Yale Schola Cantorum and Orchestra to Perform Handel's JUDAS MACCABEUS, 1/25

The Yale Schola Cantorum and Orchestra of period instruments will perform George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Judas Maccabeus" on Sunday, January 25 at 7 pm. David Hill will conduct the concert.

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 100 years. Schola Cantorum was under the direction of conductor Masaaki Suzuki from 2009 until 2013. Beginning in 2013-2014, Schola's principal conductor is David Hill, while Suzuki remains affiliated as principal guest conductor. In addition to performing regularly in New Haven and New York, the choir records and tours nationally and internationally. Schola Cantorum has toured internationally in England, Hungary, France, China, South Korea, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Japan and Singapore.

David Hill has a long and distinguished career as one of the leading conductors in Europe. His talent has been recognized by appointments as chief conductor of The BBC Singers, musical director of the Bach Choir, chief conductor of the Southern Sinfonia, music director of Leeds Philharmonic Society, and associate guest conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. In 2002, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Southampton in recognition of his services to music. In 2007, he received an honorary Fellowship of the Royal School of Church Music, and in 2010 an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music. Previously, Hill was Master of the Music at Winchester and Westminster Cathedrals, Music Director of the Waynflete Singers, Artistic Director of the Philharmonia Chorus, and Director of Music at St. John's College, Cambridge.

The concert will be free and open to the public.

The Great Music Series, produced by the Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation, Inc., offers a diverse variety of concerts from large scale choral works and organ concerts in the church to chamber music and jazz in the acoustically remarkable chapel. Crucial to the musical programming of the series is St. Bartholomew's Choir, a fully professional choir, and the Boy and Girl Choristers, renowned as one of the finest children's choir in the metropolitan area. The church also possesses an Aeolian/Skinner pipe organ of 168 stops, the largest in New York City and considered to be one of the greatest examples of the American Classic Organ of the 20th century.

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