The Crossing with Nathalie Joachim

Commissioning music that “explores and expands ways of writing for choir, singing in choir, and listening to music for choir”, Philadelphia’s The Crossing is celebrated as the originator of a new canon of American choral music. The Crossing holds four Grammy awards, and was Musical America’s 2024 Ensemble of the Year. For What Now: 2026, their conductor and chorus master Donald McNally will commission a new piece from Haitian-American Grammy-nominated performer artist Nathalie Joachim who has been hailed by The Nation for being “a fresh and invigorating cross-cultural voice”. The new piece will be presented with selections of the Crossing’s repertory creating a historical retrospective of their unique body of music.