About Us

Mission Statement

Schola Cantorum on Hudson (SCH) is committed to Global Cultural Impact through:

  • Passionate musical experiences
  • Strong educational support for high performance expectations
  • Innovative programming designed to touch lives
  • Artistic leadership by premiering new works

The Road to Global Impact

Schola Cantorum on Hudson was formed as an independent choral ensemble in the fall of 1995. Its members have been drawn together by a shared love of great choral music and by a dedication to the highest standard of performance of that repertoire. Beyond that, the group has come, increasingly, to live into the powerful experience of making music, and the belief that in doing so, a positive difference is made in the world.

When the group of singers that founded what became known as Schola Cantorum on Hudson was originally seeking a name and a logo for this choral ensemble, which had its birth in Jersey City, much that the group would become could not possibly have been envisioned. Yet, one thing was clear: There were to be as few limitations as possible.

“Schola Cantorum” (literally “school of singers”) was the name by which the very first groups of singers were called, as early as the eighth century. The Hudson River remains a waterway that represents the New World. The underlay of the logo, which was the artistic product of a small group of Schola’s founding members, similarly captures this open-ended temporality in its progression from early notational styles to those of the post-modern era…and the rest is history; or, so the saying goes.

All that took place between the birth of a Jersey City independent chorus with lofty goals of quality singing in an area which, at that time, was little marked by classical culture, and the international activity level seen today in this semi-professional ensemble of trained voices could fill a book. Now with equal home-base performance arenas in Manhattan and New Jersey, and prominent international experience to boot, the Schola Cantorum on Hudson of the 21st Century has expanded its mission, its sphere of activity, its performing membership, its administrative structure, its number of performances and performing ensembles, and added a number of unique and innovative programs and new educational offerings—while never leaving behind the original vision of high-quality performance and education.

We are proud of the caliber of our singing, our diverse and unusual programming, our ever-expanding educational offerings, and special programs. We are happy with the ‘organic’ way in which our growth continues. Most of all, we are joyfully focused on a vision that is lofty and long-term; for it is the road to global cultural impact!

Artistic Director

Dr. Deborah Simpkin King is a choral and vocal performer and educator, working primarily in the northern New Jersey/NYC area. As Founding Artistic Director of the forty-voice choral ensemble Schola Cantorum on Hudson, her choral work is favorably reviewed. She is Director of Music at The First Presbyterian Church (Ramsey, NJ), and owns an independent voice studio in Essex County. She frequently guest-conducts and provides choral workshop sessions, focusing on vocal production, sight reading, and other matters of the choral art.

The thread of continuity that connects Dr. King’s various activities is her fundamental belief that music is a gift, possessing the potential for profound impact on the human spirit, which can nurture all of us throughout our lives. It is this perspective that informs all of her activities, from polished performances to vigorous insistence on the development of fluency in sight singing. One reflection of her commitment to this mission is her initiation of competitive sight singing as part of the NJ-ACDA High School Choral Festival, which she has coordinated since 1994, and for which new material is commissioned annually. Equally consistent within her mission is the programming and polishing of performances for maximum impact on all those sharing them.

Dr. King is an active member of Chorus America, Classical Singer Society, American Choral Directors’ Association, the National Association for Teachers of Singing, and the Conductors’ Guild. She is privileged to have served on the NJ-ACDA Board of Directors since 1991.

Dr. King holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of North Texas; a Master of Music in Music Education from North Texas State University; and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Texas Christian University. Her mentor of twenty years was Caro Carapetyan, whose choral work was the subject of Dr. King’s master’s thesis (Caro Carapetyan: His Choral Beliefs and Practices, 1981). Dr. King is also a published editor and writer. Her edition of full anthems by Baroque composer John Blow, published by Oxford University Press, has been very favorably reviewed, and her dissertation, The Full Anthems and Services of John Blow and the Question of an English Stile Antico, was honored with the 1990 University of North Texas Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Award for Scholarly Communication. Dr. King continues her research and writing activities primarily through the development of programs and program notes for the three ensembles of Schola Cantorum on Hudson.

Dr. King has two sons: Patrick Daniel, Segment Producer with Comedy Central’s The Daily Show; and Michael Alexander, currently a student in the Master of Divinity program of Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia.

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Board of Directors & Administration

Salvatore A. Diana (Sal), Board Chairman, brings a unique fusion of skills and experiences his administration leadership of the Board of Schola Cantorum on Hudson. Mr. Diana is Senior Vice President, Creative Director for Draft FCB Healthcare, a full-service marketing and communications agency owned by Interpublic Group. Over the past 10 years, he has amassed a wealth of experience in the areas of marketing, advertising, and management with work on behalf of both global and domestic clients, as well as servicing the State of New Jersey advertising account for its foster care and adoption campaign, among other government agency efforts.

Mr. Diana’s education at Wagner College formed the foundation of his passion and advocacy for the arts. While at Wagner, he earned a degree in vocal performance, toured extensively with the college choir, and performed as a soloist. Since then, Mr. Diana has performed throughout the tri-state metropolitan area as an ensemble singer and featured soloist for opera companies, concert series, and church choirs including two years with Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. Mr. Diana is a proud singing member and soloist entering his tenth season with Schola Cantorum on Hudson and his fourth year as Board Chairman.

Sophia K Zalios, Vice-Chair and Director of Operations, is a Director for PURE High Net Worth Insurance, the first and only insurance company exclusively dedicated to providing coverage to high net worth individuals. Before joining that firm, Ms. Zalios spent 10 years with Amica Insurance, as Assistant Branch Manager in their Chicago and Danbury offices. Ms. Zalios has spent her entire career in insurance industry developing her customer service and marketing skills. In addition to her work with the SCH Board of Trustees, Ms Zalios also sits on the Post-1983 Danbury Police Pension Board. She lives in Danbury, CT with her husband, Joseph.

Christina Blosser, Secretary, has been employed in various roles in advertising, sales, and marketing. Ms. Blosser has worked with diverse brands and companies, from Black & Decker to The San Francisco Ballet to Bristol Myers Squibb. At present, she is Senior Vice President, Group Management Director for GSW Worldwide.

Ms. Blosser graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in Radio, TV and Motion Pictures, as well as Speech Communications. She was originally a theater major; her passion for the arts was established during her high school years in Athens, Ohio, where she was an active member of Ohio Valley Summer Theater’s musical productions as well as singing competitively in the All-State choir. After college, Ms. Blosser interned in the marketing department at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. Her volunteering and philanthropic activities have included The United Way, The Northern California Epilepsy Foundation, and The Parkinson’s Foundation. In addition to her work with SCH, Ms. Blosser’s current volunteering activities include New York Cares and Friends of the High Line.

William (Tim) Carpenter, Treasurer, graduated from Colgate University and Syracuse Law School. Mr. Carpenter practiced law in Newark for 35 years and is currently employed as an adjuster for Chartis in its Asbestos Claims Department.

He has been a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Montclair for more than 30 years where he has served for three terms on the Vestry. Mr Carpenter has been Junior Warden twice, Treasurer for four years, and a member of the Vestry’s Finance Committee for over ten years. He also sang in the St. John’s choir for 25 years, including eleven years under the direction of Dr. Deborah Simpkin King.

In the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, Mr. Carpenter was member of the Diocesan Council for four years, a member of the Standing Committee for six years, and has been a Trustee of the Episcopal Fund and Diocesan Properties for over ten years, including serving as its President for three. He has also been the Chancellor of Trinity and St. Phillip’s Cathedral in Newark for 15 years and is the current Church Attorney. In addition to his other community service activities, Mr. Carpenter has also been a member of the Board of Trustees of Canterbury Village, a non-profit Assisted Living facility in West Orange, New Jersey, for over 10 years, serving as President for five years. Mr. Carpenter has also served as a Board Member of its corporate parent, Health Alliance for Care in Hackettstown for the past several years.

Mr. Carpenter has four children and two grandchildren.

Daniel Brondel, Assistant Secretary, is the Associate Music Director at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, and is the founding Artistic Director of The Cathedral of Saint Patrick Young Singers. Previously, Mr. Brondel served as Director of Music at Saint Malachy's Church (The Actors' Chapel), also in midtown Manhattan.

He had the distinct honor of being invited to be the organist at one of the papal events during Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to New York City in April 2008. After conducting the St. Patrick Young Singers during the papal service, Mr. Brondel played a few Bach organ works that were broadcast live on worldwide television for fifteen minutes.

Mr. Brondel was trained as a pianist in his native France, shaped as a choral conductor by the methods of the late Robert Shaw in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, and holds a Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music. Before moving to New York City, he was the University Organist at the University of Rochester for eight years. As organist, Mr. Brondel won First Prize in the 1996 Poister Competition, and was the Second Prize winner of the 1996 National AGO Competition held in New York City. He is also an accomplished countertenor, having sung in oratorios and in opera, notably the lead role of Oberon in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Eastman Opera Theatre. Mr. Brondel has also appeared as the alto soloist in Bach's St. John's Passion at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. He is featured as solo sopranist in Aural Borealis, a critically-acclaimed CD recording by Publick Musick.

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Christine Andreoli is a New York litigation attorney and family law mediator with a deep commitment to the arts. Ms. Andreoli has sung with numerous church, college and community ensembles and participated in local theatrical productions. Ms. Andreoli has performed in New York Grand Opera’s fully-staged Central Park productions of Tosca, La Traviata, Aïda, and Il Trovatore, and she studies privately with its Artistic Director, Maestro Vincent La Selva. Ms. Andreoli is also a member of Church Music Association of America and a student in The Juilliard School‘s Opera Performance Workshop.

In addition to her volunteer work for SCH, Ms. Andreoli is a volunteer for the New York Grand Opera and a member of its Guild. Ms. Andreoli is also a performing member of the New York City Bar Association Entertainment Committee and she has also produced, and performed in, concerts for the Chamber Music Committee of the City Bar. As an attorney, she has been active in pro bono work, and received an Award for Outstanding Legal Advocacy from Sanctuary for Families for her work on behalf of victims of domestic violence.

Ms. Andreoli received her undergraduate degree in Government from Cornell University and her J.D. cum laude from Fordham University School of Law where she was a member of the Fordham Law Review, the National Trial Advocacy Team and the Moot Court Board. She was trained as a mediator by The Center for Family & Divorce Mediation in Manhattan.

Sandy Martiny is Director of Education at National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, in New York City. Before her appointment at the National Academy, Ms. Martiny was Curator of Education at the Jersey City Museum. She had also been a teaching artist affiliated with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and Essex Area Council for the Arts as well as an independent community artist active in Hoboken, New York, Newark, and Jersey City. She was Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Studio Heights in Jersey City, a non-profit organization that created opportunities for artists, community members, and children to make public works of art for their neighborhoods. In the late 1990’s Ms. Martiny served on the board at Stevens Cooperative School as a parent volunteer and development officer.

Ms. Martiny is a passionate advocate for the arts—as an educator, as a mentor, as a practitioner, and as a collaborator. She sees herself as one who builds relationships and encourages others to achieve their potential. She became a singing member of SCH in 2006 and she serves on the Development Committee. She previously performed with the Cantigas Women's Choir in Hoboken, and grew up singing in her church and high school choirs.

Patrick Tobin is Vice President and Associate Creative Director of Draft FCB Healthcare, a full service marketing and communications agency. Today he calls New York City home, though his career has previously taken him to San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Boston.

Mr. Tobin’s unique artistic background includes a wide range of experience in both consumer and business-to-business advertising. His design skills have been enlisted for large national companies such as Monster.com, Sun Microsystems, and Merck. He has also provided support for Historic Massachusetts, a Boston based non-profit committed to preserving the cultural heritage of New England. Mr. Tobin earned a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art.

Alexander Wentworth is a Senior Staff Engineer at ITT Aerospace/Communications Division in Clifton, NJ, with 26 years of experience. Working as a software engineer, he has designed and developed software for military radios and other networking equipment. He has been a singing member of SCH since its inception. He has been a board member since July 2002, and served as Treasurer from July 2003 to June 2005. A longtime Hoboken, NJ resident, Mr. Wentworth was a founding trustee of the Hoboken Evangelical Free Church, and served as its treasurer from 1985 through 1986. He has sung in a number of ensembles and choirs in Hudson County.

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Staff and Administration

Rachel Carter-White, Executive Director and Operations Director of Project Encore™, has held the position of Executive Director of Schola Cantorum on Hudson since 2007. Ms. Carter-White’s focus has been, primarily, in the development arena. She has worked for various non-profit arts organizations including: Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Midori and Friends, and The Friends of the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

Ms. Carter-White also maintains an active performing schedule. As a dramatic soprano, she has been seen in performances with One World Symphony, California Music Festival, New York Opera Forum, Opera on Tap, and Portland Opera. A frequent recitalist, Ms. Carter-White has performed extensively in her native Virginia, North Carolina, California and New York, with works ranging from Bach to Birtwistle. An interest in contemporary music led her to collaborations with many composers in the New York area and performances with groups like Anti-Social Music and Vox Novus, and Brooklyn College’s ConTempo Ensemble under the direction of Tania León.

Ms. Carter-White earned her Bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from the Manhattan School of Music, and her Master's degree in vocal performance from Brooklyn College. She lives on Long Island with her husband and son.

Maureen Dowdell, Director of Public Relations, and member of the Artistic and Membership Development (AMD) Team, is entering her second season with SCH as a singer. A writer/producer/performer who relishes the invitation of a blank piece of paper, Ms. Dowdell brings a distinctive grouping of talents to the SCH community. Her marketing and entertainment industry experience spans the spectrum of media and communications from print to live theater to film. A summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa graduate of West Virginia University, Ms. Dowdell earned a B.A. in Music and a B.S. in Journalism, becoming the first double major student in the University’s history to graduate with highest honors from two separate colleges concurrently.

Ms. Dowdell’s commitment to community service began as a member of the board of Women in Film, an international service organization. She was elected President of the Atlanta Chapter, and her role expanded to serving on advisory panels for the Georgia Film Commission and the Fulton County Arts Council. For five years, Ms. Dowdell worked on the CBS television series In the Heat of the Night in various capacities—in the script department, as MGM Studio Liaison, and as Assistant to Executive Producer and star of the series Caroll O’Connor. She also guest-starred on the series in a recurring role as Tracey Boggs under the direction of such notables as Larry Hagman, Reza Badiyi, and Russ Mayberry.

Karen Lea Siegel, Publications Manager, is a Documentation Specialist with Fujitsu America, Inc. where she has worked for 11 years on a wide variety of IT development and delivery projects. Ms. Siegel earned a B.A. in English Literature, magna cum laude, from Potsdam State College, where she also sang for several years in Crane Chorus of the Crane School of Music at Potsdam under the direction of N. Brock McElheran. A major highlight was singing with the chorus for the unveiling ceremony of the Statue of Liberty in 1986 as part of the Statue’s centennial celebrations (her first and last television appearance). She has been a singing member of SCH since the fall of 2001, and Publications Manager since the fall of 2005. Ms. Siegel also sings with the church choir of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Metuchen, NJ under the direction of organist and choir master Karl Watson. She resides in Edison, NJ with her husband Donald, a chemistry professor at Rutgers University.

Andrew P. Jones, Manager, Schola Sings Solo, is a project manager with more than eleven years of experience in the Information Technology arena, working with a wide range of projects and audiences. His focus has been primarily on the integration of the human factor and systemic processes.

Mr. Jones earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education from Covenant College, where he majored in voice and trombone. He studied with Dr. Ed Hamm (TN) and Carmel Harris (NY). He also studied theatrical American Sign Language Interpreting at the Juilliard School. The 2009-2010 season is his third singing with SCH and his second season managing Schola Sings Solo. Mr. Jones also sings with the choir at St. John’s in the Village, as well as serving as Master of Ceremonies there. He lives in Greenwich Village, NY.

Lisa Laskowich, Schola Sings Solo Accompanist, has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway, as well as with regional theaters for both opera and musical theater. She has served as a vocal coach in Europe, and for the past two years was the Vocal Director of the Jakarta International Summer Music Festival in Indonesia. Last year, Dr. Laskowich was Music Director for Jekyll and Hyde in Naples, Florida and also made her Carnegie Hall debut playing keyboards for Vivaldi’s Gloria. She resides in Manhattan and earned her doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music.

Barbara Novak, Accompanist, is pleased to be joining Schola Cantorum on Hudson this season. Ms. Barbara Novak, accompanist, is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and also earned two Masters Degrees from the University of Mississippi. Additionally, she studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Ms. Novak is an accomplished pianist, organist, and conductor. She recently retired from the Clifton Public School system where she was a music teacher. She has worked extensively as a music director and producer for numerous shows both in public education and community theater, and is vice president of the Theatre League of Clifton. Ms. Novak is presently on the teaching staff at Caldwell College, and is the organist and choir master at Christ Episcopal Church in Glen Ridge.

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Artistic and Membership Development Team

The Artistic and Membership Development (AMD) Team comprises three positions providing member services and acting as a singer cultivation task force. The purpose of the team is to extend our artistic leadership and to better address membership development. The current AMD Team includes Salvatore Basile, Maureen Dowdell, and John Paul Poplawski.

SCH Performing Ensembles

Schola Cantorum on Hudson (SCH) is the critically-acclaimed 40-voice mixed ensemble which is the core of the SCH organization. Singing membership is a mix of recent college and conservatory graduates, well-qualified amateurs, and seasoned professionals, each of whom is selected by audition and interview. SCH presents three primary concert series each season, each of which is performed at least twice—once in Manhattan, once in New Jersey. Repertoire represents a wide variety of musical styles that encompass Renaissance through newly-commissioned works, a cappella and orchestral repertoire, and through its annual Ethnic Celebration Series, music of many nations. Many SCH singers are active professional or amateur soloists, and all soloists for SCH concerts are drawn from within membership. Independent preparation of musical material is an expectation of SCH members.

Schola Repertory Singers (SRS) is a chamber ensemble of sixteen to twenty voices selected from within the SCH membership on the basis of more extensive audition in sight singing, alternative intonations, and vocal flexibility. Singers participating in SRS are those interested in the challenge of additional, and often more intricate, musical material. This group has premiered a number of highly challenging compositions. Preparation is almost entirely independent, as rehearsal time is quite limited. SRS makes some repertoire contribution to most SCH concerts, and also takes on additional performing opportunities outside of the SCH season, and in a variety of locations. Most of Schola’s Repertory Singers are professionally trained.

The Schola Sings Solo (‘Solo’) cast of singers is the group of professionally trained singers from within SCH membership interested in solo recital presentation. The cast develops a traveling show each season, which is a unique blend of arias, art songs, and show tunes. Audition requires presentation skills in a variety of dramatic styles. Designed to market and showcase Schola’s professional voices, and to nurture and cultivate high-level solo performance skills, Solo offers its cast coaching in dramatic skills. Cast size is flexible, based on ability and interest in this additional unique realm of activity; typically ten to twelve singers.

Music Education

From its inception, education has been central to the mission of Schola Cantorum on Hudson. The same breath that blew life into the first SCH performance season also birthed its Siamese twin, in the form of education programs. At no point has the work been about ‘pretty sounds today,’ but rather about building ‘bridges to impact,’ through skill development and meaningful experiences. Schola’s Boards of Trustees, from the very beginning, embraced a vision that was long-range and broad-scale—a vision that meant bringing many along on the journey. That meant education; and it still does!

Click here to learn more about Schola’s educational offerings for students, members of the community, and its own singing membership.

Performances

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Season 14

American Ambassadors Tour

  • Performances:
    • Sunday, August 10, 2008 in Vienna, Austria
    • Monday, August 11, 2008 in Bad Schönau, Austria
    • Tuesday, August 12, 2008 in Český Krumlov, Czech Republic
    • Thursday, August 14, 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic
    • Sunday, August 17, 2008 in Salzburg, Austria (European Premiere of Svane Mass)
  • Repertoire
    • Mass by Randall Svane
    • How Can I Keep From Singing?, American folk tune, arrangement by Ronald Staheli
    • i thank You God, text by e.e. cummings, music by Elliot Levine
    • Simple Gifts, American Shaker tune, arrangement by Stephen Leek
    • Lux aurumque by Eric Whitacre
    • O magnum mysterium by Morten Lauridsen
    • Alleluia by Randall Thompson
    • Almighty Father by Leonard Bernstein
    • I wanta die easy when I die, arrangement by Roger Wesby
    • Ride on, King Jesus, arrangement by Roger Wesby
    • I Know the Lord’s Laid His Hands On Me, arrangement by Moses Hogan
    • Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit, arrangement by Moses Hogan
    • Plenty Good Room, arrangement by Jesse Padgett
    • Shenandoah, American folk song, arrangement by James Erb
    • Island in Space by Kirke Mechem
    • There Will Be Rest by Frank Ticheli
    • Bitter for Sweet by John Chorbajian
    • Sing Me to Heaven by Daniel E. Gawthrop
    • Blue Skies by Irving Berlin, arrangement by Zegree/King

’Tis the Season

  • Performances:
    • Sunday, December 7, 2008 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Jersey City, NJ
    • Friday, December 12, 2008 at St. John’s in the Village, NY, NY
  • Repertoire:
    • The Virgin by Derek Healey
    • Ave Maria by Franz Biebl
    • The Great “O” Antiphons by John Muehleisen
    • Child of Sweetness by John Karl Hirten
    • The Frozen December by Thomas A. Miller
    • Dixit Maria ad angelum by Hans Leo Hassler
    • Nova, nova, ave fit ex Eva, arrangement by Richard DeLong
    • This Day is Born Emmanuel by Michael Praetorius, arrangement by Linda Spevacek-Avery
    • Gaudete, traditional English carol, arrangement by J. David Moore
    • O magnum mysterium by César Alejandro Carillo
    • I Wonder As I Wander by John Jacob Niles, arrangement by Steven Pilkington
    • Ah, Dearest Jesu, Holy Child by Philip Lawson
    • Be We Merry by James Ryman, arrangement by Steven Sametz
    • Resonet in Laudibus, 14th-century German carol, arrangement by Chester L. Alwes
    • Go, Tell It On the Mountain, American Spiritual, arrangement by Roland Carter
    • Sing We Now of Christmas, traditional French carol, arrangement by Fred Prentice

Messiah

  • Performances:
    • Friday, December 19, 2008 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Jersey City, NJ
    • Saturday, December 20, 2008 at St. Malachy’s Church (The Actors’ Chapel), NY, NY

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Music of Norway

  • Performances:
    • Sunday, March 15, 2009 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Jersey City, NJ
    • Saturday, March 21, 2009 at St. Malachy’s Church (The Actors’ Chapel), NY, NY
  • Repertoire
    • Springdans Fra Vesthold, arrangement by Tone Krohn
    • Villeman og Magnhild, medieval ballad, arrangement by Linn A. Fuglseth
    • Bruremarsj frå vågå, arrangement by Tone Krohn
    • How Fair is Thy Face by Edvard Hagerup Grieg
    • Ave maris stella by Evard H. Grieg
    • Ave maris stella by Trond Kverno
    • Trinity by Ola Gjeilo on a text by John Donne
    • Norge, mitt Norge by Alfred Paul Jennings, arrangement by Kenneth Jennings; text by Theodor Caspari, translation by Kenneth Jennings
    • Ja, vi elsker by Rikard Nordraak, text by Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    • Immortal Bach by Knut Nystedt
    • Procession: Laudate Dominum by Svein Møller
    • Prayers of Kierkegaard by Knut Nystedt
    • Springar Frå Bergen by Øidyrin Sommerfeldt
    • Ned I vester soli glader, text by Anders Hoven, arrangement by Margaret King
    • Ekorn gjekk pa volln og slo, traditional Norwegian folksong, arrangement by Margaret King
    • Kvite vengjer, Thomas Beck on a text by Olav Nygard
    • Trolldans, folksong, arrangement by Henrik Lyssand
    • Eg veit I himmerik ei borg, arrangement by Magnar Ǻm
    • Bruremarsj fra Sorfold, folk tune, arrangement Bjorn Andor Drage
    • Unicornis Captivitur by Ola Gjeilo

Space, Light & Discovery

  • Performances:
    • Sunday, May 17, 2009 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Jersey City, NJ
    • Friday, May 29, 2009 at First Presbyterian Church, Ramsey, NJ
    • Saturday, May 30, 2009 at St. Malachy’s Church (The Actors’ Chapel), NY, NY
  • Repertoire
    • At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners by Willametta Spencer on a text by John Donne
    • Island in Space by Kirke Mechem
    • Stars by Kenneth Fuchs on a text by Robert Frost
    • Stars from Three Nocturnes by Dan Forrest on a text by Sara Teasdale
    • Lux aurumque by Eric Whitacre on a text Edward Esch
    • Adagio by Samuel Barber
    • The Silence by Andrew Bleckner
    • There Will Be Rest by Frank Ticheli on a text by Sara Teasdale
    • Earth Song by Frank Ticheli
    • Fields of Gold by Gordon Sumner, arrangement by Roger Wesby
    • How Can I Keep From Singing?, American folk hymn, arrangement by Ronald Staheli
    • Ye shall have a song from A Peaceable Kingdom by Randall Thompson
    • A Jubilant Song by Norman Dello Joio
    • Dance from Invocation and Dance by David Conte on a text by Walt Whitman

Schola Sings Solo

  • Performances:
    • Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Jersey City, NJ
    • Saturday, January 31, 2009 at First Presbyterian Church, Ramsey, NJ
    • Saturday, February 7, 2009 at St. John’s in the Village Church, NY, NY
    • Saturday, February 21, 2009 at St. Malachy’s Church (The Actors’ Chapel), NY, NY
    • Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at St. Michael the Archangel Church, Bayonne, NJ
  • Repertoire
    • Love in the Dictionary by Celius Dougherty
    • When I was seventeen by Swedish folksong
    • “Willow” from The Ballad of Baby Doe by Douglas Moore
    • “O soave fanciulla” from La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini
    • “Summertime,” from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin
    • Was soll der Zorn, mein Schatz, der dich erhitzt? by Hugo Wolf
    • “Piangerò la sorte mia,” from Giulio Cesare in Egitto by Georg Frideric Handel
    • “Monica’s Waltz,” from The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti
    • “The Vagabond” from Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughn Williams, text by Robert Louis Stevenson
    • “Chacun le sait,” from La Fille du Regiment by Gaetano Donizetti
    • “Chi dal cielo,” from La Fida Ninfa by Antonio Vivaldi
    • Brother, Can You Spare a Dime by Jay Gorney
    • Séparation by Frédéric Chopin, text by Pauline Viardot, arranger
    • “Vesti la giubba,” from I Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo
    • “Amor, vida de mi vida,” from La Maravilla by Federico Moreno Torroba
    • What’ll I do? by Irving Berlin
    • “Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro,” from Le Nozze de Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • “Habanera,” from Carmen by Georges Bizet
    • “Toreador Song,” from Carmen by Georges Bizet

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