GRAMMY®-winning conductor Stephen Stubbs to lead Yale Voxtet in Scarlatti anniversary performances

The Yale Institute of Sacred Music will present two performances of Alessandro Scarlatti’s powerful oratorio Il martirio di Sant’Orsola, led by GRAMMY® Award winning conductor Stephen Stubbs and performed by Yale Voxtet with Juilliard415, Juilliard’s acclaimed period-instrument ensemble. The concerts will commemorate the 300th anniversary of Scarlatti’s death, offering a rare opportunity to hear this dramatic sacred work alongside two short oratorios by Giacomo Carissimi: Historia di Job and Historia di Jephte.

Stubbs is internationally recognized as one of the foremost conductors and lutenists in early music and baroque opera. Along with Amanda Forsythe, Paul O’Dette, and Robert Mealy, he won the 2026 Grammy award for best classical solo vocal album for The Boston Early Music Festival’s recording of Georg Philipp Telemann’s cantata “Ino” alongside opera arias for soprano. His collaboration with Yale Voxtet and Juilliard415 brings together leading young vocal artists and one of the field’s most distinguished interpreters of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century repertoire.

The first performance will take place Friday, February 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven, CT). This concert will also be livestreamed. 

The program will be repeated on Saturday, February 14 at 4 p.m. at Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church (552 West End Avenue, New York City; entrance on 87th Street).

Both concerts are free and open to the public. No tickets required. 

The Yale Voxtet is a group of eight singers from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music who specialize in early music, oratorio, and chamber ensemble under the direction of James Taylor, professor in the practice of voice. The Voxtet performs a variety of programs, tours, and makes recordings as part of Yale Schola Cantorum. The current Voxtet members are Izzy Barbato, M.M. ‘26; Eden Bartholomew, M.M. ‘27; Gwendolyn DeLaney, M.M. ‘27; Sam Denler, M.M. ‘26; Matthew Dexter, M.M. ‘26; John Richardson, M.M. ‘27; Scottie Rogers, M.M. ‘26; and Lucas Zuehl, M.M. ‘27.

Juilliard415 is the principal period-instrument ensemble of the Juilliard School in New York City. Since its founding in 2009, the group 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.