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The Yale Schola Cantorum, founded in 2003, is a 24-voice student chamber choir specializing in music from before 1750 and from the last 100 years. Simon Carrington is the group’s founder and conductor; it is supported by the Institute of Sacred Music with the Yale School of Music. In addition to performing regularly in New Haven, New York, and Boston, the choir records and tours nationally and internationally. Schola Cantorum’s repertoire to date includes music by Josquin des Pres, Orlando di Lasso, Tallis, Schütz, Monteverdi, Bach, Charpentier, Stravinsky, Britten, Einojuhani Rautavaara, James MacMillan, and Yale faculty composers Ezra Laderman and Aaron Jay Kernis. In May 2005 the choir toured southern England, and in August the group was the featured chamber choir at the Monteverdi Choir Festival in Budapest. In February of 2005, a CD of Heinrich Biber’s 1693 Vesperae longiores ac breviores, recorded live in New Haven and New York City by Schola Cantorum with the baroque violinist Robert Mealy and the Yale Collegium Players, was released to great acclaim. Simon Carrington is director of the Yale Schola Cantorum and professor of choral conducting at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and the School of Music, where he has also led the introduction of a new graduate voice track for singers wishing to specialize in oratorio, early music, song, and chamber ensemble. Professor Carrington was a creative force for 25 years with the internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble The King’s Singers, which he co-founded while at Cambridge University. He now maintains an active schedule worldwide as a freelance conductor and choral clinician, leading workshops and master classes all over the world.
Soprano
Margaret Carey
Esteli Gomez
Abigail Haynes
Mellissa Hughes
Kathleen Reeves
Amy Shimbo

Alto
Jennifer Graham
Marisa Green
Ian L. Howell
Sylvia Rider
Annie Rosen
Erin Westmaas

Tenor
Derek Chester
Holland Jancaitis
Haitham Jendoubi
Krishan Oberoi
Zachary Wadsworth
Steven Caldicott Wilson

Bass
Matthew Barnson
Ryan Brandau
Joshua Copeland
Evan Crawford
Mingzhe Wang
Douglas Williams
 
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Bach: St John Passion - 1725 version - Yale Schola Cantorum - Carrington
The rarely performed 1725 version of Bach’s St. John Passion is presented by Yale University’s premier early-music ensembles. Simon Carrington, who initiated his illustrious musical career as cofounder of the King’s Singers, directs this live performance.
   
 
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