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It’s been a busy winter for the members of the Yale Voxtet, the Institute of Sacred Music’s select group of eight singers.

The ISM is seeking a faculty member in Black sacred music and associate director for the Interdisciplinary Program in Music and the Black Church.

Masaaki Suzuki will conduct Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard415 in a program of Bach music in New York (Feb. 21) and New Haven (Feb. 22).

Congratulations to current and former ISM students in The Crossing for their Grammy win in Best Choral Performance. 

Professor Markus Rathey shines a light on the purpose and the source of Bach’s Actus tragicus, soon to be performed by Yale Schola Cantorum. 

In January, a group of eleven Yale students and five faculty visited the world’s oldest continuously-inhabited monastery in Sinai.

On a cold January day, Yale’s Marsh Botanical Garden was the scene of an “en plein air” workshop led by Jon Seals, artist in ISM’s new exhibit. 

Four Chicago artists will explore the intersection of religion and ecology in a new exhibit at the ISM from January 22 to March 6.

The ISM is delighted to announce the appointment of Grete Pedersen as the new principal conductor of Yale Schola Cantorum. 

Watch the full video and view a slideshow from “Joyeux Noël”, the Yale Camerata’s 2024 Advent concert, performed in Woolsey Hall on Sat. Dec. 7. 

Anna Kuzina-Rozhdestvenska’s Agnus Dei was performed in Woolsey Hall on November 10. 

The 2025 Grammy Award nominees were recently announced, and the Institute of Sacred Music was well represented!