Schola Tour

Jenna-Claire Kemper

In conjunction with the ISM Study Tour, Yale Schola Cantorum traveled to Greece and Turkey, performing with its founding conductor Simon Carrington.
In Istanbul, Schola Cantorum performed at Aya Irini, a stunning Byzantine church located on the grounds of Topkapi Palace. The choir shared the concert stage with Rezonans, a Turkish choir founded in 2010 under the direction of Burak Onur Erdem. In Athens, Schola performed at St. George’s Parish, a beautiful Greek Orthodox church that is home to ISM visiting faculty member Father Stefanos Alexopoulos.

Both concerts featured works by two composers on the faculty of the Yale School of Music, Christopher Theofanidis and David Lang. The works selected for the concerts also marked two important composer anniversaries last year: the 400th anniversary of the death of the great Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria, and the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Hungarian pianist and symphonic composer Franz Liszt.

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