Yale Choral Artists to perform at International Festival of Arts & Ideas
The Yale Choral Artists, led by founding Director Jeffrey Douma, will perform music by Yale composers on Friday as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. The program will feature works by Yale School of Music faculty composers Aaron Jay Kernis ’83MM and Christopher Theofanidis ’94MMA ’97DMA, former faculty composer Ingram Marshall, and alumni composers Caroline Shaw ’07MM and Michael Gilbertson ’13MM ’21DMA.
“Much of the Choral Artists' work is devoted to new music, and after our last project featuring the music of Heinrich Schütz and Herbert Howells, we wanted to delve again into some newer works," Douma said. "It's an understatement to say that we have an abundance of riches here at the Yale School of Music—some of the most exciting composers in the world have studied, taught, and made music here in our own community, and many have made important and innovative contributions to the choral repertoire. The works we (will) perform on Friday are … beautiful and highly evocative: the cascade of voices in Ingram Marshall's Hymnodic Delays, Aaron Kernis' virtuosic Ecstatic Meditations, Caroline Shaw's intimate and heartfelt and the swallow, Michael Gilbertson's elegant and beautifully crafted Three Madrigals After Dowland, and Chris Theofanidis' brilliant setting of the (musically inspired) poetry of Denise Levertov for violin and a cappella choir.”
Douma, who also serves as Professor of Choral Conducting at the School of Music and Director of the Yale Glee Club, founded the Yale Choral Artists, a project-based professional ensemble, in 2011 to “enhance and enrich Yale’s strong commitment to the choral arts.” Members of the Choral Artists perform in the United States and around the world with such organizations as Chanticleer, Conspirare, the Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Seraphic Fire, the Trinity Wall Street Choir, Voices of Ascension, and others.
The Yale Choral Artists will perform on Friday, June 21, at 8 p.m., in Morse Recital Hall.
