Accord Treble Choir High-Tea Performance for Climate Week

In honor of NYC Climate Week, Accord Treble Choir presents Urgent Earth: A Musical Ceremony of Mourning and Rebirth. Composed by Hungarian House Composer in Residence Stefania de Kenessey with poetry by Annie Finch, Urgent Earth is an a cappella eco-cantata about the climate crisis. A prologue inspired by Wiccan rituals is followed by musically diverse movements titled “Oil Spill,” “Butterfly Lullaby,” “Mother God,” and “Extinction Litany.” This timely offering will be paired with a variety of Hungarian choral works that celebrate the beauty of nature, love, and music.

About the Choir:

Accord Treble Choir is a nine-voice a cappella chamber choir based in New York City. Accord was founded in 2009 by Akiko Fuchisawa and Liz Geisewite with the intention of building a musical ensemble based on cooperation, caring, and a shared love for unaccompanied (a cappella) choral music written specifically for treble voices. Selecting repertoire that ranges from medieval chant to contemporary pop songs, Accord seeks to bring music that is lesser known and underperformed to a wider audience. Members of Accord challenge each other to grow musically, aurally, and vocally by fearlessly embracing challenging music in a variety of languages and styles from around the world. Originally leaning heavily on the 20th century Hungarian "equal voice" choral tradition (with composers such as Kodály, Bartok, Bárdos, and Koscár), Accord has dramatically expanded its repertoire over the past decade and has premiered multiple original works by current composers.

Since 2011, Accord has been an Ensemble in Residence at St. Ignatius of Antioch Church in Manhattan. In 2012 and 2020, Accord was selected to perform at the Eastern Division Conference of the American Choral Directors Association in Providence, RI and Rochester, NY, respectively. In honor of their tenth anniversary season, Accord recorded its first professional album, Celestial & Terrestrial, in 2018.