In-Person
Yale Schola Cantorum in Rome: Haydn's Creation
- General Public
From May 25-31, 2026, principal conductor Grete Pedersen leads Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415 in a tour of Italy, performing Franz Joseph Haydn's The Creation in five locations. This oratorio masterpiece by Haydn depicts and celebrates the creation of the world as narrated in the Book of Genesis. The performance will be sung in German.
The May 31 concert will be performed at Chiesa di San Paolo entro le Mura (St Paul’s Within the Walls),
Via Napoli 58, 00184 Roma
Presented by Opera di Roma.
Contact: Jeff Hazewinkel
Yale Schola Cantorum is a chamber choir that performs sacred music from the sixteenth century to the present day in concert settings and choral services around the world. It is sponsored by Yale Institute of Sacred Music and led by new principal conductor Grete Pedersen. Masaaki Suzuki is the ensemble’s principal guest conductor. Open by audition to students from all departments and professional schools across Yale University, the choir has a special interest in historically informed performance practice, often in collaboration with instrumentalists from Juilliard415.
Since its founding in 2009, Juilliard415, that school’s principal period-instrument ensemble, has made significant contributions to musical life in New York and beyond, bringing major figures in the field of early music to lead performances of both rare and canonical works by composers of the 17th and 18th centuries. With its frequent musical collaborator the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, the ensemble has performed throughout Scandinavia, Italy, Japan, Southeast Asia, the U.K., and India.