Following our three-day retreat and preview concert in the Pocono Mountains, Coro Mundi will return to Philadelphia with an exciting program featuring the premiere of two works by composer Alex Berko. The centerpiece of the program will be the Philadelphia premiere of Berko’s Sacred Place, a six movement work for choir, piano, violin and cello that Berko calls “an impassioned prayer for the world we inhabit and share."  

"Sacred Place is an ecological service that connects the old with the new, the sacred with the secular, and the individual with their community.  […] the text is made up of writers and thinkers who speak of the environment as a place of safety, comfort, and beauty" says Berko, a young American composer whose music has been described as “stirring” (The New York Times), “intoxicating” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and “disarmingly beautiful” (Textura).

The choir will also sing the world premiere of Berko's Limits of Your Longing, commissioned for this occasion by Coro Mundi, as well as works by Palestrina, Edwin Fissinger, Marek Raczynski, and Moira Smiley.

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The performance is Coro Mundi’s first at St. Vincent de Paul, a beautiful and acoustically warm church at 109 E. Price St. in Philadelphia. Twenty-five percent of the proceeds from the sale of tickets will go to Face to Face Germantown, a nonprofit that provides fresh, hot meals and legal, health and social services to local families and individuals experiencing poverty.