Transfigured Nights

Don't miss our final Art Music concert this Monday (tomorrow!), May 18th at 7:30 pm in the Performance Hall at the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration!

Enjoy delicious, homemade treats during intermission and connect with other arts-loving concert goers, then stick around after for a chance to speak with the artists directly.

As always, this incredible music offering by these talented artists is FREE of charge, courtesy of the wonderful patronage of our supporters. (We thank you!)

We encourage you to arrive early, since the Performance Hall continues to reach capacity for these concerts. (A wonderful problem to have!)

We look forward to seeing you on Monday!

PROGRAM
Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 1/3 | Beethoven
Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 87 | Dvořák

PERFORMERS
Maria Schleuning, violin
Matthew Sinno, viola
Gayane Manasjan Fullford, cello
Ishan Wang, piano

Join us for a celebration of twenty-two years of choral singing under the direction of Joel Martinson!

This Sunday, May 3, the Transfiguration Choir, soloists, and orchestra will present Joseph Haydn’s Missa Cellensis in C in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

This rarely performed “cantata mass” composed in 1766, is a tour de force for strings, winds, chorus, and vocal soloists. The 50-voice Transfiguration Choir will be joined by a 24-piece orchestra under concertmaster Kristin Van Cleve, and soloists Elizabeth McGee, soprano, Erin Roth Thomas, alto, Eric Lewis, tenor, and Connor Lidell, bass.

The musicians will perform from the altar platform and floor in the front of the church, so the audience will have a great view, as well as the unique opportunity to hear the full resources of choir and orchestra in our new acoustical environment.

Transfigured Nights presents this performance in thanks to you, our patrons, and to all of our supporters since we began in the Fall of 2004.

This Festival Concert is FREE of admission and open to all.

PROGRAM
Missa Celensis in C Major Hob. XXII:5 | Joseph Haydn

WHEN
Sunday, May 3 | 7 pm
FREE Admission

WHERE
Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration
14115 Hillcrest Road, Dallas

Ready for a musical treat? Join us tonight for the third Art Music concert of the 2025-2026 Transfigured Nights series.

If you’re looking for divine music by world-class musicians in an intimate setting, just as it was meant to be heard, you’ll want to attend!

And enjoy delicious, homemade treats during intermission with an opportunity to connect with other arts-loving concert goers, and stick around after for a chance to speak with the artists directly.

We encourage you to arrive early, as the Performance Hall continues to reach capacity for these concerts.

Monday, March 16, 2026 | 7:30 p.m.
Performance Hall | Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration
Dallas | Hillcrest/Spring Valley

PROGRAM
Three Pieces for Cello & Piano (1914) | Nadia Boulanger
Lunaris for Violin & Piano (2024) | Jonathan Cziner
Piano Trio in G minor, Opus 8 (1829) | Frédéric Chopin

PERFORMERS
Maria Schleuning, violin
Gayane Manasjan Fullford, cello
Liudmila Georgievskaya, piano

Join us Sunday, March 1 at 7:00 pm for an evening of organ music presented by Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration Artist in Residence, Dr. Jonathan M. Gregoire.

This program explores the depth and architectural beauty of the German organ sonata tradition. From the clarity of Baroque counterpoint to the bold colors of Romantic and modern sonatas, the evening traces a lineage of sound shaped by resonance, structure, and spirit.

Our Transfigured Nights season is Renewal and Resonance. The sanctuary’s refined acoustics from the recent renovations allow the organ to speak with extraordinary warmth and presence, and this music really comes to life in a satisfying and immersive way.

Program:
Organ Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 65 | F. Mendelssohn
Trio Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, BWV 528 | J.S. Bach
Organ Sonata in A Minor, Wq 70/4, H. 85 | C.P.E. Bach
Organ Sonata No. 3 (1937) | P. Hindemith
Organ Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 11, No. 3 | A.G. Ritter

A reception will follow the recital. We hope you will join us for this evening of music!

Back by audience demand...and this year it's even better!

Last season, the Wind Quintet's concert was in the Performance Hall while our Sanctuary was under renovation. This time, they return to perform in the Sanctuary, with our beautifully enhanced acoustics that finally give these instruments the room and resonance they deserve.

As Willa Henigman (oboist, Dallas Symphony Orchestra) shared in our conversation, the new Sanctuary lets the sound breathe, bloom, and support the musicians in a way that completely changes the experience.

On the program:
• Amy Beach – Pastoral, a luminous, nature-inspired work shaped by her time at the MacDowell artist colony
• Eric Ewazen – Roaring Fork Quintet, a vivid musical portrait of the Colorado river valley
• Oscar Navarro – Juego de Ladrones (Game of Thieves), a thrilling, story-driven Spanish work inspired by Cervantes, full of drama, chase scenes, and color

This is the first full chamber music concert in our newly renovated Sanctuary, and it’s the perfect way to experience what this space can do.

📍 Wind Quintet Concert
🗓 Sunday, January 18
⏰ 7:00 pm
📌 Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, Dallas

The full Behind the Music conversation with Willa is in the comments. If you want a deeper look at the stories behind the music and what makes this program special, it’s well worth watching.

We can’t wait to welcome you into the Sanctuary for free, not-to-be missed event!

🎶 Advent Lessons & Carols | This Sunday at Transfiguration! 🎶

Join us this Sunday, December 7 at 5 PM as the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration hosts Ascension and St. Thomas the Apostle for a cherished tradition of scripture and song for the Advent season.

Featuring:
✨ Choral works sung by the combined choirs of the three parishes and the Transfiguration Choir alone
✨ Congregational hymns and carols
✨ Readings shared by members of each parish community
✨ A festive reception with home-baked holiday treats following in Roper Hall

🎵 Choir Carols & Motets
Rorate Caeli – arr. Richard Proulx
Adam Lay Ybounden – Joel Martinson
In Night’s Dim Shadows Lying – Mark Sirett
Carol of the Advent – arr. Philip Dietterich
E’en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come – Paul Manz
I Wonder as I Wander – Carl Rütti
Bogoroditse Devo – Sergei Rachmaninoff
O Come, Divine Messiah! – arr. Howard Helvey

🎼 Congregational Hymns & Carols
Creator of the Stars of Night (CONDITOR ALME SIDERUM)
Pervasive Never-Absent One (LAUREL)
Comfort, Comfort Ye My People (PSALM 42/FREU DICH SEHR)
Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers (HAF TRONES LAMPA FÄRDIG)
O Day of Peace that Dimly Shines (JERUSALEM)
The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came (GABRIEL’S MESSAGE)
Lift Up Your Heads (TRURO)

🎹 Organ Voluntaries
Ave Maria d’Arcadelt – Franz Lizst
Rorate Caeli – Jeanne Demessieux
Toccata on “Veni Emmanuel” – Adolphus Hailstork

We are especially honored to welcome Bishop Wayne Smith for his final visit following seven years of loving service to our community.

Don’t miss this beautiful evening of reflection, music, and community as we continue this year’s Transfigured Nights theme of Renewal & Resonance.

📍 Church of the Transfiguration
📅 Sunday, December 5
🕔 5:00 PM
🎄 All are welcome!

Join us for a Solemn Requiem Mass in observance of All Souls’ Day, featuring Gabriel Fauré’s beloved Requiem in D minor, Op. 48, for low strings, harp, organ, violin, choir, and soloists.

This luminous setting, cherished for its serenity and hope, will be woven through the Eucharistic liturgy in a reflective evening of remembrance, prayer, and peace.

Jason Awbrey will sing the baritone solos and the Pie Jesu will be sung by Elizabeth Ann McGee. Joel Martinson will conduct the Transfiguration Choir and orchestra with Jonathan Gregoire, organist.

The service will conclude in the Memorial Garden where the names of all parishioners interred in the Columbarium and ground will be recited.

Our guest preacher will be The Right Reverend Dean E. Wolfe, Bishop in Residence at Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Dallas. Prior to this position he was thirteenth Rector of St. Bartholomew's Church, New York City. Before that he served as Bishop of the Diocese of Kansas and was Vice-president of the House of Bishops for the Episcopal Church.

Transfigured Nights proudly presents award-winning organist Katelyn Emerson in her recital debut on the J. D. Godwin Organ – Richards, Fowkes & Co.’s Opus 17. The concert will end our fifteenth anniversary celebration of the dedication of this world class instrument.

Ms. Emerson is the 2016 winner of the American Guild of Organists’ NYACOP competition, the semifinal round of which was held at Transfiguration. Her performance this Sunday, October 12, at 7 pm, will fulfill our long-held dream to have her return to play a solo recital on our beautiful organ.

You are invited to greet Ms. Emerson following the concert at a reception in the Parlor.

PROGRAM
Georg Muffat
Toccata septima (1690)

Vincent Lübeck
Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, LübWV 13

Charles Tournemire (reconstructed Maurice Duruflé)
Fantaisie-Improvisation sur l’Ave maris stella (1931/1958)

Rachel Laurin
Sonata en Fa, Opus 7 (1985)

W. A. Mozart
Fantasia f-Moll, K 608 (1790)