Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation (MMPAF)

04/22/2025

Paolo Bordignon returns after last year’s sold-out concert with a harpsichord recital featuring both solo works and ensemble collaborations on period instruments.
Repertoire includes Bach’s Italian Concerto, his Concerto in D Minor, and other works by Byrd, Couperin and Duphly.
🗓 May 13 | 7:30 PM
📍 St. Bartholomew’s Chapel
🎟 $25 / $75 Angel Seating

https://www.onthestage.tickets/show/mid-manhattan-performing-arts-foundation-mmpaf/66e22f678f494215a6ac0eb2

04/18/2025

Back by popular demand!
Following last year’s sold-out performance, Paolo Bordignon returns with a harpsichord recital featuring solo works and ensemble pieces on period instruments.
Enjoy gems from the golden age of the French Clavecinistes, plus Bach’s Italian Concerto and Concerto in D Minor.
📍 St. Bartholomew’s Chapel
🗓 Tuesday, May 13 | 7:30 PM
🎟 Tickets: $25 / $75 Angel Seating

https://www.onthestage.tickets/show/mid-manhattan-performing-arts-foundation-mmpaf/66e22f678f494215a6ac0eb2

04/14/2025

Tonight, hear Alexander Pattavina perform Franck’s Trois Chorals and other pieces on St. Bart’s historic 12,422 pipe Aeolian-Skinner organ.
Monday, April 14 at 6:00 pm
A $20 donation is requested.

04/10/2025

Hear Alexander Pattavina perform Franck’s Trois Chorals and other pieces on St. Bart’s historic 12,422 pipe Aeolian-Skinner organ.
Monday, April 14 at 6:00 pm
A $20 donation is requested.

04/03/2025

César Franck (1822-1890) was in the process of writing the Trois Chorals before hitting his head in a collision while riding in a horse-drawn buggy. Although he seemed fine initially, he slowly began feeling the adverse effects. Suspecting that his injury gave him only months to live, he finished the pieces but never saw them published. Come hear Franck’s final musical testament as well as other pieces performed by Alexander Pattavina on the historic Aeolian-Skinner organ at St. Bart’s. Monday, April 14 at 6:00 pm. A $20 donation is requested.

03/30/2025

The Apple Hill String Quartet is back in the Chapel this afternoon! Gretchen Pusch will be a guest artist

For tickets, go to mmpaf.org

03/28/2025

***New Hampshire meets New York city! ***

Sunday, March 30 at 2:30 PM
The Chapel at St. Bartholomew’s Church
Apple Hill String Quartet
Gretchen Pusch, flute

The quartet will perform works by composers Meredith Monk and Kian Ravaei. Kian Ravaei will be there to introduce his work. Flutist Gretchen Pusch will join the quartet to perform a quintet by Amy Beach, a longtime St. Bartholomew’s parishioner who wrote for the choir in the early 20th century.

Join us in The Chapel for this beautifully curated program. For tickets, go to mmpaf.org.

03/25/2025

The Apple Hill String Quartet returns!

Sunday, March 30 at 2:30 PM
The Chapel at St. Bartholomew’s Church
Apple Hill String Quartet
Gretchen Pusch, flute

Join us for this beautifully curated program at the Chapel at St. Barts. Kian Ravaei will be there to introduce his piece. Tickets are on sale now at mmpaf.org.

03/18/2025

A moment for New York History

Amy Beach, the first large-scale successful American female composer lived in New York City from 1930 until her death in 1944. During that time, she was the composer-in-residence at St. Barts, though her music had been played at the church for 20 years before, attributed to “H.H.A. Beach.”

Travel back in time to hear Amy Beach played at St. Barts once again by the Apple Hill String Quartet with Gretchen Pusch, flute on Sunday, March 30, 2025.

$25 ($15 for students and seniors), link in bio!

02/06/2025

Swipe to see the performers!✨

Next week’s recital, Ophelia, features sopranos Zoe Allen and Olivia Greene, with pianist Christopher Allen.

Join us Tuesday, February 11th at 7:30pm for a Valentine’s themed program you won’t soon forget 🌹💔

Will we see you there? Get your tickets now at MMPAF.org (link in bio)

01/29/2025

Ophelia ✨

7:30 PM
The Chapel at St. Bartholomew’s Church
Zoe Allen & Olivia Greene, sopranos
Christopher Allen, piano

Ophelia, the tragic heroine from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, has captivated artists for centuries becoming a symbol of beauty, innocence, and melancholy. Painters, composers, and writers have depicted her ethereal presence in forms ranging from delicate to haunting. Her story of love, madness, and death continues to inspire deep emotions, making her a timeless muse. To celebrate St. Valentine, sopranos Zoe Allen and Olivia Greene with pianist Christopher Allen present a program dedicated to Ophelia, featuring music from Saint-Saëns and Strauss to contemporary interpretations that explore her enduring legacy.

Join us in two weeks for this beautiful recital! Tickets at MMPAF.org!

01/23/2025

TOMORROW ✨

American Symphony Orchestra
Bard Festival Chorale
James Bagwell, Music Director of the Bard Festival Chorale
Leon Botstein, Music Director

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788), the fifth child of Johann Sebastian Bach, was an influential composer working at the time of transition between the elder Bach’s Baroque style and Classical style that followed it. The A*O performs the US premieres of two of his oratorios: Heilig ist Gott, H.778 and Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu, H.777.

Pre-concert lecture at 7 pm ✨ Concert at 8 pm

$25-$45 Tickets at www.AmericanSymphony.org

12/27/2024

✨Ring in the new year with a fun and festive concert at 11 pm, followed by a champagne reception at the stroke of midnight. With over 12,000 pipes sounding into the resplendent nave from both sides of the chancel, the rear gallery, and even above in the dome, the dynamic range and vast color palette of the Æolian- Skinner organ at St. Bartholomew’s is an experience to behold in person.✨

$20 suggested donation: click here. No tickets are required. More info MMPAF.com

Great Music is produced by the Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation, which exists to cultivate, promote, and sponsor the performing arts at St. Bartholomew’s Church, a treasured masterpiece of architecture in Midtown Manhattan. ✨

12/12/2024

Deck the halls with bows of……plaid?

Another year of our festive dress rehearsal tradition! We‘re ready to present our✨Joyous Christmas Concert ✨ tomorrow night, December 13th, at 7:30pm!

Get your tickets now at MMPAF.org!! 🎄

12/06/2024

Join us NEXT FRIDAY to see the St. Bartholomew’s Choir (and the whole Church!) all dressed up and filled with holiday cheer! ✨✨✨

The Joyous Christmas Concert is December 13th at 7:30pm. Tickets available at MMPAF.org 🎄

11/24/2024

It’s that time of year! Join us for our….

✨Joyous Christmas Concert✨

Outside of the choir stalls, members of the St. Bartholomew’s Choir are often heard at many of the city’s most prestigious venues ranging from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to Broadway stages and New York’s finest jazz clubs. Hear them celebrate the holiday season in our beautiful sanctuary with beloved traditional carols as well as festive new arrangements of sacred and secular Christmas favorites, all accompanied on our famed pipe organ.

Tickets: $100 (Angel), $50, $30

Get your ticket now at MMPAF.org ✨