The St. Charles Singers, led by founder and music director Jeffrey Hunt, will offer the penultimate installment of its milestone, multi-season Mozart Journey project in concerts April 9 and 10, 2022, in St. Charles, Illinois, featuring four of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s rarely heard sacred choral works.
Guest soloist is soprano Michelle Areyzaga, a former St. Charles Singers ensemble member who has achieved success as an opera, concert, and recital artist.
The acclaimed chamber choir’s Mozart Journey XVI program, with the Metropolis Orchestra, is the penultimate destination in its decade-long voyage through the beloved classical composer’s complete sacred choral works, few of which are ever heard live in concert.
“Many listeners find Mozart’s sacred choral music as thrilling and satisfying as his operas, symphonies, and chamber works, yet most of this music remains neglected,” Hunt says.
“Our Mozart Journey has provided the only opportunity that Chicago-area audiences will likely ever have to hear many of these works in person, and with the orchestral accompaniment that Mozart specified,” Hunt says.
“This is especially true of our April concerts,” he adds.
The program offers Mozart’s “Tantum Ergo” in D Major, K. 197; Missa brevis in G Major, K. 140; “Two German Hymns,” K. 343; and Missa solemnis in C Minor, “Waisenhaus,” K. 139.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 9, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 10, at Baker Memorial United Methodist Church, 307 Cedar Avenue, St. Charles.
