest cathedral, the audience experienced a cappella classics by Byrd, Barber, Britten, Mendelssohn, Stanford, Rachmaninoff and more.

n 17th century Italy, opportunities for women to sing in public were prohibited in many spheres of daily life. But within the inner walls of the convent, cloistered nuns could raise their voices in musical praise to their Maker. For this concert, the women of Te Deum Antiqua with Jan Kraybill playing continuo explored the…

This was Te Deum’s first Christmas-​​season concert – done Te Deum’s way. Audiences experienced a thoughtfully planned selection of a cappella gems that are fresh, festive and beyond the seasonal standards. The program included fresh settings of carols by Jocelyn Hagen, Susan LaBarr, and Sofia Söderberg, as well as works by Walton, Poulenc, Tavener, and…

Te Deum paid tribute to the centennial of legendary composer/​​conductor Leonard Bernstein with a presentation of “Chichester Psalms.” Two world premieres also were on the program. The first was a setting of text from the Torah by Kansas City composer Stewart Duncan, commissioned as a gift in memory of Carol Lynn Stockton, a longtime vocal…

Te Deum Chamber Choir offered a choral reflection for the Lenten season with James MacMillan’s virtuosic masterpiece depicting the crucified Christ’s final utterances. Commissioned by BBC Television in 1994, it was first heard in seven nightly episodes broadcast for English audiences during that year’s Holy Week, and has been described by reviewers as “mesmerizing” and…

Te Deum Chamber Choir put the exclamation point on its 10th season with a program that showcased wide-​​ranging repertoire for choir and organ. The program included William Walton’s The Twelve, James MacMillan’s Te Deum, and works by Tavener, Pärt, McDowell, and Dove. Concluding the concert was a commissioned piece by award-​​winning German composer Ingrid Stölzel,…

It was against the law to be Catholic in Elizabethan England, so William Byrd composed Masses in secret. He composed a series of three Catholic Masses between 1592 and 1595, secretly presented in private homes to evade the possibility of imprisonment for treason. Byrd’s deeply personal and devout Masses represent a remarkable portrait of faith…