Announcing the 2022–2023 Concert Season at Duke Chapel
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Music at Duke Chapel 2022–2023
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Music at Duke Chapel 2022–2023
The 2022–2023 Duke Chapel concert season presents a year of choral concerts, organ recitals, and more, featuring beloved traditions such as Handel's Messiah as well as world premieres and new guest artists.
In introducing the series, Chapel Dean Luke A. Powery and Music Director Zebulon M. Highben said, "Our Music at Duke Chapel concert season will resound with songs praising God’s goodness and reiterating the church’s desire for a more just world."
See the full concert schedule.
The season begins with settings of the Magnificat, with its prophetic reminders of God’s justice, featured in the Bach Cantata program on September 18. The theme of justice and praise continues in a concert by the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers, Jazz Vespers services, and a Lenten program of Black spirituals and German chorales. The spring oratorio brings the theme to its culmination with Franz Joseph Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis (“Mass for Troubled Times”), and the world premiere of a new setting of Martín Espada’s poem “Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World” for choir, carillon, and orchestra.
The season also features perennial favorites such as Messiah and the organ recital series, as well as the myriad worship services led by the Chapel’s marvelous choirs, organists, and guest musicians.