REQUIEM, a new choral work by Maria Riccio Bryce, will premier at St Luke’s Roman Catholic Church on State Street in Schenectady on Friday, November 4 at 7PM. REQUIEM melds Riccio Bryce’s settings of the traditional Requiem Mass with her own songs of Life, Death, and beyond. REQUIEM features Mezzo Soprano Tess McCarthy and a chorus of 24 voices. Riccio Bryce will conduct and accompany on the piano, alongside Ann-Marie Barker Schwartz, violinist, Andre Laurent O’Neil, cellist, and Norman Thibodeau, flutist. Maria Riccio Bryce is the composer/lyricist of HEARTS OF FIRE and THE AMSTERDAM ORATORIO. In addition to the premiere, REQUIEM will be performed on Sunday, November 6, at 3PM. Free will offering.