This year, TRANScend celebrates Pride by showing love to transgender & queer composers, and sharing their love with you!

The TRANScend Chorale presents music inspired by our own members thoughts on queer love, featuring an incredible lineup of trans composers and arrangers including Michael Bussowitz Quarm, Hope Salmonson, and our very own Atlas A. Lee-Reid. The repertoire covers the full range of queer love from the passionate to the bittersweet, subtextual, and platonic, and includes an original piece by our Chorale director Hannah Cai Sobel. 

Our Ambassadors ensemble showcases queer love across the ages through liturgical, pop, and new music. From Dominique Phinot, a Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer who was executed for being openly gay, to Sam Smith, the Ambassadors highlight the way queer love thrives in music. Their modern pieces include songs from Suzanne McCoy’s queer musical, “Here I Am,” as well as an original composition by David Sisco & L Morgan Lee, based on interviews with our singers.

Across all the ages of queerness, our love for each other remains constant. Whether in a closet or in a parade, no matter the political environment or our personal hardships, our love keeps us alive and connects us. It’s still the same love.