Clarion Upcoming Engagements

The Clarion Orchestra at BAM We're delighted to announce that The Clarion Orchestra will be performing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Jonathan Miller's renowned staging of Bach's St. Matthew Passion this April. The Clarion Orchestra will play under the expert direction of British early-music specialist Paul Goodwin in what the New York Observer called "the most exhilarating [and] most important musical and dramatic event to be seen hereabouts in some time…the greatest piece of sacred music ever composed has been made new again." Performances will take place on April 17, 18, 21, 22, 24 and 25, 2009 at 7:30pm. Tickets can be purchased at tickets@BAM.org / 718.636.4100 x1. more events

The recently revived Clarion Music Society is considered to be one of the East Coast's leading period-instrument orchestras. Clarion was founded in 1957 by conductor and musicologist Newell Jenkins, first performing on modern instruments and shortly thereafter becoming the first orchestra in New York to lead a series of concerts on Baroque instruments. During Jenkins' 40 years at the helm, Clarion became known in particular for its thrilling performances of lesser-known 17th and 18th-century music, presenting more than 70 world premieres of lost, unpublished works from the Baroque, Classical, and early Romantic periods. In 2001, not long after the death of Newell Jenkins, Clarion's concert series went on hiatus until, in 2006, the Directors of Clarion selected Steven Fox to revive the series as Artistic Director and Conductor.

In his first two seasons, Mr. Fox has re-established Clarion as one of the foremost Early Music groups in the United States. He has led the orchestra and the Society's renowned choir in performances at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Morgan Library, the Aston Magna Festival, and St. Ignatius Loyola in conjunction with the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series. Under Fox's direction, Clarion has received strong critical attention in The New York Times, The New Yorker, BBC Music Magazine, Musical America, and the American Record Guide. Clarion has also recently drawn international interest, having been invited to give a series of concerts at London's acclaimed Kings Place in the 2010-11 season as well as a concert tour in cities along the Rhine in 2010.
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