Concerts
Cor Mundi’s Premiere Season
Welcome to Cor Mundi’s Premiere Season (2025-26) featuring the inaugural performances of the brand new Cor Mundi Chamber Choir. Updates are Coming Soon!
Sacred Echoes
Step into a luminous world of sound where ancient chant and contemporary harmony meet. Sacred Echoes invites you to experience the reverberation of sacred music across centuries—in beauty, stillness, and wonder that opens the heart to timeless mystery. Come join us for this debut of the brand new Cor Mundi Chamber Choir.
This Wondrous Child
Enter into the wonder of Christmas through music that glows with tenderness and joy. This Wondrous Child offers an experience of quiet awe and festive warmth, with carols and compositions performed by the Cor Mundi Chamber Choir, soloists, and organist Dr. Yuri McCoy.
After Motets
What might the past sound like through the ears of today? After Motets invites you into a conversation across centuries, as composer Daniel Knaggs responds to Renaissance masterpieces with new motets written “after” or “in response” to them. The result is a rich tapestry of reflection and reimagining sung here by the Cor Mundi Chamber Choir.
The Soul’s Ascent
Journey through sound toward the light. The Soul’s Ascent leads us from grief to glory, with soaring music by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Olivier Messiaen. Come experience the ache of longing, the fire of hope, and a pathway from sorrow to serenity in moving performances by various singers and instrumentalists.
Past Concerts
Below are descriptions of some of Cor Mundi’s past concerts.
This Side of Heaven
An unforgettable evening where renowned masterpieces intertwine with rare gems to illuminate the profound mysteries of life, death, and what lies beyond. The program weaves together evocative works like Puccini’s Morire and Salve Regina, Verdi’s Ad una stella and Confutatis Maledictis (Requiem) and Knaggs’s Alla luna and Ave Maria No. 20 (newly arranged). Outstanding singers Caitlin Aloia, Lauren Sanders, Demetrious Sampson, and Kellen Schrimper combine with both Lyndsi Maus and Daniel Knaggs at the piano in this concert journeying from "this side of heaven" to beyond. Join us for a night where every note speaks to the range and depth of the human experience.
Dante e la Donna
This concert traces a journey from earthly to divine love through Italian-language music inspired by Dante. Featuring the world premiere of Dante Songs and the North American premiere of Zita di Lucca, a chamber opera on St. Zita, the program culminates in Marian works for organ and voices, including the latest addition to Knaggs’s 50-Year Ave Maria Project. Each piece invites listeners closer to the love Dante called “the fixed destination of the eternal plan.”
After Motets (Poland)
In 2022, Ensemble Invocatio performed a program of Knaggs’s After Motets along with his Ave Maria No. 18 “Queen of Peace” (written in Ukrainian) in Warsaw, Bydgoszcz, and Toruń, Poland.
Two Streams (Poland)
Two Streams was commissioned by the Musica Vera Festival in Torun, Poland. In 2021, Knaggs conducts Capella Bydgostiensis and Schola Cantorum Toruniensis in the world premiere of its Polish-language version (Dwa Zdroje).
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