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We are currently looking for someone with 3+ years of experience in digital and print art direction to join our creative team. In this role, you’ll produce designs for a high-profile global brand in financial payments and technology. While knowledge of both print and digital are necessary in this position, the primary focus will be digital design. This position is based in Purchase, New York.

In the role, you will:

• Work on digital campaigns, emails, landing pages, social media assets and banner ads
• Produce website wireframes and mock-ups
• Design B2B materials, whitepapers and reports
• Develop storyboards and visual assets for video production
• Create experiential design materials
• Collaborate with copywriters, art directors and creative directors as well as account and strategy team members

Skills and Experience:

• Strong foundations in typography, composition and conceptual thinking
• Strong understanding of best practices in digital and print design
• Understanding of responsive and accessible design
• Proficiency in Adobe CC (primarily Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat)
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Additional experience in Ceros, PowerPoint, Adobe Animate and HTML5 would be an asset

About Armstrong

Be real. Be relevant. Be relentless. That’s what Armstrongers do.

Bring your best, authentic self to a progressive, future-facing marketing agency where curiosity, creativity and courage are celebrated non-stop; where storytelling and tech play nice together; and where opportunity knocks every day.

Armstrong is 49 unique and inspiring individuals based in Toronto and New York, 100% committed to challenging the status quo. As an Armstronger you can expect respect, trust and support (because everybody wants and deserves that) and real career opportunity (because you want to grow and we want to see you do it).

Armstrong THRIVES on diversity. Let us know if you need an accommodation at any point. We’d be honoured to explore whether our team is a great home for you.

Armstrong Partnership

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Imagine working for a company with a mission you can truly believe in, a playful and energetic culture, a talented team of coworkers, and a bright future! Rubies II, the world’s largest designer, manufacturer and distributor of Halloween costumes and accessories is looking for an Art Director. Rubies is a family owned and operated business celebrating over 70 years in business. In this role, you’ll be responsible for creating a vast selection of products that extends well beyond Halloween helping people around the world celebrate holidays and special occasions from Easter to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick’s Day to Christmas, New Year’s Eve to bachelorette parties and everything in between. With costumes and accessories from the hottest licensed properties and our stellar in-house design team, Rubie’s offers something for everyone in the family even your pets! With our finger on the pulse of pop culture, RUBIES II’s 2020/2021 license portfolio includes collections from movies like Wonder Woman 1984, Black Widow, Star Wars, The Mandalorian, Star Trek Discovery, and iconic characters like Batman, Wonder Woman, Black Panther, Supergirl, Princess Leia, Darth Vader and many more. RUBIES II products are found wherever Halloween costumes and dress up are sold, including national retail chains, toy stores, costume shops, online stores, variety stores and other specialty retailers throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, South America, Australia and Asia.

ART DIRECTOR

We’re looking for a driven and talented Art Director, with over 7 of years’ experience.

The ideal candidate must be passionate about bringing creative ideas to life. This position requires an in-depth understanding of imagery, composition and design, as well a strong ability to innovate and collaborate across departments and marketing initiatives.

You’ll work closely with the rest of our creative department, including the designers, makeup design, stylists, photographer, and multimedia team, and will be responsible for the look of the overall finished product.

You should be up to date with all the greatest and latest trends, techniques, and styles – from films and music, to art and fashion – and will constantly seek creative inspiration from different sources. Equally, you’ll be just keen to learn about our clients and their products/services.

You’ll know your way around the Adobe suite and will be able to produce work from digital scamps right through to designed client decks. You’ll be able to create fresh ideas using original sketches, stock libraries, in-house photography, and equally, be able to source original artists, who you can brief and direct. You’ll be as comfortable presenting work to clients and internal teams as you are briefing art workers and designers.

This is a very exciting position and opportunity. One where you have the opportunity of growing the breadth and quality of not only your own work and profiles within the industry. We’re looking for a creative who has a 360 approach and is able to think strategically outside of the box.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Oversee package design, makeup direction and photo shoots
• Partner with Creative Director to implement strategy and development of all creative campaigns, ensuring a consistent and relevant look and feel across channels and platforms
• Remain current on emerging trends to bring consistently fresh thinking and ideas to the team
• Thoroughly understand and clearly convey a cohesive brand voice throughout all marketing materials with on time delivery to the brief specifications.
• Understand the design elements of projects, inspire other creative workers, and keep projects on time
• Collaborate with copy partners, developers, marketing team, and others to obtain outstanding information and ensure all changes provided have been implemented. 
• Work on multiple projects simultaneously, practicing effective communication with team members and managers at all times
• Be able to provide artistic direction and guide ideas, from concept to execution
• Be detailed-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple tasks at once.
• Be able to over see photo shoots and give direction when needed.
• Oversee in house and freelance photography.
• Manage and direct various graphic designers through mood boards and clear direction.
• Creating and delivering presentations to the highest standard.
• Meet rigorous deadlines and be flexible enough to adapt to altering priorities.
• Consistently seek to push the creative for each project, challenging the brief given.
• Collaborating with production and post-production teams, ensuring that you are conscious of timelines and budgets.
• Collaborate with copy partners, developers, marketing team, and others to obtain outstanding information and ensure all changes provided have been implemented. Incorporate feedback, comments, and changes from stakeholders swiftly with a positive, solution-driven attitude.

QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS:

• A self-motivated and experienced creative with strong conceptual and communication skills coupled with an acute attention to detail.

• An ability to deliver a high standard of presentation, sketching concepts and ideas quickly and efficiently.

• Have a positive, collaborative attitude.

• A passionate individual with a strong fashion sensibility.

• Have a flair for Halloween costume/ Cosplay and makeup design

• Excellent research and connecting skills. Awareness of current creative trends and innovations.

• Provide creative quality control over concepts and execution

•  7+ years of experience in a creative/design role with expertise in typography, both printed and digital design

• Exceptional portfolio of graphic design and photo art direction required

• Self-driven, detailed oriented and accustomed to juggling multiple tasks and conflicting deadlines

•  Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop)

This is a full time position located in Westbury, NY (Nassau County, Long Island). This is NOT a work from home opportunity, you must be able to report to the office Monday to Friday. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package. For immediate consideration, please apply with your resume and a link to your portfolio.

Rubies

**Due to potential onsite requirements, only applicants in the Miami, FL area will be considered.***

Role Purpose

We’re looking to hire a Creative Director, Social to join our rapidly growing Social Creative Lab at Dentsu Creative. You will report to the Group Creative Director and will be working on Social AOR for multiple well-known brands – this includes evergreen social, reactive opportunities and larger social-first campaigns, as well as in-house and external productions, and new biz pitches.

Our culture is everything. Everyone is here to make great work in a collaborative environment that runs on creative energy. We also make a promise… if you join our group, you will make a lot of great work for your book.

Key Accountabilities

Dedication to craft:

• We want to make beautiful things for the internet in whatever format is deemed most relevant. We stand out in the market because every detail is considered. We consider the small things as much as we do the big.

‘Of the internet’ thinking:

• We’re looking for talent that has a deep passion for people and how they activate on the internet. You’ll need to be able to connect our brands to culture and have a strong track record of consistency with groundbreaking campaigns.
• You should be obsessed with pop culture, have a personal interest in social networks – particularly TikTok, Twitter and Instagram – and whatever cool new thing pops up next.
• You’re an early adopter and experimenter – you were playing around with BeReal months ago.
• You’re a social-first creative who understands social-first thinking doesn’t end in channel
• You have the belief that all facets of social are powerful and deserve the same care – from text-only tweets to an IG story to collaborating with the influencer team, and especially large activations that drive UGC.

Things this job is NOT:

• A social post factory.
• We are not the ‘can you do the social posts for my TV spot’ group. We win our own clients. We run our own projects. We have our own relationships with clients (and they really are awesome).
• Limited. We work whatever format makes sense for the project.

Qualifications

The anticipated base salary range for this position is$136,000 – $219,650. Salary is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and geography.Additionally, this position is eligible for discretionary incentive compensation. The company’s incentive compensation plan is subject to change. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regardingdentsubenefits, please visitdentsubenefitsplus.com

Dentsu (the “Company”) is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please [email protected] you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.

Additional Information

Employees from diverse or underrepresented backgrounds encouraged to apply.

Dentsu (the “Company”) is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact [email protected] if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.

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The Studio at Situation Group crafts award-winning work for the world’s leading entertainment, education and mission-driven brands. The Studio seeks an Art Director to oversee and provide high-level designs for Arts & Entertainment clients, with a primary focus on a global entertainment brand. This role will report to the Design Supervisor, Arts & Entertainment and will work with our production team of designers and freelancers to ensure that project goals and needs of the brief are met on time and on budget. The selected candidate will demonstrate advanced design and oversight skills as well as extreme precision in their day-to-day work.

What You’ll Do

The Art Director is responsible for creating and overseeing the visual design and style of a variety of projects for our Arts & Entertainment clients. This person will work with our Studio team on print materials, out of home advertising, digital media creative, logos, social media assets and more. The Art Director will lead and work with a team of designers and freelancers to conceptualize, develop, and produce visual materials that effectively communicate the overall look and feel of a project in addition to meeting the needs of the client.

Our office is located in midtown Manhattan and we are currently working in-office three days per week.

Sample Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Brainstorm creative concepts with ACDs, copywriters, designers and/or freelance designers
• Work as a high-level hands-on designer closely guiding creative ideation through every step of production
• Attend forecast meetings to determine schedules and resources based on daily needs
• Ensure creative goals are clear, and that every project has sufficient time allocated and timeline schedules align with designer needs
• Oversee freelance design support on final design execution, ensuring consistency in design approach across multiple designers and multiple client projects
• Keep production running smoothly by ensuring you are meeting deadlines and addressing roadblocks as they happen
• Stay current with design trends, techniques and processes
• Coordinate with hired illustrators, photographers, animators, etc. as needed
• Present creative to the internal team, clients and partners

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience at a creative agency or similar environment
• A portfolio showcasing polished, well-thought design in lead and hands-on roles
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, InDesign)
• Expert print production proficiency and experience (projects including but not limited to out-of-home, direct mail, traditional publication placements)
• Experience setting up print-ready files and mechanicals
• Eagle-eye for details like spotting alignment issues and inconsistencies
• Strong sense of typography
• Dynamic and confident presentation skills to pitch ideas clearly and effectively
• Manage multiple projects in a fast-paced creative environment
• A deep understanding of how technical factors affect designing for both the digital space and traditional (print) space
• Troubleshoot and problem-solve efficiently, intelligently, and with positivity
• Experience with retouching and digital compositing

Benefits

We offer a competitive base salary and a range of benefits and perks:

• Salary range: $90,000 – $105,000
• Health care plan (medical, dental and vision)
• Retirement plan with employer match
• Life and disability insurance
• Generous paid time off package that includes vacation, sick, “life happens” days, birthdays, summer Fridays and public holidays
• Paid family leave
• Cold brew coffee, snacks, and fresh fruit
• Wellness resources
• Special access to New York City’s arts and entertainment scene

We have been honored for our commitment to our team with workplace awards from Crain’s, Best Companies Group, Cynopsis, Digiday, and Fortune.

Our Company

The Studio at Situation Group crafts award-winning work for leading entertainment, education, and mission-driven brands—WICKED on Broadway, The Metropolitan Opera, Columbia University, and No Kid Hungry.

The Studio is part of Situation Group, a digital-first collective of award-winning advertising agencies.

Studio at Situation Group

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CASTING CALL

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MEN 6’0 +
WOMEN 5’9+

About the Role:

• The Creative Director will share responsibility of managing multiple creative teams, and effectively driving the creative disciplines of the agency.

About you:

• A strategic, creative thinker with robust experience in the digital marketing space
• Able to navigate client ambiguity and business challenges to find data-driven, strategic creative solutions where there is no obvious path.
• Confident and versatile people leader, excited to design, train, and implement best practices for a team to achieve consistency, and ultimately – client success.
• In pursuit of personal growth and challenge, and have a track record of doing the same with how you guide your creative teams and the clients at large.
• Able to traverse complex workstreams, with an eye for detail, and vision for the bigger picture.
• Champion of the creative work and the people executing it.
• A direct source of guidance and leadership in the department.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Build and manage a large creative team, composed of roles across Art & Copy disciplines.
• Provide hands-on guidance to elevate creative work.
• Foster ongoing improvements to creative processes and methodologies.
• Partner with the Head of Creative to build and continually improve the creative department to be in line with the company vision.
• Motivate clients to embrace and pursue work which is impactful beyond initial request/goals.
• Inspire and empower others to solve business problems with creative, ensuring scalability and sustainability.
• Contribute to new business pitches and large-scale production efforts.
• Bring outside influence to WITHIN, and encourage us to think beyond the expected

Requirements

• Must have extensive knowledge in Social & Digital-first creative
• Strong art background
• Expertise in work with Adobe suite
• Working knowledge of post-production
• Ability to conceptualize and execute conversion-yielding creative
• Up-to-date knowledge of successful creative trends and tactics to appease diverse KPIs, from awareness to acquisition.
• Ability to diagnose shortfalls in Clients’ existing creative campaigns or brand at large
• Senior experience in a Social/Digital first shop with demonstrated leadership
• Ability to prompt and promote collaboration; both inter departmental and with clientele
• Proven ability to foster new and additional growth to existing client relationships
• Confidence in working in a fast-paced cutting edge digital environment
• Ability to attract and retain top industry creative talent
• Compelling presenter, wanted by teams to be involved for important client and pitch opportunities

Benefits

About Us:

We are Performance Branding experts, working with scalable and enterprise brands including Nike, The North Face, Vans, and Proximo Spirits. We leverage digital channels and creative to grow our clients. Data drives our decision making and enables us to operate like trusted business partners. WITHIN works with brands to collapse the funnel between performance and brand marketing unifying objectives, targets, strategy, and implementation. Partnered with a brand’s value proposition, our integrated media and personalized content solutions prioritize profits and growth over channel optimization, taking a holistic approach to marketing programs, and training our people across every channel. We use the best technology available along with proprietary tools delivering the best performance for our clients.

Everyone at WITHIN wants to grow and be challenged. It’s a collaborative place made up of small, closely knit and versatile teams that are fast and adaptive to solve problems and build systems.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits based on ability level including:

• Base salary DOE ($96,000-$500,000)
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Monthly Phone Stipend
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance options
• Dog friendly office
• Hybrid work opportunity

WITHIN

OVERVIEW:

Ten Thousand is looking for an innovative Creative Director to join our Brand Marketing team. The ideal candidate is a proven creative leader, technical designer and gifted communicator. Reporting into our SVP of Brand, you’ll be responsible for bringing a strategic lens to creative output, evolving the brand look/feel, producing engaging content and leading the creative department with vision and structure. We’re looking for someone who brings an elevated aesthetic and nuanced understanding of the training/fitness industry. You are fluent in designing everything from TikTok ads to brick-and-mortar fixture displays. With this role, you’ll be joining a fast growing company at an early stage and will have the opportunity to make a major impact on the business. 

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build the Ten Thousand brand into a household name with deep relevance and authenticity.
• Manage a team across graphic/site design, copywriting, content production and editing. Help prioritize their work and lead the team from ideation to delivery. 
• Act as the internal creative agency to develop and execute on-brand and differentiated campaigns across email, site design, paid advertising, social content, product graphics, packaging, with event and retail signage support. Output should support target CPAs, CTR, and CVR.   
• Lead frontend UX/UI strategy and design on site. Develop best-in-class brand experience while pushing CVR and AOV. 
• Build strategy and vision around organic and paid content that is optimized for high engagement and CTR respectively while remaining on-brand.   
• Ideate, establish, and reinforce consistent brand narrative and design systems across all platforms via creation of Brand Book and Style Guide. 
• Establish clear communication structure across your internal Creative team, as well as Marketing, Partnership, Product Merch and Executive teams, and clearly articulate workflow needs with the proper advanced timing to anticipate needs.
• Identify gaps in our capabilities — when we need to build and when we need to source specialists.
• Oversee the Creative and Production budget.
• Lead, develop and inspire the Creative department with best practices and an ownership mentality. 
• Recruit new creative talent when needed and nurture growth and development of the current team.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 7+ years of agency or internal creative team experience.
• Proven track record as a Creative Director or similar role and responsibilities.
• 2+ years of management experience of designers, copywriters, producers and editors. 
• Hands-on experience in creative process, marketing, graphic design, site design and brand development.
• Strong conceptual and aesthetic skills (color, illustration, typography, logo design, layout); retouching; knowledge of print, OOH, and social media/digital delivery.
• Possess deep knowledge in Adobe Creative Suite – master of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects, etc.
• Experience with Figma, Sketch, and C4D is a bonus.
• Advanced listening, verbal and written communication skills, including experience in creating, writing, researching, and managing content in multiple formats.
• Strong knowledge of and connection to athletic, lifestyle, and culturally relevant individuals and brands.
• Outside-of-the-box thinker who takes initiative and thrives in a highly collaborative team environment.
• Highly organized with good project management skills. Able to juggle competing priorities.
• Ability to build productive relationships at all levels throughout an organization, and cross functionally.
• Independent, entrepreneurial, passionate self-starter with a focus on delivery of excellence, a GSD attitude and a sense of urgency.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Humility and eagerness to learn and grow.
• Salary range is dependent of years of experience and skills and ranges between $120,000-$175,000
• This position is based in FiDi in NYC and must be open to being in office 4 days a week minimum. 

BENEFITS:

• Competitive salary 
• Stock options
• Benefits (medical, dental, vision)
• Unlimited PTO
• Complimentary gear
• Free office consumables 
• $50 month+tax/fees Life Time Fitness Membership (orig. $250 value)

ABOUT TEN THOUSAND

Starting with the world’s best training shorts, Ten Thousand is building the go-to men’s performance apparel brand for the functional fitness movement. Each Ten Thousand product features premium performance fabrics, an elevated aesthetic, and thoughtful fit and feature options.

Since launching, Ten Thousand has been featured in GQ, Esquire, Gear Patrol, Men’s Health, and other leading lifestyle and fitness outlets, and we’ve developed partnerships with other industry-leading brands including Equinox and SoulCycle.

With funding from leading consumer VCs and e-commerce leaders, we’re well on our way to becoming the go-to training brand for men. Learn more on Instagram or at www.tenthousand.cc

Ten Thousand, Inc.

Ministry Position

Spiritually grounded, and a person of practiced prayer and faith, the Director of Music will work collaboratively and strategically with the Vicar, the Priest and Director of Congregational Life, Liturgy and the Arts, and the Music Leadership team to imagine and enact liturgy that transcends conventional distinctions between high and low church and inspires the lifting of hearts and minds to God in praise, thanksgiving, and adoration.

The Director of Music will serve as the principal conductor of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. As the Principal Choral Director, the Director of Music will oversee the choral and vocal development of the choirs. Proven excellence in conducting is essential. A significant understanding and affinity for the Episcopal/Anglican musical tradition with both a deep and broad knowledge of sacred music from all periods is also required.

The Director of Music will further develop the choir’s activities with the Music Leadership team, exploring outreach and collaborative projects, including annual invitations to guest conductors. The Director of Music convenes the Music Leadership team, and with them and the Vicar, oversees all liturgical, professional, and community music programming at Trinity, helping to foster and nourish an environment where arts and music thrive for amateurs and professionals, for the congregation, and for the City of New York.

This individual must have high-level collaborative skills and demonstrate success in leading creative people in a complex organization. An open heart and generosity of spirit are essential as this people-centered role provides leadership within the congregation and community. The Director of Music must be education-minded, have at least a Master’s Degree in Music (Doctorate preferred), with excellent keyboard skills.

The Director of Music reports to the Vicar and directly supervises the Music Leadership team.

The annual salary range for this position is $200,000 to $225,000.

About Trinity’s Music Program

The music program at Trinity Church Wall Street aims to create and hold space for deep encounters with the Holy. Offering solace, inspiration, joy, connection, reflection, and invitation at each liturgy and concert, Trinity’s choirs and instrumental ensembles are committed to service as agents of healing and hope in a complex and often difficult city and world. Liturgical repertoire honors the diversity of New York City and ranges from Renaissance motets to the Anglican canon, spirituals, jazz collaborations, and new commissions, as well as large-scale works such as portions of J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Duke Ellington’s Sacred Service, and Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem. On Sunday evenings, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street offers an intimate weekly Compline by Candlelight service featuring improvisation, chant, and newly composed sacred works. A monthly choral evensong, choral scholars program, and annual competition for sacred music commissions are all underway.

Trinity has a long tradition of presenting concerts for New York City. Members of Trinity’s peerless ensembles perform in many concerts each season and have a uniquely broad range of expertise from early to new music performance, offer an extensive discography, and often champion underrepresented composers. As a pioneer in amplifying the voices of female artists, Trinity has helped incubate many new compositions, including three Pulitzer Prize-winning works by women: Julia Wolfe’s oratorio Anthracite Fields, Du Yun’s opera Angel’s Bone, and Ellen Reid’s opera p r i s m.

Trinity’s music program also promotes lifelong engagement with music through a comprehensive music education program, cultural activities, and free access to acclaimed performances. Anchor programs include free weekday Concerts at One, Jazz at One, Bach at One, and Pipes at One, which present an array of artists and styles that embrace Trinity’s diverse community.

Musical education initiatives reach more than 1,000 children each year in New York City’s underserved schools and support youth in their musical, academic, social, and emotional development, primarily through the study, performance, and appreciation of diverse genres of music. Trinity provides students with a platform to perform in their local community and at Trinity, and the church supports an annual music camp for children at a partner organization, Hour Children. The Trinity Youth Chorus program, now in its 16th year and with 100 young singers enrolled, has its own schedule of performances and collaborations, and provides regular musical leadership during liturgy, concerts, and in recordings. Trinity also offers opportunities for adults to further their musical education and experience with the semiprofessional Downtown Voices choir and the St. Paul’s Chapel Choir.

PIPE ORGANS

St. Paul’s Chapel

Noack organ 1989/2017 III/31 stops

Mechanical action

The Noack Organ Company’s Opus 161, installed in St. Paul’s Chapel in 2017, is a reconstruction of an earlier Noack, Opus 111, installed in 1989 at Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

In September 2015, Trinity Church commissioned Noack to undertake a study to explore how the Opus 111 could be re-engineered into the historic, although altered, organ case at St. Paul’s, installed by English organ-builder George Pike England in 1802. This case had been altered three times: first in 1870 by Odell, who added side wings and a crowning, exposed swell box; again in 1928 by Skinner, who provided a different swell box; and finally in 1964 by Schlicker, who removed the swell box and furnished new façade pipes. Noack’s president, Didier Grassin, deftly showed how subtle alterations could restore good proportions to the case, while permitting all of Opus 111’s 29 stops to be fitted comfortably inside.

The revitalized organ arrived in New York in September 2017 and was ready for use that November. Its official debut in February 2018 included a full week of recitals, choral offerings, and concerts with NOVUS NY, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and guest organists and soloists. Today, the instrument sometimes leads special Compline services and is featured in regular Pipes at One recitals, welcoming guest organists from around the world.

Trinity Church

Glatter-Götz & Rosales 2024  IV/113 stops

Mechanical & electric action

In 2015, Glatter-Götz Orgelbau of Pfullendorf, Germany, with Manuel Rosales as tonal designer, were engaged to envision a new instrument for Trinity Church. The new organ is conceived along the lines of its predecessors, a united instrument of 113 independent stops between chancel and gallery sections. The chancel has 28 stops across Great, Swell, Positiv, Solo, and Pedal. The gallery’s 85 stops are apportioned among Great, Swell, Choir, Rückpositiv, Solo, and Pedal.

The organ’s appearance has undergone subtle changes. In the chancel, the side portions of both cases have been rearranged to house pipes in traditional practice. On the south (left) side, a new four-stop Positiv will contain an eight-foot Principal in façade, with a flute chorus within. Opposite, the Great’s Diapason and Octave will live in the case, with the remainder of this department enclosed in the Swell. The doubly enclosed Solo will contain a chorus of powerful trumpets alongside ethereal voices.

In the nave, Upjohn’s majestic 1846 case survives as the church’s oldest continuous piece of furniture. Minor alterations are envisioned to the upper pipe flats, to increase visual interest, and new façade pipes will be installed. The gallery railing, which once housed the Erben organ’s Choir section, will now have a 10-stop Rückpositiv, with an intimate character on light wind pressure. Modifications to the gallery railing from 1970 will be reversed, and the new ‘Chaire’ case will be sensitively integrated. The interior departments are arranged in a traditional manner, with the Swell placed prominently, high up behind the crest point.

The stoplist will be published after installation. Notable features include a duophonic 32-foot Open Wood, together with three other 32-foot voices, and a quartet of Tubas of differing characters on varying wind pressures. In keeping with precedents set by the original instruments, all façade pipes will be gold-leafed. A mobile console will allow leadership from the chancel and front section of the nave. Both consoles will control the entire instrument. This organ will be completed in 2024.

Chapel of All Saints

Richards & Fowkes 2022 II/17 stops

Mechanical action, meantone tuning with alternate accidentals mechanism

In August 2016, Trinity selected Richards, Fowkes & Co. of Ooltewah, Tennessee, to design a new organ, their Opus 26, for the Chapel of All Saints in Trinity Church. Following a three-year design period, Trinity signed on with the builders for a 19-stop, two manual and pedal organ with an unusual design. The new instrument’s chief feature is its quarter-comma meantone tuning, which creates an essential ingredient for the sound-world of western music’s earliest keyboard repertoire.

The instrument will have 15 pipes per octave, with separate pipes for D#/Eb, G#/Ab, and A#/Bb. Most organs using this tuning system employ double-sharp keys, one piggybacking on the other, to permit access to each sub-semitone. In Opus 26, these pipes will be selected by three mechanical levers, one for each pair of accidentals.

The keydesk will be in the alcove that has housed both prior consoles for the 1912 Hook-Hastings and the 1984 Bozeman. The John Nash organ case will be retained with minor modifications, augmented with additional decorative screening behind, which allows the sound from Manual II and Pedal (placed in the space behind the case) to come through clearly. This organ will be completed in February 2023.

Continuo Organ (2)

Klop I/5 and I/7

Mechanical action

These versatile instruments are ideal for accompanying early music, from Renaissance motets in Sunday morning services to Bach cantatas in our Bach at One series.

OTHER INSTRUMENTS

Pianos

Yamaha CFX, 2 Yamaha CX9, Kawaii, Steinway B

Harpsichords

Dowd (1970), Zuckerman (2012). Pedal unit (2014)

Handbells – 4 octaves

CHORAL ENSEMBLE BIOS

The Choir of Trinity Wall Street

Peerless interpreters of both early and new music, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street has redefined the realm of 21st-century vocal music, breaking new ground with artistry described as “blazing with vigour…a choir from heaven” (The Times, London). This premier professional ensemble can be heard live, online, and in services, recordings, and performances described as “thrilling” (The New Yorker), “musically top-notch” (The Wall Street Journal), and “simply superb” (The New York Times).

The Choir of Trinity Wall Street leads liturgical music at Trinity Church on Sundays and Major Feasts, and at additional services throughout the year, all of which are livestreamed, providing access to a wide audience. In 2020-2022, musical excerpts were featured weekly on Trinity’s Comfort at One series and included a partnership with Amplify Female Composers to bring more music by women composers into the sacred music canon. A typical season for the choir includes performing in Bach at One, Compline by Candlelight, and many other concerts and festivals throughout the year, often with NOVUS NY, the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and the Trinity Youth Chorus. The choir anchors Trinity’s critically acclaimed performances of Handel’s Messiah, which The New York Times refers to as “the best Messiah in New York.”

Recent season highlights include a full production of Considering Matthew Shepard, Handel’s Theodora at Caramoor, Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields at Carnegie Hall, Tyshawn Sorey’s Monochromatic Light at the Park Ave Armory, Notes from Ukraine at Carnegie Hall, Bach cantatas at Salle Bourgie in Montreal, and collaborations with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the American Modern Opera Company.

The choir has toured extensively throughout the United States, making appearances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Shed at Hudson Yards, the Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the PROTOTYPE Festival, with partners such as Bang on a Can All-Stars, the New York Philharmonic, and the Rolling Stones. Increasingly in-demand internationally, the choir has also performed at Montreal’s Salle Bourgie, Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Norway’s Stavanger Cathedral, and London’s Barbican Theatre.

In addition to the Grammy Award-nominated recordings Luna Pearl Woolf: Fire and Flood and Handel’s Israel in Egypt, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street has released recordings on Naxos, Musica Omnia, Pentatone, VIA Recordings, ARSIS, Avie Records, Acis, Cantaloupe Music, Decca Gold, and Philip Glass’s Orange Mountain Music. Trinity’s long-term commitment to new music has led to many collaborations with living composers including Ellen Reid, Du Yun, Trevor Weston, Paola Prestini, Luna Pearl Woolf, Ralf Yusuf Gawlick, Elena Ruehr, and Julia Wolfe, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning and Grammy Award-nominated work Anthracite Fields was recorded with the choir. Along with NOVUS NY, the choir also collaborated on and recorded two Pulitzer Prize-winning operas: Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone and Ellen Reid’s p r i s m.

Downtown Voices

Praised by The New York Times for its “incisive, agile strength,” Downtown Voices is a semiprofessional choir made up of volunteer singers and GRAMMY®-nominated members of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Conducted by Stephen Sands since its 2015 inception, Downtown Voices has performed works by Beethoven, Brahms, Hailstork, Rachmaninoff, Pärt, Webern, Ginastera, Janáček, James MacMillan, and Philip Glass, in addition to premiering Spire and Shadow by Zachary Wadsworth, a large-scale commission for the 250th anniversary of St. Paul’s Chapel.

The group made their Carnegie Hall debut in October 2022 with the Buffalo Philharmonic conducted by JoAnn Falleta for the Lukas Foss Centennial Celebration. Other recent performances include Orff’s Carmina Burana at The Ross Farm; Compline by Candlelight, Lux Aeterna, and Anthems concerts at St. Paul’s Chapel; and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew. In past years, the ensemble performed Community Carol Sing concerts, Arvo Pärt’s Passio, Beethoven’s Mass in C, Dvořák’s Mass in D, and Britten’s Hymn to St. Cecilia. Downtown Voices has been featured several times with Andrea Bocelli and can be heard on Trinity’s epic recording Philip Glass: Symphony No. 5 released by Orange Mountain Music.

St. Paul’s Chapel Choir

The St. Paul’s Chapel Choir brings together people who love to sing and who want to be part of a warm and welcoming community. This volunteer ensemble of sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses gives singers the opportunity to make music together during weekly rehearsals and monthly services at Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan.

The choir sings a variety of liturgical choral repertoire from traditional Anglican anthems to classical and contemporary music, and often sings alongside members of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street.

Trinity Youth Chorus

The Trinity Youth Chorus brings together talented youth ages 5 to 18 from the five boroughs of New York City. Choristers receive individual and group training in vocal technique, music theory, sight-reading, and performance skills from a group of dedicated professionals led by Trinity’s Director of Music Education and Trinity Youth Chorus.

The choristers provide musical leadership at 9am services on Sundays, presenting repertoire from gospel and jazz traditions to the standard Anglican choral canon. The Trinity Youth Chorus performs in a variety of concerts throughout the season, often alongside Trinity’s professional ensembles: The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and NOVUS NY. Recent highlights include Orff’s Carmina Burana, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, a fully staged production of Britten’s Noye’s Fludde, Ellen Reid’s Winter’s Child at the PROTOTYPE Festival, Ginastera’s Turbae ad Passionem Gregorianam and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at Carnegie Hall, and Britten’s War Requiem with the Queens College Choral Society. Recording projects include Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 5 and Lisa Bielawa’s My Outstretched Hand with the San Francisco Girls Chorus and the Knights.

The Trinity Youth Chorus is featured in the films Love is Strange and Doubt, as well as Lisa Bielawa’s made-for-TV opera Vireo; they have sung backup for Josh Groban, the Rolling Stones, and Bobby McFerrin; and they have been heard on Public Radio International and CBS’s The Early Show.

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NOVUS NY

Trinity Church Wall Street’s new music orchestra, NOVUS NY, is a key player on the contemporary music scene. These “expert and versatile musicians” (The New Yorker) perform new music from all corners of the repertoire, meeting “every challenge with an impressive combination of discipline and imagination” (New York Classical Review). The orchestra’s Carnegie Hall debut, made with a formidable pairing of Ives and Ginastera, prompted The New York Times to declare that “adventure and ambition go hand in hand at Trinity Wall Street.”

With its annual appearances at the PROTOTYPE Festival, New York’s premier celebration of contemporary opera, NOVUS NY and Trinity Church Wall Street have partnered in the development of several major new works. These include Emma O’Halloran’s newest opera pairing Trade and Mary Motorhead; Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music; and Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Breaking the Waves, named “Best New Opera for 2016” by the Music Critics Association of North America.

NOVUS NY recorded and performed in the East Coast premiere of Ellen Reid and librettist Roxie Perkins’ p r i s m, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2019. Additional PROTOTYPE highlights include the ensemble’s East Coast premiere of Reid’s Dreams of the New World, and the world premiere of David T. Little’s revised version of Am I Born, which was recorded with NOVUS NY and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street.

NOVUS NY has forged strong links with many of today’s leading composers, collaborating with Paola Prestini, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Daniel Felsenfeld, and Jonathan Newman on Trinity’s “Mass Reimaginings” commissioning project, and giving world premiere performances of Laura Schwendinger’s opera Artemisia and Prestini’s interdisciplinary The Hubble Cantata, which drew an open-air audience of thousands to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.

The ensemble’s recent recordings include the GRAMMY®-nominated LUNA PEARL WOOLF: FIRE AND FLOOD, Paola Prestini’s The Hubble Cantata, Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone, Trevor Weston Choral Works, Elena Ruehr: Averno, the new opera Anna Christie by Edward Thomas; Ellen Reid’s p r i s m; and Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 5.

Trinity Baroque Orchestra

Praised by The New York Times for its “dramatic vigor” and “elegantly shaped orchestral sound,” Trinity Church Wall Street’s superb period-instrument ensemble, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, has been heard in collaboration with The Choir of Trinity Wall Street in venues from New York’s Alice Tully Hall to Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, performing many of the greatest masterpieces of the Baroque repertoire.

After presenting Bach’s entire monumental output of sacred vocal music during a five-year cycle of concerts in Trinity’s popular Bach at One series, the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and The Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street embarked on the Bach + One series, pairing a Bach cantata with a complementary work by a different composer, as well as The Handel Project, a multi-season initiative presenting Handel’s oratorios. The orchestra is featured annually in Trinity’s critically acclaimed performances of Handel’s Messiah, which The New York Times declares to be “the best Messiah in New York.”

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