CHRISTOPHER DYLAN HERBERT’s
Voices in the Wilderness:
Music of the Ephrata Cloister
CD & Digital
Release Date: November 20, 2020
This is an album comprised of a cappella hymns written by the residents of the Ephrata Cloister, an eighteenth-century celibate community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Some of the music is by the solitary sisters of Ephrata, who are the earliest known composers in America. This is the first time this music has been performed by a professional ensemble, and it was recorded in the room for which the music was originally written.
ARTISTS
Christopher Dylan Herbert, music director & producer
Elizabeth Bates, soprano
Clifton Massey, alto
Nils Neubert, tenor
Steven Hrycelak, bass
Joseph Greey, engineer
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ABOUT CHRISTOPHER DYLAN HERBERT
Christopher Dylan Herbert is a musicologist and baritone who performs frequently throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He is a two-time GRAMMY® nominee. He has soloed with The San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony, and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, performed with International Contemporary Ensemble and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and he regularly presents Winterize – an outdoor adaptation of Winterreise with transistor radios. He frequently develops new opera and concert works, including commissions by Hannah Lash, Gregory Spears, Laura Kaminsky, and Ellen Reid. Dr. Herbert holds a B.A. in Music from Yale University, an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, and a D.M.A. in Voice from The Juilliard School. He is the head of the voice program at William Paterson University in New Jersey. His current research focuses on the music of the eighteenth-century Ephrata Cloister in Pennsylvania. He was the baritone in the critically acclaimed ensemble New York Polyphony from 2010 to 2020.