RIVERSIDE CHORAL SOCIETY
The Riverside Choral Society has made a specialty of presenting finely tuned performances of great classical works with full orchestra and highly esteemed soloists. Since January 2025, RCS has been under the baton of Dr. John Wilson, who is also Director of Choral Activities at SUNY New Paltz. With Director Emeritus Patrick Gardner, RCS has performed major works by Beethoven, Bruckner, Brahms, Mozart, Schubert, Haydn, Britten, Pärt, Fauré, Harrison, Orff, Stravinsky, Berlioz, Shostakovich, Schnittke, Verdi, and many others at major concert halls throughout the city.
RCS has been a featured performer with the Mostly Mozart Festival, with the Kirov Orchestra with Valery Gergiev conducting at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, and at the Wall-to-Wall concerts at Symphony Space, among others.