Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415: St. Matthew Passion

Grete Pedersen leads Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415 in a performance of J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion in Woolsey Hall. Free and open to the public. Livestream link Contact: Jeff Hazewinkel All are also welcome to join us for a free pre-concert talk by Markus Rathey at 3 p.m. in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall (SSS), Room 114. Schola Cantorum is a chamber choir that performs sacred music from the sixteenth century to the present day in concert settings and choral services around the world. It is sponsored by Yale Institute of Sacred Music and led by new principal conductor Grete Pedersen. Masaaki Suzuki is the ensemble’s principal guest conductor. Open by audition to students from all departments and professional schools across Yale University, the choir has a special interest in historically informed performance practice, often in collaboration with instrumentalists from Juilliard415. Since its founding in 2009, Juilliard415, that school’s principal period-instrument ensemble, has made significant contributions to musical life in New York and beyond, bringing major figures in the field of early music to lead performances of both rare and canonical works by composers of the 17th and 18th centuries. With its frequent musical collaborator the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, the ensemble has performed throughout Scandinavia, Italy, Japan, Southeast Asia, the U.K., and India.