Ember

Ember Ember Choral Arts is a 501c3 founded in 1995 by Dr. Deborah Simpkin King under the name Schola Cantorum on Hudson.

Based in Manhattan it performs its full season in NYC & NJ, is the home of PROJECT : ENCORE, and sponsors the Ember Ablaze Composer Lab. Ember is the performance ensemble of Ember Choral Arts -- a critically acclaimed choral arts organization, embracing a mission of global cultural impact, and dedicated to engagement in choral art education, evocative-theme-based choral performance, and advocacy of new choral works by living composers.

Tonight is the final night to be transported by The New Frontier. 🚀 Takeoff with us at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in M...
05/17/2026

Tonight is the final night to be transported by The New Frontier. 🚀 Takeoff with us at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown, NJ, at 5 pm - four hours and counting!

See you soon!

📅 Sunday, May 17, 2026, 5 pm - St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Morristown, NJ

FREE. Registration required at emberarts.org

05/15/2026

It’s here! Ember’s The New Frontier is tonight and Sunday. 💫 On Wednesday, composer Alex Eddington joined rehearsals remotely from Toronto to talk about his piece “A Present from a Small Distant World,” a setting of the text President Jimmy Carter sent to outer space in the Voyager Golden Record along with sounds of nature, musical clips, greetings in 55 languages, and other ephemera selected by a committee headed by Carl Sagan.

What Alex said about his inspiration behind the piece struck a chord in us: “There’s some civilization that might someday find it. I don’t know what the chances of that are, but the hoping that this message will be uncovered in a billion years is what I find so beautiful.”

What is music but a message of something otherwise unsayable, made with the hope that someone will find it? Come hear Alex’s piece and so much more! We can’t wait to see you!

📅 Friday, May 15, 2026, 7:30 pm - St. John’s in the Village, Manhattan

📅 Sunday, May 17, 2026, 5 pm - St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Morristown, NJ

FREE. Registration required at emberarts.org

05/15/2026

Ember’s season-ending concerts are May 15, at 7:30 pm in the West Village and May 17, at 5 pm in Morristown - both free! This journey’s on us. 🪐 Register at emberarts.org. Ember Billy Shaw St John's In The Village St. Peter's, Morristown

Having composers in the room during rehearsals is not something most choirs do - unless that choir is Ember! Crucial to ...
05/14/2026

Having composers in the room during rehearsals is not something most choirs do - unless that choir is Ember! Crucial to the Ember experience, firsthand communion with the composer reminds us of both the work and serendipity behind every song we sing. Last night Michael Markowski joined us at our rehearsal of his piece “Where the Two Road Cross.”

Written in homage to the 2003 Columbia disaster, when seven astronauts perished during their return to Earth, Markowski’s piece also includes a Bach quote as well as a nod to the 1986 Challenger tragedy, specifically to astronaut Ronald McNair, who’d brought his soprano saxophone along for the ill-fated ride.

Tonight Ember will be joined by Alex Eddington for rehearsal of “A Present from a Small Distant World,” about the time capsule sent to space on the Voyager back in 1977 - and that is still out there, somewhere.

More inspiration to come! Hear it all live this weekend:

📅 Friday, May 15, 2026, 7:30 pm - St. John’s in the Village, Manhattan

📅 Sunday, May 17, 2026, 5 pm - St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Morristown, NJ

🎟️ FREE! Donations always welcome, and registration required at emberarts.org

Ember’s The New Frontier takes flight THIS Friday with: ✨ “At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners” by Willametta Spencer✨...
05/12/2026

Ember’s The New Frontier takes flight THIS Friday with:

✨ “At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners” by Willametta Spencer
✨ “Where the Two Roads Cross” by Michael Markowski
✨ “Da Pacem” by Arvo Pärt
✨ “Stars” by Ēriks Ešenvalds
✨ “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” from Wizard of Oz

and more...

📅 Friday, May 15, 2026, 7:30 pm - St. John’s in the Village, Manhattan

📅 Sunday, May 17, 2026, 5 pm - St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Morristown, NJ

FREE. Registration required at emberarts.org

05/07/2026

The countdown to Ember’s final two concerts of the season has begun! 🚀 Join us May 15 at 7:30 in NYC’s West Village and May 17 at 5 in Morristown, NJ. FREE! Register at emberarts.org. Ember St John's In The VillageSt. Peter's, Morristown

The countdown has begun! Ember’s final two concerts of the season are next week, celebrating America’s first foray into ...
05/07/2026

The countdown has begun! Ember’s final two concerts of the season are next week, celebrating America’s first foray into space and all of the wonder, courage, and audacity it required.

Come hear compositions by Alex Eddington, Arvo Pärt, and Erik Esenvalds next to familiar favorites like “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and “Impossible Dream” - music that looks back at where we’ve been and asks who we are and who we want to become. 💫

📅 Friday, May 15, 2026, 7:30 pm - St. John’s in the Village, Manhattan

📅 Sunday, May 17, 2026, 5 pm - St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Morristown, NJ

🎟️ FREE! Registration required at emberarts.org

Though the theme of Ember’s final two concerts of the season was set long before Artemis hit the headlines, our performa...
04/20/2026

Though the theme of Ember’s final two concerts of the season was set long before Artemis hit the headlines, our performance, inspired by the leadership that galvanized America to send the first humans to the moon, will be all the more invigorated by it.
Join us to celebrate the near-magic that can happen when we call upon Our Better Angels. 💫

📅 Friday, May 15, 2026, 7:30 pm - St. John’s in the Village, Manhattan

📅 Sunday, May 17, 2026, 5 pm - St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Morristown, NJ

🎟️ Pay-what-you-can, donations welcome, and registration required at emberarts.org

Thank you to all who came out last weekend for The Four Freedoms! What a joy and a thrill! Mark your calendars now for t...
03/19/2026

Thank you to all who came out last weekend for The Four Freedoms! What a joy and a thrill! Mark your calendars now for the second and final set of shows of Ember's Our Better Angels season, which celebrate a different but no less inspirational time in our country's history—when we were called to and we delivered the first humans ever to set foot on the moon.

🚀 Ember Choral Arts Presents: The New Frontier
📅 Friday, May 15, 7:30 pm, St. John's in the Village, New York City
📅 Sunday, May 17, 5 pm, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Morristown, NJ

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