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Michael C. Haigler

Performance History

A (semi) complete list of all of the performances that have been featured
on this website (or the highlights thereof).

Note: This Page is currently under construction.

2023:

Winter Harbor Music Festival, The Marriage of Figaro (Conductor)

August 2023 at Hammond Hall (Winter Harbor, Maine)

A complete performance with orchestra.

Long Island Choral Society Concert, Brahms and Broadway (Conductor)

Sunday, May 7, 2023 at 4pm at Garden City Community Church

Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 7:30pm at St. Rose of Lima (Massapequa, NY)

Celebrating the 190th birthday of Johannes Brahms. (Tickets at the door)

Bronx Opera: Dialogues of the Carmelites (Chorus Master)

Saturday and Sundays, May 6, 13 at 7:30pm, May 7, 14 at 2:30pm

Lovinger Theater at Lehman College, Bronx, NY

Christ Church, Oyster Bay: Festive Evensong (Conductor and Music Director)

Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 4pm

Honoring the Feast of St. Philip and St. James and featuring the Christ Church Adult Choir and special guests in music by Bernard Rose (Preces and Responses), Charles Stanford (Mag and Nunc), and Henry Balfour Gardiner (Evening Hymn).

 

Long Island Choral Society Concert, Mendelssohn and Remembrance (Conductor)

Sunday, January 22, 2023 at 4pm at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, Seaford

Postponed from Veteran's Day due to Covid, this concert celebrates Peace over War, with highlights from Mendelssohn's Elijah, and favorites honoring our Veterans, including "A Salute to the Armed Forces", "God Bless America", and man others.

Bronx Opera: Lady in the Dark, by Kurt Weill (Chorus Master)

Saturday and Sundays, Jan 28, 29 at 7:30pm, Feb 4, 5 at 2:30pm

Lovinger Theater at Lehman College, Bronx, NY

2022:

The Barber of Seville (Conductor)

Winter Harbor Music Festival

August 2022 (dates TBA) -- Hammond Hall, Winter Harbor

The Fifteenth Annual Spring Gala Concert (Conductor)

Sunday, June 5, 2022* at 4pm at Christ Church in Oyster Bay

     *Postponed from 2020, subject to change

Music by Beethoven, honoring 250 years since his birth:

  Music to include Mass in C, Choral Fantasy, and the Elegaic Song

Leipzig, Germany (Pianist)

January 30, 2022 at Schumann-Haus (Inselstraße 18, 04103 Leipzig)

Program: A Most Musical Marriage: Robert and Clara Schumann

With pianist Dr. Arielle Levioff

(Other dates TBA)
 

Bronx Opera 2021-2022:* (Chorus Master)

      *subject to change due to Covid restrictions

Vaughan Williams: Riders to the Sea -- January 2022

Smetana: The Bartered Bride -- May 2022

Lehman College, Bronx, NY; Lovinger Theater

2021:

Winter Harbor Music Director (Conductor)

Mozart: The Impresario (with full orchestra)

Thursday, August 19 at 4pm (Surry Arts Barn)
Saturday, August 21 at 2pm (Gouldsboro Town Park)
Saturday, August 21at 7pm (Hammond Hall)
Sunday, August 22 at 2pm (Hammond Hall)

Point Counterpoint Faculty Recital (Pianist and co-Director)

"Pianos on the Point" Session

Wednesday September 9, at 7:30pm, Champlain Valley Unitarian Church

Beethoven: Waldstien Sonata

Mendelssohn: Highlights from A Midsummer Night's Dream (piano duet)

2020:

Bronx Opera (Chorus Master)

Lehman College, Bronx, NY; Lovinger Theater
Mozart's Don Giovanni -- January 11, 12, 17, 18 (7:30pm and 2:30pm)

Hudson Valley Chorale (Conductor/Artistic Director)

Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 3pm; Dominican Convent, Sparkill, NY

"America's Spirit in Song" (all American program)

​Feast of the Presentation Evensong (Music Director/organist)

Sunday, February 2, 2020 at 4pm; Christ Church Oyster Bay

Music: Ireland: Mag and Nunc, Rose: Preces and Responses

A Most Musical Marriage (piano duo, with Arielle Levioff)

Music for 2 and 4 hands by Clara and Robert Schumann  [*=Postponed]

*Saturday, March 7 at 6pm -- SUPTown Music and Arts (NYC)
 Sunday, March 8 at 12pm -- Christ Church Oyster Bay (LI)

*Friday, March 13 at 2pm -- 92nd Street Y, Art Gallery (NYC) 

POSTPONED: A Beethoven Gala (Conductor/Artistic Director)

Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 4pm -- Tappan Zee High School (Orangeburg, NY)

Special joint concert with the Hudson Valley Chorale and Rockland County Choral Society, honoring 250 years since Beethoven's birth.

Winter Harbor Music Director (Conductor)

Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona (a brief comic opera)

Socially distanced, outdoor performance with orchestra

Saturday, August 16 at 6pm at Gouldsboro Town Park

Sunday, August 17 at 2pm at Gouldsboro Town Park

2019:

Hudson Valley Chorale (Conductor/Artistic Director)

Sunday, January 20, 2019 at 3pm

Dominican Convent, Sparkill, NY

Handel: Zadok the Priest; Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik;

Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass

 

New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble (Guest Conductor)

Sunday, March 31, 2019 at 3pm

Julia Richmond Auditorium, 317 E. 67th Street, Manhattan

Beethoven: Egmont Overture, and Symphony No. 8

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Katie Lansdale, violin)

Bronx Opera (Chorus Master)

Apr 27-28, May 4-5 (7:30, 2:30)

Lehman College, Bronx; Lovinger Theater

​Gilbert and Sullivan: The Mikado
 

Hudson Valley Chorale (Conductor/Artistic Director)

Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 3pm

Dominican Convent, Sparkill, NY

Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes;  PDQ Bach Liebeslieder Polkas

14th Annual Spring Gala Concert (Conductor)

Sunday, June 9 at 4pm - Christ Church , Oyster Bay

End of season concert featuring the Christ Church Adult Choir and Festival Orchestra.

St. Augustine of Canterbury, London, England (organist)

Sundays, August 4, 11, and 18 (2019)

Mr. Haigler is honored to be the guest organist at St. Augustine in Highgate, an historic church in north London.

Point Counterpoint Adult Piano Workshop (co-Director)

Friday, September 6, 2019 at 7pm (Brandon, Vermont)

In the Inaugural seasons of PCP's Adult Piano Workshop, Mr. Haigler performs Ravel's Ondine at the faculty recital, and collaborative works with fellow faculty members Arielle Levioff and Diana Fanning.

National Council of Jewish Women recital (duo pianist)

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 1pm (241 W. 72nd St., NYC)

Mr. Haigler and his wife Arielle Levioff, present a duo-piano recital featuring the music of brother and sister, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn.

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All Souls Service and Fauré Requiem (Conductor)

Friday, November 1, 2019 at 7pm

Commemorating all the faithful departed, the Combined Choirs of Christ Church present Fauré's Requiem (complete).

Virtuoso, a World Premiere musical (Featured pianist)

Friday, November 22, 2019 at 2pm; DiMenna Center (450 W. 37th St., NYC)

A fascinating and stylistically ecclectic new musical by Matthew Hardy.

A Festival of Lessons and Carols (organist/conductor)

Sunday, December 15 at 4pm

Christ Church in Oyster Bay, NY (61 East Main St.)

Lincoln Center Messiah Sing-In (Guest Conductor)

Wednesday, December 19 at 7:30pm

David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center (NYC)

Mr. Haigler is honored to represent the Hudson Valley Chorale and Christ Church Oyster Bay as a guest conductor in the National Chorale's 51st Annual Messiah Sing-In.
 

2018 (highlights)

​Hudson Valley Chorale (Conductor/Artistic Director)

Sunday, January 21, 2018 - A Bernstein Spectacular!

Celebrating Leonard Bernstein's 100th birthday, including Chichester Psalms, and highlights from West Side Story, Candide, and On the Town, and many others!  (Tickets at door)

St. Thomas Boys Choir (Conductor)

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 6pm

Christ Church welcomes Daniel Hyde and the St. Thomas Choir School in Manhattan for a very special concert, culminating in a performance by both church's choirs, conducted by Mr. Haigler.

2017 (highlights)

AAGO Honor's Recital (Organist)

Sunday, April 29. 2017 at 3pm - Garden City Community Church

A Recital of Associates of the AGO (including organ virtuoso Chelsea Chen), Mr. Haigler will play music of Bach and American composer Emma Louise Ashford.

13th Annual Spring Gala Concert (Conductor)

Sunday, June 3, 2017 at 4pm - Christ Church , Oyster Bay

Music of American Composers, including Randall Thompson, Virgil Thomson, and Leonard Bernstein, with the Christ Church Festival Orchestra.

North Shore Music Festival (Chorus Master )

Sunday, July 16 & 22, 2017; Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love)

The 12th Annual Spring Gala (Conductor)

Sunday, June 4, 2017; Schubert's Mass in G and Mozart's "Tantum Ergo"

Hudson Valley Chorale (Artistic Director and Conductor)

Sunday, May 21, 2017  - 10th Anniversary concert; favorites of the HVC

Bronx Opera: Verdi's Falstaff (Chorus Master)

April 29-30; May 6-7, 2017

2016 (highlights)

The Count of Luxembourg and other tales (Conductor)

October 20-29th, 2016

New Camerata Opera

"Hail Gladdening Light": A Poly-Choral Celebration (Conductor)

Sunday, June 5 & 12, 2016 - Christ Church, St. Patrick's, Huntington (NY)

Celebrating ten years of concerts at Christ Church, and five years at St. Patrick's, two churches combine forces for an epic musical celebration.

Schubert's Winterreise  (Pianist, with Robert Frankum, baritone)

Sunday, March 15, 2016 at 4pm

Christ Church, Oyster Bay (NY)

Midland Chorale (MI) "Rhythm of your Voice" (Guest Conductor)

Midland Center for the Arts in Midland, Michigan

Sat-Sun, March 5-6, 2016

2015 (highlights)

Mozart: Requiem (Guest Conductor)

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Westchester Chorale

Tenth Annual Spring Gala Concert (Artistic Director/Conductor)

Sunday, June 7, 2015
Christ Church, Oyster Bay, NY

J.S.Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2

Vivaldi: Gloria

Mozart: Marriage of Figaro (Chorus Master)

Bronx Opera: May 2, 3, 8, 9

Lehman College, Lovinger Theater (Bronx)

Seniors Orchestral Society of New York (Associate Conductor)

Saturday, April 18 at 6:30pm

Calvary Episcopal Church, Manhattan

Hamptons Choral Society (Guest Pianist)

March 22, 2015 at 3pm

Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes

 

Bronx Opera (Conductor)

Britten: Albert Herring (Conductor for opening night)

Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 7:30pm

Lehman College, Lovinger Theater (Bronx)

2014 (highlights)

October 26, 2014 at 3pm (Conductor) Video preview here

The Larchmont Symphonia Orchestra (100th anniversary concert)

World Premiere: Tedesco: Larchmont Woods (for violin and orchestra)

Joseph Jongen's Symphonie Concertante for organ and large orchesra

Douglas Kostner, organ  Nicole Sharlow, violin

August 29, 2014 at 7pm (Composer)  Word Premiere

Chase (after Haydn), for the Miller-Porfiris Duo

Point Counterpoint Chamber Music Festival, Brandon, VT

 

June 8, 2014 (Conductor/Music Director)

Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes; PDQ Bach: Liebeslieder Polkas

Concerts at Christ Church (Oyster Bay)

Seniors Orchestral Society of New York (Conductor)

April 26, 2014 at 8pm

Calvary Episcopal Church, Manhattan

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 - N.Y.C. Premiere of LVB's revisions

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