David Hayes Participates in the Chorus America Choral-Orchestral Conducting Academy
Chorus America’s Choral-Orchestral Conducting Academy gives choral conductors a unique opportunity to develop choral-orchestral skills and enhance their university training. During this week-long program, participating conductors will have the opportunity to study one-on-one with expert faculty and conduct choral-orchestral repertoire. The Academy culminates with a final performance in Meng...
David Hayes Conducts the New York Choral Society and Orchestra – A Knee on the Neck
The New York Choral Society presents A Knee on the Neck, a concert that pairs two cantatas that bring our attention to the devastating pain of injustice and conflict in a program that call us to come together with a collective resolve for justice, freedom, and peace. Featuring the...
Our Voices-Angel of Light
Angel of Light, the newest installment of NYCHORAL’s Our Voices features a performance of passages from composer Kevin Siegfried’s new cantata Angel of Light in collaboration with acclaimed filmmaker Tânia Cypriano. Angel of Light continues our exploration of reimagined performances of choral music with innovative collaborative digital performances of...
David Hayes Conducts for Kosovo’s 15th Anniversary Independence Celebrations
Photos courtesy Kosovo Philharmonic/Christopher Hyland In February 2023, David Hayes traveled to Pristina, Kosovo to conduct Joseph Vella’s Hyland Mass, Opus 130 with the Kosovo Philharmonic. It was commissioned by New Yorker, Christopher Hyland, in 2013 as a call to peace and unity for people throughout the world. Written...
Serenades Choral 2023
In June 2023 David Hayes returns to Serenades Choral Travel for the 8th time as guest conductor, this time in Puglia, Italy. https://www.serenadeschoral.com/2023repertoire Concerts will be performed in the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta in Conversano, Cathedral Maria Santissima della Madia in Monopoli, and the Basilica’s of SS. Cosmas...
David Hayes Conducts the Mannes Orchestra
Led by David Hayes, the Mannes Orchestra returns to Alice Tully Hall in a concert featuring a symphonic world premiere by Adolphus Hailstork, a New York premiere by Zhou Tian, a New York premiere by Jennifer Higdon featuring Valerie Coleman, and the second-ever public performance of the long-lost and...
David Hayes Conducts the Mannes Orchestra
Marion Bauer – Sun Splendor Zhou Tian – Concerto for Orchestra (New York Premiere) Adolphus Hailstork – Symphony No. 4 (World Premiere)...
NYCHORAL Presents Duke Ellington – The Best of the Sacred Concerts
The New York Choral Society presents a historic staging of Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts. “This music is the most important thing I’ve ever done or am ever likely to do. This is personal, not career. Now I can say out loud to all the world what I’ve been saying...
NYCHORAL Presents Duke Ellington – The Best of the Sacred Concerts
The New York Choral Society presents a historic staging of Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts. “This music is the most important thing I’ve ever done or am ever likely to do. This is personal, not career. Now I can say out loud to all the world what I’ve been saying...
Indiana University Symphony Orchestra (David Hayes, Guest Conductor)
Nkeiru Okoye: Voices Shouting Out (2001-02) Sarah Kirkland Snider: Something for the Dark (2015) Dvořák: Symphony No.7 in D Minor, Op.70 (1885)...