2025-2026 Season Press Photos

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Sarojini

  • Nirmala Rajasekar sits playing the veena, a plucked string instrument. Photo Credit: ReyMash Photography
    Nirmala Rajasekar playing the veena, a plucked string instrument. Photo Credit: ReyMash Photography
  • Thanjavur K. Murugaboopathi sits playing the mridangam, a South Indian hand drum. Photo Credit: ReyMash Photography
    Thanjavur K. Murugaboopathi playing the mridangam, a South Indian hand drum. Photo Credit: ReyMash Photography
  • Shruthi Rajasekar wearing a black floral top sits holding a pencil and a notebook. Photo Credit: Roscoe Rutter
    Shruthi Rajasekar. Photo Credit: Roscoe Rutter
  • Members of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra wearing black, sitting, playing their instruments, with black music stands.
    Members of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
  • Members of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra wearing black, sitting, playing their instruments, with black music stands.
    Members of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
  • Person in black tuxedo holding a baton..
    Steven Amundson, conductor of Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
  • VocalEssence Chorus members wearing black pose for a photo. Photo Credit: Bruce Silcox
    VocalEssence Chorus, Photo Credit: Bruce Silcox
  • VocalEssence Ensemble Singers wearing black pose for a photo. Photo Credit: Bruce Silcox
    VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Photo Credit: Bruce Silcox

Ensemble Singers Featuring Roderick Williams

  • Roderick Williams and Philip Brunelle smiling and wearing dark colored suits shake hands in front of VocalEssence Ensemble Singers wearing black and standing in front of an audience at a church at Three Choirs Festival. Photo Credit: Joseph Wong
    Roderick Williams and Philip Brunelle in front of VocalEssence Ensemble Singers after their performance at the Three Choirs Festival. Photo Credit: Joseph Wong
  • Philip Brunelle, wearing dark colored suits, conducts the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers wearing black holding folders and singing in front of an audience at a church at Three Choirs Festival. Photo Credit: Joseph Wong
    Philip Brunelle conducts the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers at their performance at the Three Choirs Festival. Photo Credit: Joseph Wong
  • VocalEssence Ensemble Singers wearing black perform while clapping their hands with joyful expressions. Photo Credit: Bruce Silcox
    VocalEssence Ensemble Singers performing. Photo Credit: Bruce Silcox
  • Roderick Williams, wearing a black button down shirt and a dark blazer with a full smile stands in front of a brick wall with trees in the background. Photo Credit: Theo Williams
    Roderick Williams. Photo Credit: Theo Williams
  • VocalEssence Ensemble Singers wearing black perform. Photo Credit: Bruce Silcox
    VocalEssence Ensemble Singers performing. Photo Credit: Bruce Silcox
  • VocalEssence Ensemble Singers wearing black perform. Photo Credit: Bruce Silcox
    VocalEssence Ensemble Singers performing. Photo Credit: Bruce Silcox
  • VocalEssence Ensemble Singers wearing black perform with joyful expressions. Photo Credit: Bruce Silcox
    VocalEssence Ensemble Singers performing. Photo Credit: Bruce Silcox
  • People dressed in black and holding black folders standing on risers in front of a paneled wall with a conductor leading them perform in front of an audience.
    VocalEssence Ensemble Singers perform. Photo Credit: Bruce Silcox
  • Philip Brunelle conducting, Photo Credit: Katie Jeanne Photography
    Philip Brunelle, Photo Credit: Katie Jeanne Photography

Welcome Christmas 2025

  • Person in black tuxedo conducting.
    Philip Brunelle conducts at Northrop. Photo Credit: Tony Nelson Photography
  • Person in black suit conducting.
    G. Phillip Shoultz, III conducts at Northrop, Photo Credit: Tony Nelson Photography
  • Person in black tuxedo conducting singers wearing black clothes and multicolored scarves holding black folders perform on stage.
    Philip Brunelle conducts at Northrop. Photo Credit: Anna Min
  • Two people sitting at an organ with timpani and another person to the left.
    Northrop's Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ in action. Photo Credit: Anna Min
  • Singers wearing black clothes and multicolored scarves holding black folders perform.
    Members of the VocalEssence Chorus performing at Northrop, Photo Credit: Tony Nelson Photography
  • Person in black tuxedo conducting singers wearing black clothes and multicolored scarves holding black folders perform on stage.
    Philip Brunelle conducts the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers at Northrop, Photo Credit: Tony Nelson Photography
  • People wearing red and white Santa hats holding black folders and singing.
    VocalEssence Singers Of This Age perform carols in Northrop Lobby. Photo Credit: Anna Min
  • Person in black suit playing piano with singers wearing black and multicolored scarves singing.
    G. Phillip Shoultz, III at the piano with VocalEssence Singers Of This Age performing at Northrop, Photo Credit: Tony Nelson Photography
  • Musicians wearing black play brass instruments.
    Brass Players Perform, Photo Credit: Anna Min
  • Singers wearing black clothes and multicolored scarves holding black folders perform.
    VocalEssence Singers Of This Age performing at Northrop, Photo Credit: Tony Nelson Photography
  • Person in black conducting singers wearing black clothes and multicolored scarves holding black folders perform on stage decorated with poinsettias.
    G. Phillip Shoultz, III conducts VocalEssence singers. Photo Credit: Anna Min
  • Singers wearing black clothes and multicolored scarves holding black folders perform.
    Members of the VocalEssence Chorus and Ensemble Singers perform at Northrop. Photo Credit: Anna Min

An Afternoon with John Rutter

  • John Rutter, wearing a red sweater vest over a checkered shirt, is smiling as he sits and plays the piano which has notebooks, pens, and sheet music. Photo credit: Unknown
  • Person with glasses wearing a tuxedo smiles at the camera.
  • Person wearing a black suit conducts singers and orchestra wearing black. Photo credit: Bruce Silcox
  • Person wearing a black suit conducts singers and orchestra wearing black. Photo credit: Bruce Silcox
  • Many singers perform in front of an audience in the ornate sanctuary of the Cathedral of Saint Paul that features a baldachin with black and gold marble columns that has a bronze latticework canopy. Photo Credit: Bruce Silcox
  • Person wearing a black suit conducts singers and orchestra wearing black. Photo credit: Bruce Silcox
  • Person wearing black suit with arms outstretched stands in front of singers and orchestra in front of an audience in the ornate sanctuary of the Cathedral of Saint Paul. Photo Credit: Bruce Silcox
  • VocalEssence Chorus members wearing black pose for a photo in the lobby of a building with windows and stairs with gold railing. Photo Credit: Novart Media
  • VocalEssence Ensemble Singers wearing black pose for a photo in the lobby of a building with windows and stairs with gold railing. Photo Credit: Novart Media

WITNESS: Symphony of Spirituals

  • VocalEssence singers wearing black with multicolored stoles perform while holding their arms forward on stage for the annual WITNESS concert. Photo Credit: Kyndell Harkness
    WITNESS: Symphony of Spirituals
  • VocalEssence singers wearing black and multicolored stoles perform on stage for the annual WITNESS concert. Photo Credit: Kyndell Harkness
  • Singers wearing dark clothes with multicolored stoles sing.
    VocalEssence Singers perform at WITNESS. Photo Credit: Kyndell Harkness
  • Singers wearing dark clothes with multicolored stoles sing with their hands reaching out.
    VocalEssence Singers perform at WITNESS. Photo Credit: Kyndell Harkness
  • Singers wearing dark clothes with a gold pattern sing with their hands reaching out on the shoulders of the singer next to them.
    Members of VocalEssence Singers Of This Age perform at WITNESS. Photo Credit: Kyndell Harkness
  • Conductor wearing black holds out hands in front of VocalEssence Singers wearing stoles. Photo Credit: Kyndell Harkness
    G. Phillip Shoultz, III and VocalEssence Singers, Photo Credit: Kyndell Harkness
  • Singers wearing dark clothes with multicolored stoles sing with their hands reaching out.
    VocalEssence Singers perform at WITNESS. Photo Credit: Kyndell Harkness
  • Singers wearing dark clothes with multicolored stoles sing.
    VocalEssence Singers perform at WITNESS. Photo Credit: Kyndell Harkness
  • Person wearing a dark blue button down shirt and dark suit coat with hands reaching out and singing.
    G. Phillip Shoultz, III sings. Photo Credit: Lisa Miller
  • Singers wearing dark clothes with a gold pattern sing with their hands reaching out.
    VocalEssence Singers perform at WITNESS. Photo Credit: Kyndell Harkness