What We Do

Great Music in a Great Place. St. Bartholomew’s Church has a long history of providing a range of musical expression and experience - secular and sacred, ancient to contemporary - in a stunningly beautiful space. Its Romanesque architecture and Byzantine ornamentation makes St. Bart's one of the city's great architectural gems. 

Since 2010, the Great Music at St. Bart's has been presented by the Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation, an independent 510(c)(3) corporation established to cultivate, promote, sponsor and develop an understanding and love of great music as presented at St. Bartholomew's Church. Currently, MMPAF produces an average of 9 concerts per season.

Originally founded in 1972 to preserve the time-honored tradition of offering major oratorios on Sunday afternoons, Great Music at St. Bart's expanded its range of concerts and repertoire in 1986 in response to a demand from the community for high-quality concerts in the magnificent setting of St. Bartholomew's Church.