Cynthian Knight, winner of the first-ever New York Tartan Week Gaelic Mòd, will join the line-up of award-winning musicians performing traditional Scottish and Irish holiday classics at the 25th Annual Pipes of Christmas in New York City and New Jersey on December 16 and 17, 2023. Concert highlights will also be streamed to a worldwide audience on December 22-31, 2023.
A classically-trained mezzo-soprano with extensive performance credits, Knight was a Fellow with Westminster Choir College’s operatic training program, CoOPERAtive, and made her European debut with Opera du Pèrigord performing the title role in Offenbach’s Orphée aux Enfers.
In addition to main stage opera roles, Cynthian appears regularly in concert and recitals. She has been a featured soloist in Bach’s Magnificat, St. John Passion, Cantatas BWV 29 and 147, Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat, Mozart’s Requiem, Duruflé’s Requiem, and Rene Clausen’s A New Creation. She has premiered new works in concert and workshop by composers Laura Karpman, Recep Gul, and Suby Raman.
Ms. Knight joins a diverse company of award-winning Pipes of Christmas performers from Scotland, Ireland, and the United States, including include guitarist and music director Steve Gibb from Inverness, Scotland, James Robinson and Andrew Weir from the film “Braveheart,” New England fiddle champion Paul Woodiel, US National Champion harpist Rachel Clemente, and the Pipe Major Kevin Ray Blandford Memorial Pipe Band from Redlands, CA.
The 25th performance of the acclaimed concert will include a combination of beloved Christmas carols, including “Highland Cathedral”, “Silent Night”, and “Joy to the World”, the world premiere of works commissioned exclusively for the production, and poetry and literature readings drawn from the Scottish Christmas tradition.
Tickets now available
Tickets are now available via the Pipes of Christmas website. Reserved seating is available for both live performances. Access to the global webcast can also be booked in advance.The concert is hosted by the Learned Kindred of Currie, a non-profit cultural and educational organization dedicated to preserving and promoting Scottish and Highland heritage and the arts. As its primary fundraiser, the Pipes of Christmas enables the Kindred’s extensive programming and community outreach initiatives, which including scholarships, awards, cultural exhibitions, and much more. Corporate sponsorship and advertising opportunities are available, and a fundraising campaign is currently underway to offset production expenses and ensure that ticket sale proceeds go directly toward the Kindred’s programming.
About “The Pipes of Christmas”
Since its debut 25 years ago in 1999, The Pipes of Christmas has played to standing-room-only audiences. Now a cherished holiday event, the concert gives audiences a stirring and reverent celebration of the Christmas season and the Celtic spirit. Audience-goers return year after year to experience the program, many reporting that the Pipes of Christmas has become part of their family’s annual Christmas tradition.
The concert has been lavished with critical acclaim. In his review for Classical New Jersey Magazine, Paul Somers wrote, “The whole evening was constructed to introduce gem after gem and still have a finale which raised the roof. In short, it was like a well-constructed fireworks show on the Glorious Fourth. The Westfield Leader described the concert as “a unique sound of power and glory nowhere else to be found.”
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