Three Choirs Concert

Yale Schola Cantorum, Yale Camerata and Yale Glee Club will join together for performance in Woolsey Hall. This event is free and open to the public. Livestream link Contact: Jeff Hazewinkel Yale Schola Cantorum is a chamber choir dedicated to performing sacred music from the sixteenth century to the present day in concerts and choral services around the world. Sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, the ensemble is led by internationally acclaimed Norwegian conductor and educator Grete Pedersen, whose career spans four continents and brings together historical depth and contemporary vision. Masaaki Suzuki serves as principal guest conductor. Open by audition to students from all departments and professional schools across Yale University, the choir has a particular focus on historically informed performance practice, often collaborating with period-instrument ensemble Juilliard415. Yale Camerata is a seventy-five-voice vocal ensemble whose members are Yale graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and experienced singers from the New Haven community. Conducted by Dr. Felicia Barber, the ensemble performs a widely varied spectrum of sacred choral literature, with a special commitment to choral music of our time. The Camerata was founded by Marguerite L. Brooks in 1985. Founded in 1861, the Yale Glee Club is Yale’s principal undergraduate mixed choir and oldest musical organization. The students who sing in the Yale Glee Club might be majors in music or engineering, English or political science, philosophy, or mathematics. They are connected by a love of singing and a collective understanding that raising one’s voice with others to create something beautiful is one of the most noble human pursuits. The ensemble is conducted by Jeffrey Douma.