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Yale Camerata
Marguerite L. Brooks, conductor MarguerBrooks, conductor
Founded in 1985 by its conductor, Marguerite L. Brooks, the Yale Camerata is a vocal ensemble sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. The group’s singers are Yale graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and experienced singers from the New Haven community. The Camerata performs a widely varied spectrum of choral literature, with a specific commitment to recently composed choral music. It has collaborated with the Yale Glee Club, Yale Philharmonia, Yale Symphony, Yale Band, Yale Chamber Players, Yale Collegium Musicum, the New Haven Chorale, and the symphony orchestras of Hartford, New Haven, and Norwalk. The ensemble has also performed for Yale Music Spectrum and New Music New Haven. The chamber chorus of the Yale Camerata has performed at the Yale Center for British Art and at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.and hastraveled to Germany to perform the Berlioz Requiem with choruses from Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Israel, Great Britain, and the Ukraine. In 2001 the chamber chorus spent a week in residence at Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London, England. The Camerata has been heard on Connecticut Public Radio and on national broadcasts of National Public Radio’s program “Performance Today.” Guest conductors have included Robert Shaw, Jaap Schröder, Sir David Willcocks, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir Neville Marriner, Helmuth Rilling, Nicholas McGegan, and Dale Warland. With the Institute of Sacred Music, the Camerata has commissioned and premiered works of Aaron J. Kernis Martin Bresnick, Daniel Kellogg, Stephen Paulus, Daniel Pinkham, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, among others. The chorus has sung first performances of works by many composers, including Kathryn Alexander, Tawnie Olson, and Francine Trester. Next year, the Camerata, along with the Yale Glee Club, will perform the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven at the United Nations, complete a residency with guest conductor Simon Carrington, and will sing Mahler’s Second Symphony with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Upcoming repertoire includes music of Bach, Mozart, Lang, Poulenc and Britten.
Visit yale.edu/camerata.
See the slideshow of Camerata's first 25 years.
Yale Schola Cantorum
Masaaki Suzuki, conductor
Yale Schola Cantorum, founded in 2003 by Simon Carrington, is a 24-voice chamber choir that sings in concerts and choral services. Supported by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music with the School of Music, and open by audition to all Yale students, it specializes in music from before 1750 and the last hundred years. Since 2009 Schola Cantorum has been under the direction of conductor Masaaki Suzuki.
In addition to performing regularly in New Haven and New York, the choir records and tours nationally and internationally. Schola Cantorum’s live recording with Robert Mealy and Yale Collegium Musicum of Heinrich Biber’s 1693 Vesperae longiores ac breviores received international acclaim from the early music press, as have subsequent CDs of J.S. Bach’s rarely heard 1725 version of the St. John Passion and Antonio Bertali's Missa resurrectionis. A commercial recording on the Naxos label of Mendelssohn and Bach Magnificats was released in fall 2009. Schola Cantorum has toured internationally in England, Hungary, France, China, and South Korea, and will travel to Italy in May of 2011.
This season Masaaki Suzuki will conduct performances of the Monteverdi 1610 Vespers and the Bach St. Matthew Passion with Juilliard415 in New Haven and New York and Italy. In recent years, the choir has sung under the direction of internationally renowned conductors Helmuth Rilling, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir Neville Marriner, Stephen Layton, Paul Hillier, Nicholas McGegan, and Dale Warland. Guest conductors in 2010-11 are Andrew Megill, James O’Donnell, Simon Halsey, and Simon Carrington. Other repertoire to date includes works by Josquin, Manchicourt, Lassus, Willaert, Tallis, Byrd, Guerrero, Gibbons, Taverner, Schütz, Charpentier, Purcell, Handel, Zelenka, Brahms, Bruckner, Poulenc, Stravinsky, Dallapiccola, Britten, Tippett, Feldman, Rautavaara, Gubaidulina, Berio, Bennett, Stucky, MacMillan, O’Regan, and Yale faculty members Ezra Laderman, Aaron Jay Kernis, Ingram Marshall, and Joan Panetti.
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Biber Vespers reviewed March 2012 Choral Journal | learn more
Battell Chapel Choir
Battell Chapel Choir, conducted by graduate choral conducting students,
is open to all Yale students. The choir sings for Sunday services
in the University Chapel during term time and offers two or three
additional concerts. Members are chosen by audition and paid for
singing in the choir. For audition information contact Simon Jacobs.
Marquand Chapel Choir
Marquand Chapel Choir, conducted by graduate choral conducting
students, sings for services in the Divinity School Chapel as well
as for two special services during the year. Members of the choir,
chosen by audition receive credit for participation; section leaders
may elect to receive either credit or remuneration for their participation. For audtion information contact Sara Marks.
Marquand Gospel Choir
Mark Miller, conductor
Marquand Gospel Choir is also sponsored by the Institute. Open to all Yale Students, the choir sings for services in Marquand Chapel once a week as well as for special services during the year. Section leaders are paid for singing in the choir.
Repertory Chorus and Recital Chorus
Repertory Chorus and Recital Chorus, conducted by graduate choral conducting
majors, give up to six performances per year. Members are chosen
by audition, and may elect to receive either credit or remuneration
for their participation.
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