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World premiere of Rouse Requiem, sung by the Los Angeles Master Chorale |
In the two short decades since its founding, Soli Deo Gloria’s commissioning division, SDG Music Foundation, has created a body of 37 original works of sacred music from 25 composers of 9 nationalities. Works commissioned by SDG have been performed in concert halls and houses of worship in 8 countries. Major collaborators have included the New York Philharmonic, Westminster Choir College, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, American Boychoir, and Los Angeles Master Chorale.
Through the years, SDG has worked with composers of many faith backgrounds, especially in the Psalms Project, and has inspired new generations through its international Project Uplift, which brings the sacred repertoire to audiences where funding for such performances may be in short supply.
Soli Deo Gloria also sponsors sacred concerts and recordings on CD and DVD, notably four highly regarded DVDs of classical sacred masterworks, conducted by SDG’s Founding Artistic Director, John Nelson: Bach Mass in B Minor, Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Haydn Die Schöpfung (“The Creation”), and Bach St. Matthew Passion.
Based in Chicago, SDG’s concert activities include the popular Chicago Bach Project which, since 2011 has presented a single performance each spring in which Maestro Nelson conducts a top-tier cast of soloists, orchestral musicians and choristers in one of J. S. Bach’s monumental sacred masterworks. The 2015 performance, the St. John Passion, is scheduled for March 20, 2015, at Chicago’s Harris Theater for Music and Dance.
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