James Chi-shin Liu

Baritone
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Performance Calendar 2025-2026:

Cantata Singers, Boston MA:

Boston Choral Festival

with the choruses of Lexington High School, Arlington High School, and Westborough High School
Program to include:
  • Buxtehude: Cantata, "Ad Manus" from Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75, No. 3 (Zechariah 13:6)
  • Caroline Shaw: "To the Hands," for voices and strings (Shaw after Zechariah 13:6, Emma Lazarus, and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
  • Jonathan Woody: Intent (Texts compiled by the composer)
  • Reena Esmail: when the violin (Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky)
  • Jonathan Dove: Seek Him that Maketh the Seven Stars (Amos 5:8 and Psalm 139:12)
     
    With the high school choirs:
  • Pietro Lappi: In te Domine speravi à 4x4 (Psalm 31/30)
  • Parry: I was glad when they said unto me (Book of Common Prayer after Psalm 122)
  • Trad. arr. Kirchner: "Unclouded Day" (Alwood)
     
  • Noah Horn, conductor
  • Friday, October 17, 2025 at 7:30 p.m., Old South Church, Boston MA
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    King's Chapel Concert Series, Boston MA:

    20 for 25

    Music director Heinrich Christensen kicks off his 25th season with 20 a cappella favorites by Britten, Duruflé, Vaughan Williams, and more
  • Duruflé: Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens, Op. 10
  • Lars Johan Werle: Sonnet 35 (Petrarch)
  • Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs
  • Britten: Hymn to St. Cecilia, Op. 27 (Auden)
  • Trad. arr. James Erb: Shenandoah
  • Trad. arr. Kirchner: "Unclouded Day" (Alwood)
  • Christensen: Very Short Songs (Dorothy Parker)
  • Curtis L. Stewart (arr. Christensen): Lord, build me a cabin
     
  • Heinrich Christensen, conductor
  • Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 5:00 p.m., King's Chapel, Boston, MA.

    • Cantata Singers, Boston MA:

  • Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (Jennens, after the King James Bible and Book of Common Prayer)
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  • Noah Horn, conductor
     
  • Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 3:00 p.m., Sanders Theare, Cambridge, MA
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    Opera51, Concord MA:

  • Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K.620 (Schikaneder, concert performance sung in German with English language dialogue)
  • Role: Papageno
     
  • Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 2:00 p.m., 51 Walden Performing Arts Center, Concord MA
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    King's Chapel Concert Series, Boston MA:

    A Festival of Psalms

  • Byrd: Anthem, "Sing joyfully unto God" (Psalm 81:1-4, Geneva Bible)
  • Schütz: Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 11, No. 10: Motet: "Die mit Tränen säen werden mit Freuden ernten," SWV 378 (Psalm 126:5-6, trans. Martin Luther)
  • Abbie Betinis: Psalm 126: A Song of Ascents (Psalm 126, Book of Common Prayer)
  • Palestrina: Offertory: "Super flumina Babylonis" (Psalm 137 (136): 1, Vulgata Clementina)
  • Billings: Anthem: "Lamentation over Boston," (Billings, after Psalm 137 (136), King James Version, Jeremiah 3:21 and 31:20)
  • Cyrillus Kreek: 4 Taaveti laulud (Psalms of David): "Kiida, mu hing, Issandat! (Bless the Lord, my soul!)" (Psalm 104, Estonian)
  • Robert C Page: Motet: "Where shall I go from your spirit?," (Psalm 139:7-10, Modern English Version)
  • Judith Bingham: The Darkness is No Darkness (after Psalm 139:11, Book of Common Prayer)
  • Ives: The Sixty-Seventh Psalm (Psalm 67, King James Version)
  • McFerrin: The 23rd Psalm (dedicated to my mother) (after Psalm 23)
  • Britten: The Company of Heaven, No. 9: "Whoso dwelleth under the defence of the most High" (Psalm 91:1, 9-11, Book of Common Prayer, 1928)
  • Patricia Van Ness: Birds of the Psalms, No. 10: "Beauty Flew to Me" (van Ness, after Psalm 91)
  • Brahms: Motet, "Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein rein Herz," Op. 29, No. 2 (Psalm 51:10-12, after Martin Luther)
  • Graham Gordon Ramsay: Motet, "Laudate Dominum" (Psalm 150, Vulgata Clementina)
     
  • Heinrich Christensen, conductor
  • Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 5:00 p.m., King's Chapel, Boston, MA.

    • Cantata Singers, Boston MA:

  • Neustadter: Memory of Water (after Itäranta)
  • Stravinsky: Les noces, K040 (Stravinsky, compiled from songs collected by Kireevsky)
     
  • Noah Horn, conductor
     
  • Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 7:00 p.m., Houghton Chapel and Multifaith Center, , Wellesley, MA
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    Cantata Singers, Boston MA:

  • J.S. Bach: St. John Passion, S. 245 (Anonymous and John 18-19)
  • Noah Horn, conductor
     
  • Saturday, March 14, 2026 at 7:30 p.m., James Hugh Powers Hall, Needham Town Hall, MA
  • Sunday, March 15, 2026 at 3:00 p.m., Sanders Theare, Cambridge, MA
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    King's Chapel Concert Series, Boston MA:

  • Handel: Solomon, HWV 67 (possibly Mendes, after 1 Kings, 2 Chronicles, and Antiquities of the Jews, Chapter 8)
     
  • Heinrich Christensen, conductor
  • Sunday, March 22, 2026 at 5:00 p.m., King's Chapel, Boston, MA.

    • Cantata Singers, Boston MA:

  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in d, Op. 125 (after Schiller)
  • with the Brockton Symphony Orchestra, John Masko, Music Director
     
  • Saturday, May 16, 2026 at 7:00 p.m., Stoughton High School, Stoughton, MA
  • Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 3:00 p.m., First Church in Cambridge Congregational
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    Opera51, Concord MA:

  • Verdi: Falstaff (Boito after Shakespeare)
  • Role: Sir John Falstaff
     
  • June 5-7, 2026, 51 Walden Performing Arts Center, Concord MA
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    Last updated: January 7, 2026
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