Yale Schola Cantorum and Instrumentalists from the Yale School of Music – David Hill, conductor

Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 7:00 pm

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 hundred 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.

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