The Chapel of the Incarnate Word
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Caritas Concerts
2025-2026 Season
San Antonio Mastersingers
Sunday October 26 @ 4:00 pm
The 2025-2026 season of the Caritas Season will open with a tribute to those who died in the July 4 Guadalupe River flood. Titled “Grace Before Sleep,” the program’s theme veered to a new course after the Hill Country flood took the lives of 138 people and sank most of Texas with grief. The Mastersingers’ music director, Yoojin Muhn, DMA, said the flood left her feeling small and helpless in the face of so much suffering. The concert is free and open to the public but ticket registration is required. Click HERE
KITKA Women's Vocal Ensemble
Sunday February 15 @ 2:00 pm
The Caritas Season is collaborating with Musical Bridges Around The World to bring the women's vocal ensemble, KITKA, to the Chapel of the Incarnate Word. This concert will be part of UNITYFest, an annual project of Musical Bridges. UNITYFest creates meaningful connections through cross-cultural collaborations & celebrates our common humanity. A union of classical & contemporary music from near and far defines our place in this melting pot that is San Antonio.
Agarita and Dr. S. Andrew Lloyd
Sunday February 22 @ 4:00 pm
Part of the 2025-2026 Caritas Concert Series is an attempt to familiarize the local concert community with the the tremendous talent that was either "born" in San Antonio, or makes San Antonio their professional home. On this afternoon, we celebrate Agarita, and Dr. Andy Lloyd. Agarita is familiar to Chapel audiences. Agarita nourishes the local community through artistic collaborations, education, community engagement, and free, adventurous programming. Founded by four musicians rooted in San Antonio, Agarita is devoted to reaching new audiences by reinventing the concert experience. Dr. Lloyd is a concert organist and composer, and the Bess Hieronymus Endowed Professor of Organ and Composition at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Le Chemin de la Croix (The Stations of the Cross)
Sunday March 8 @ 3:00 pm
The Stations of the Cross is a 14 movement composition for organ by Marcel Dupre. Each movement is a reflection on each stanza of the poem, Le Chemin de la Croix by Paul Claudel. Presented twice before in the Chapel of the Incarnate Word, 14 local organists collaborate with 14 readers to offer this monumental work during the Christian Lenten season.
Dr. Seth Nelson and Kevin McCormick
Sunday April 19 @ 3:00 pm
A passionate church musician, Seth Nelson is organist at the 153-year old First Baptist Church of San Antonio. Dr. Nelson, an Associate with the American Guild of Organists, maintains an active concert schedule and has performed in France, the Czech Republic, Poland, England, Germany, Austria, and in the United States. Nelson is the accompanist for the San Antonio Mastersingers, the San Antonio Choral Society, and is on the accompanying faculty of Trinity University. Guitarist and composer Kevin McCormick has studied and performed in Europe, Asia, and the United States. He holds a Diploma in Guitar Performance from the Indiana University School of Music where he studied classical guitar under the tutelage of Ernesto Bitetti, composition with Don Freund, and jazz with David Baker. He earned a degree in English from the University of Notre Dame with a concentration in poetry. Additional guitar studies were with Sergio Notaro at Centro Romano della Chitarra in Rome, Italy.
IlluMen
Sunday May 17 @ 4:00 pm
The Caritas Concerts is looking forward to welcoming IluMen to the Chapel of the Incarnate Word. Founded in 2012 as a professional chamber ensemble, IlluMen is comprised of vocal coaches, choir teachers, opera singers, and other music professionals. The ensemble features a seasoned group of tenor-bass musicians who have a passion for advancing music education through service and performance.