The 2025-2026 Schola Cantorum season begins with the much-loved setting of Jesu, meine freude (BWV 227) by J.S. Bach. The program also includes Domine, salvum fac Regem (Dieterich Buxtehude), O lieber, Herre Gott (Heinrich Schütz) and Selig sind die Toten (Heinrich Schütz).

Free and open to the public.

This event will not be livestreamed, but will be recorded and made available to view online afterward.

All are also welcome to join us for a free pre-concert lecture by Markus Rathey, the Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Musicology and Theory at the ISM and Yale Divinity School, prior to the performance. The lecture will presented in the Parish Hall of Christ Church New Haven.

Join us on Sunday, October 12 at 4 p.m. for a very special alumni concert to begin a year of events and performances celebrating the 40th anniversary of Yale Camerata, the ISM’s seventy-five-voice vocal ensemble whose members are Yale students, faculty, staff, and experienced singers from the New Haven community. Along with the Yale Camerata, the concert will feature an alumni chorus. The concert will be led by all three of Camerata’s conductors—founder Maggie Brooks, Andre Thomas, and current director, Felicia Barber. Yale Camerata, Camerata Alumni Chorus and invited guests will present a musical celebration spanning four decades of glorious sacred choral literature.

This concert is free and open to the public, and will also be livestreamed. The music will feature highlights from Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, and works by Dove, Villette, Robles, and Howells.

BWV 65: Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen (They will all come forth out of Sheba) 

BWV 78: Jesu, der du meine Seele (Jesus, who has rested my soul)

Guest conductor Nicholas McGegan leads Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415 in a performance of George Frideric Handel's Jephtha (HWV 70) in New York City. This concert will be held at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.

Based upon the Old Testament story of Jephtha (Judges Chapter 11), this oratorio, believed to be the last one written by Handel, is based upon Jephtha's rash promise to God. 

Guest conductor Nicholas McGegan leads Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415 in a performance of George Frideric Handel's Jephtha (HWV 70) in New Haven. This concert will be held at Woolsey Hall.

Based upon the Old Testament story of Jephtha (Judges Chapter 11), this oratorio, believed to be the last one written by Handel, is based upon Jephtha's rash promise to God. 

Immerse yourself in the peace and joy of the holiday season in our signature concert experience, which seamlessly blends favorite carols and songs drawn from ten centuries, accompanied by the “velvet ribbon of sound” of cellist David Heiss and the “relentlessly beautiful” playing of harpist Parker Ramsay, along with English horn, trumpets, and alto saxophone.