Monday Evening, June 29, 2015, at 7:30Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman Stage

Saint Thomas More, The Catholic Chapel & Center At Yale University

Presents

ALLELUIA!INAUGURAL CONCERT OF THE

CENTER FOR MUSIC AND LITURGYSTEPHEN LAYTON, Conductor

RICHARD GARD, Director

Saint Thomas More, the Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University

REVEREND ROBERT L. BELOIN, PH.D., ChaplainKATHLEEN BYRNES, Assistant Chaplain

JENNIFER SCHAAF, OP, Assistant Chaplain

Yale University

SHARON M.K. KUGLER, Chaplain

Honorary Patrons

HIS EMINENCE TIMOTHY CARDINAL DOLANArchbishop of New York

THE MOST REVEREND LEONARD P. BLAIR, S.T.D.Archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut

THE MOST REVEREND FRANK J. CAGGIANO, S.T.D.Bishop of Bridgeport, Connecticut

THE MOST REVEREND DAVID M. O’CONNELL, C.M.Bishop of Trenton, New Jersey

PLEASE SWITCH OFF YOUR CELL PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES.

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Domine ad adjuvandum, Vespers for the (1567–1643) Blessed Virgin (1610) INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL CHORUS DAVID SKINNER, Conductor

J.S. BACH Sheep May Safely Graze, Cantata 203 (1713) (1685–1750) NATIONAL CHILDREN’S CHORUS LUKE MCENDARFER, Conductor

Veni, Creator Spiritus (9th century plainchant) INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL CHORUS RICHARD GARD, Conductor

WILLIAM BYRD Ne irascaris Domine (1589) (1543–1623) THE CHOIR OF SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY DAVID SKINNER, Conductor

THOMAS TALLIS If Ye Love Me (1560) (1505–1585) INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL CHORUS RICHARD GARD, Conductor

ANTON BRUCKNER Ave Maria (1861) (1824-1896) INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL CHORUS RICHARD GARD, Conductor

TOIVO KUULA Auringon Nousetessa (1908) (1883–1918) TAPIOLA CHAMBER CHOIR HANNU NORJANEN, Conductor

KNUT NYSTEDT O Crux (1978) (1915–2014) OSLO CHAMBER CHOIR HÅKON DANIEL NYSTEDT, Conductor

This performance of “O Crux” is in tribute to the lifeof Knut Nystedt, an acknowledged master of thechoral art and lover of humanity. The Oslo Chamber Choir is conducted by his grandson.

ØRJAN MATRE Halleluja, vår strid er endt (2015) (b. 1979) (World Premiere) INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL CHORUS HÅKON DANIEL NYSTEDT, Conductor

Intermission

JULIAN DARIUS REVIE Mass of the Divine Shepherd (2015) (b. 1979) (World Premiere) INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL CHORUS, ORCHESTRA, AND HANDBELLS STEPHEN LAYTON, Conductor KAROLINA WOJTECZKO, Mezzo-soprano STUART NEILL, Tenor

1. Kyrie / Lord, Have Mercy 2. Glory to God 3. Children of God 4. I Believe 5. Celestial Liturgy 6. The Lord is My Shepherd 7. Holy, Holy, Holy 8. The Lord’s Prayer 9. Lamb of God

Texts AND TRANSLATIONSDomine ad adjuvandum,

Vespers for the Blessed VirginCLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567–1643)

Deus, in adjutorium meum intende.Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina.

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto,

sicut erat in principio et nunc et semperet in saecula saeculorum. Amen. Alleluia.

Sheep May Safely Graze, Cantata 203J.S. BACH(1685–1750)

Schafe können sicher weiden, wo einguter Hirte wacht,

Schafe können sicher weiden, Schafekönnen sicher weiden,

wo ein guter Hirte wacht, wo ein guterHirte wacht.

Wo Regenten wohl regieren, kann manRuh’ und Frieden spüren,

und was Lánder glücklich macht.Wo Regenten wohl regieren, kann man

Ruh’ und Frieden spüren,und was Länder glücklich macht.

Veni, Creator Spiritus(9th century Plainchant)

Veni, creator Spiritus, mentes tuorum visita, imple superna gratia,quae tu creasti pectora.

Qui diceris Paraclitus,altissimi donum Dei,fons vivus, ignis, caritaset spiritalis unctio.

Tu septiformis munere,digitus paternae dexteraetu rite promissum Patrissermone ditans guttura.

God, come to my assistance.Lord, make haste to help me.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, andto the Holy Spirit:

as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.

Sheep may safely grazewhere a good shepherd watches.Where leaders govern well,there peace and plenty are enjoyed,a blessing to all nations.

Come, Holy Spirit, Creator blest, and in our souls take up Thy rest;come with Thy grace and heavenly aidto fill the hearts which Thou hast made.

O comforter, to Thee we cry,O heavenly gift of God Most High,O fount of life and fire of love,and sweet anointing from above.

Thou in Thy sevenfold gifts are known;Thou, finger of God’s hand we own;Thou, promise of the Father, ThouWho dost the tongue with power imbue.

Accende lumen sensibus,infunde amorem cordibus,infirma nostri corporis,virtute firmans perpeti.

Hostem repellas longiuspacemque dones protinus;ductore sic te praeviovitemus omne noxium.

Per te sciamus da Patremnoscamus atque Filium,te utriusque Spiritumcredamus omni tempore.

Deo Patri sit gloria,et Filio qui a mortuisSurrexit, ac Paraclito,in saeculorum saecula.Amen.

Ne irascaris Domine WILLIAM BYRD (1543–1623)

Ne irascaris Domine satis,et ne ultra memineris iniquitatis nostrae.Ecce respice populus tuus omnes nos.

Civitas sancti tui facta est deserta.Sion deserta facta est,Jerusalem desolata est.

THOMAS TALLIS(1505-1585)If Ye Love Me

If ye love me, keep my commandments, And I will pray the Father, And he shall give you another comforter, That he may bide with you forever,Ev’n the spirit of truth.

Kindle our sense from above,and make our hearts o’erflow with love;with patience firm and virtue highthe weakness of our flesh supply.

Far from us drive the foe we dread,and grant us Thy peace instead;so shall we not, with Thee for guide,turn from the path of life aside.

Oh, may Thy grace on us bestowthe Father and the Son to know;and Thee, through endless times confessed,of both the eternal Spirit blest.

Now to the Father and the Son,Who rose from death, be glory given,with Thou, O Holy Comforter,henceforth by all in earth and heaven. Amen.

Be not angry, O Lord, and remember our iniquity no more. Behold, we are all your people.

Your holy city has become a wilderness. Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem has been made desolate.

Ave MariaANTON BRUCKNER (1824–1896)

Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominustecum.

Benedicta tu in mulieribus, Et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobispeccatoribus,

Nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.

Auringon Nousetessa (Sunrise)TOIVO KUULA (1883–1918)Text: V.A. Koskenniemi (1885–1962)

Nää, oi mun sieluni, auringon korkeanousu

ylitse kivisen kaupungin kattojen, katuin,ylitse vuossatain valheen ja tuntien tuskan,koittava kirkkaus!

Nää, oi mun sieluni, katoovan elämänautuus!

Niin kuin ääretön temppeli on se suneessäs,

alla sen holvien on ikiaikojen äänetönhartaus

mestarin hengen.

Nää, oi mun sieluni, yössäkin korkehinkirkkaus,

tuskassa tummien hetkien rauha ja riemu,vuossatain valheessa, elämän valheessa

valkein,ijäisin totuus!

O CruxKNUT NYSTEDT (1915-2014)

O Crux, splendidior cunctis astris, Mundo celebris, Hominibus multum amabilis, Sanctior universis;Que sola fuisti digna Portare talentum mundi: Dulce lignum, dulces clavos, Dulcia ferens ponderaSalva presentem catervam,

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is withthee,

Blessed art thou among women, And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for ussinners,

Now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

See, O my soul, how the sun rises overthe rooftops,

Over the wide stony wilderness of thisbleak city,

Over the centuries of falsehoods andmoments of misery,

Bold dawning brightness!See, O my soul, see the bliss of our lifefrail and fleeting!

Like an infinite temple it stands beforethee, under

its somber vaults in ancient silence thesoul of the master

Breathes never-ending.See, O my soul, how the blackest ofnights turn to dawning,

Moments of darkest despair to relief andrejoicing,

See how amidst ancient falsehoods of lifestill the brightest

Truth stands eternal!

—translation by Jaakko Mäntyjärvi

O Cross, more radiant than the stars, Celebrated on all the earth, Beloved of the people,Holier than all creation: Which alone was found worthy To bear the light of the world: Blessed Tree, blessed Nails, Blest the weight you bore: Save this flock which today

In tuis hodie laudibus congregatam.Alleluia.

Halleluja, vår strid er endt (Hallelujah,the strife is over)

ØRJAN MATRE (b. 1979)

En liten sønn av Davids rot,som og er Gud tillike.For våre synders skyld forlotsitt høie himmerike.Det var Ham svært at tenke påat jorden skulle under gå,det skar Ham i hans hjerte;I sådan hjertens kjærlighetHan kom til oss på jorden nedat lindre all vår smerte.Som natten aldri er så sortden jo for solen svinner.Så farer all min kummer bortnår jeg mig rett besinnerat Gud så hjertens inderligav evighet har elsket migog er min broder vorden.Jeg aldri glemmer disse ordsom klingede i englekor:Nu er det fred på jorden!Halleluja, vår strid er endt!Hvo vilde mere klage?Hvo vilde mere gå bespendti disse frydedage?Syng høit i sky, Guds kirkeflokk:Halleluja, nu har jeg nok,den lyst er uten like!Halleluja, Halleluja!Guds sønn er min, jeg går herframed ham til himmerike!

Is gathered to praise you. Alleluia.

Of David’s root a little Son,Who is also God forever,For Adam’s sin to make undoneCame down from highest Heaven.It was too great a pain for HimThat earth should perish in worldly sin,It tore His heart asunder.With a heart of love immensely greatHe thus came down, to share our fate,And heal the pain of sinners.Just as the winter’s darkest nightMust flee when morning rises;So shall my troubles all take flightIf my mind well surmisesThat God in all sincerityEternally has so loved me,That He became my brother now and ever.I shall remember these few words,That chimed once in angelic chords:Now Peace on Earth forever!Hallelujah, our struggle ends,Who would still have bitter voice?Who would feel sad, who would lack friends,When earth and Heav’n rejoice?Sing in the skies, ye Christians, sing out,Hallelujah, I’m free of doubt,My happiness is beyond measure.Hallelujah, the Son divine,I go with Him, He is now mine,To Heaven, to my treasure.

—Translation: Nils August Andresen

Mass of the Divine ShepherdJULIAN DARIUS REVIE (b. 1979)

1. Kyrie / Lord, Have Mercy

Kyrie, eleison.Christe, eleison.Kyrie, eleison.Lord, have mercy.Christ, have mercy.Lord, have mercy.

2. Glory to God

Glory to God in the highest,and on earth peace to people of good will.We praise you,we bless you,we adore you,we glorify you,we give you thanks for your great glory,Lord God, heavenly King,O God, almighty Father.Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son,Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father,you take away the sins of the world,have mercy on us;you take away the sins of the world,receive our prayer;you are seated at the right hand of the Father,have mercy on us.For you alone are the Holy One,you alone are the Lord,you alone are the Most High,Jesus Christ,with the Holy Spirit,in the glory of God the Father.Amen.

3. Children of GodGalatians 3:26-28, Matthew 18:4

We are children of God by faith.You are baptized in Christ; you are clothed in Christ.We are children of God by faith.There is neither Jew nor Gentile; there is neither slave nor free;Nor is there male or female: for we all are one in Christ Jesus.We are children of God by faith.Humble yourself like a child, and you shall inherit the Kingdom of God.We are children of God by faith in Christ the Lord.

4. I Believe

I believe in God,the Father almighty,Creator of heaven and earth,and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,born of the Virgin Mary,suffered under Pontius Pilate,was crucified, died and was buried;he descended into hell;on the third day he rose again from the dead;he ascended into heaven,and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty;

from there he will come to judge the living and the dead.I believe in the Holy Spirit,the holy catholic Church,the communion of saints,the forgiveness of sins,the resurrection of the body,and life everlasting. Amen.

5. Celestial Liturgy

6. The Lord is My ShepherdPsalm 23

The Lord is my shepherd; nothing shall I want.He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters.He restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil forthou art with me: thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. Thou anointestmy head with oil; my cup overfloweth.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I shall dwellin the house of the Lord forever.

7. Holy, Holy, Holy

Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts.Heaven and earth are full of your glory.Hosanna in the highest.Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.Hosanna in the highest.

8. The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven,hallowed be thy name;thy kingdom come,thy will be doneon earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread,and forgive us our trespasses,as we forgive those who trespass against us;and lead us not into temptation,but deliver us from evil.

9. Lamb of God

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,have mercy on us.Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,have mercy on us.Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,grant us peace.

ØRJAN MATRE Halleluja, vår strid er endt (Hallelujah, thestrife is over)

Notes ON THE PROGRAM

Hallelujah, the strife is over is a tradi-tional Norwegian folk tune. The wordsare by Danish priest and hymn writerHans Adolf Brorson, published in 1739in “Troens Rare Klenodie” (“The RareJewel of Faith”). This version of the

tune is from Ola O. Fagerheim fromSauda. Fagerheim only used the lastverse, and would sing it during funer-als, as the coffin was lowered into theground.

JULIAN DARIUS REVIE Mass of the Divine ShepherdMass of the Divine Shepherd is a one-hour musical exploration of the figureof the Good Shepherd, unfolding asmelodic dialogue between adult choruswith orchestra and antiphonal chil-dren’s chorus with handbells. Betweenthese two stands the audience, a silentbut indispensable third voice, called toactive participation in the mysteries ofthat Shepherd who at once enfolds allin a universal and eternal embrace, andyet lays down his life for each, as if foreach alone.

This Mass is written in memory of mydear friend Dennis Stanton Avery, whopassed away in 2012. Dennis wasinstrumental in my coming to study atCambridge University, his alma mater.After his death, I was asked by theUniversity to write a piece for a memo-rial service held there in his honor. Irecognized from the start that withinthat piece—a setting of the 23rd Psalmfor tenor with organ accompaniment—lay the seeds of something greater;Mass of the Divine Shepherd is the ful-fillment of this artistic vision. TheMass remains centered around thistenor solo, now accompanied by fullsymphony orchestra and, for theCarnegie Hall première, 600 handbells.The sweeping, arc-like structure of theMass reaches its pinnacle at the end of

this solo with its supreme statement offaith: I shall dwell in the house of theLord forever.

The Mass begins with simple, chant-like melodies, sung first by the childrenand answered by the men of the cho-rus, before blossoming into a highlycanonic interplay, as though thesemelodies had sprung to new life, echo-ing through every corner of the hall.Just as sheep trust their shepherd asthey come to know his voice, so thisMass seeks to build a trust relationshipwith the audience by opening with nat-urally flowing, singable melodies. Asthe interplay between children, adults,orchestra, and handbells develops,these melodies lead us, as though bythe hand, as we embark into musicallyricher, more textured territory.

After the childlike innocence of theopening movements, the adults lead aproclamation of the Credo, driven andriveted with rhythmic intensity. In thismovement, the orchestra recapitulatesfragments of sacred music, from thechants of the first Christians to thehymns of our day, generating a cacoph-onous sonic whirlwind embodying afull two thousand years of music allwritten specifically for one Person,overlaid by a soaring statement of the

Resurrection. Relentlessly the menrepeat I Believe in God, hundreds oftimes in this movement—and finallythe children enter, superimposed uponthe adults’ closing life everlasting,singing only four words: I Believe inGod—once, slowly, decisively. Thisleads directly into the children’sresponse to the Creed, which is notsung at all, but played entirely withtheir angelic handbells, high in the bal-conies, bathing the audience in a gentlewash of soft, pure tones.

Then the tenor soloist begins: The Lordis My Shepherd, as the children’s bellscontinue through much of this move-ment. With the final word of thePsalm—forever—the movement doesnot really end, but rather, overlappingwith the next, elevates us into theSanctus, the chorus of Holy, Holy,Holy which we sing on earth as merereflection of the eternal song of praisein heaven that has been from the dawnof time and will be for all eternity. Inthe quietest moment of the Mass, thechildren enter pianississimo, singing amost delicate Hosanna which repeatsand echoes through the hall, reminis-cent of the supplications of the openingmovement.

The final movements, the Lord’s Prayerand Lamb of God, fix our gaze uponthe eternal, through a brooding,extended solo cello line, the rich yetgentle voice of a solo mezzo-soprano,and chant-like melodies sung by themen. Following the close of the Lord’sPrayer, marked in the musical score as“expansive, resplendent,” we return, inthe Lamb of God, to the purity and

vulnerability of children’s voices. Aseach part sings the same melody, but indifferent, slow rhythms, the children insix parts lead the adults into intricate12-part canon. This movement repre-sents unity in its fixed adherence to asingle, simple melody; yet by simulta-neously representing all rhythmic possi-bilities, it looks upward, outward,embracing the universal and the eter-nal. Indeed, it is through this model ofparadox that we hope to enter into thevery mystery of the Divine Shepherd:the eternal, omnipotent God becomeman; the Lord of all who leaves theninety-nine in the wilderness to laydown His life for the one; the Shepherdand the Lamb once slain who lives for-ever.

By choosing for his papal pectoral crossthe image of the Good Shepherd, PopeFrancis reminds us of the centrality forour day of Christ the Savior who,through his tender mercy, reaches outto all without exclusion. As we lookforward to 2016 as the Holy Year ofMercy, it is my prayer that Mass of theDivine Shepherd may draw us all into adeeper trust and confidence in ourDivine Shepherd, who is Love, who isLife, who is Word, whose sheep knowhis voice. For as St. Gregory Nazianzenwrote, “The Good Shepherd, who laysdown his life for the sheep, came insearch of the straying sheep to themountains and hills on which you usedto offer sacrifice. When he found it, hetook it upon the shoulders that bore thewood of the cross, and led it back tothe life of heaven.”

—Julian Darius Revie

Mass of the Divine Shepherd—Theological Reflectionsby V. J. Tarantino

The image of the Shepherd is founda-tional within the Judeo-Christian tradi-tion, originating in Scripture anddepicted in the earliest Christian art.Julian Darius Revie’s Mass of theDivine Shepherd renews in modernidiom the beauty of this ancient devo-tion.

Marie-Dominique Chenu, a councilfather of Vatican II, postulated artisticworks as theological “sources.” Massof the Divine Shepherd stands as adeeply contemplative, intuitively theo-logical composition, with an artisticobjective of spanning and uniting aglobal musical culture in worship. Boththe product and the process of thiswork invite analogy to the EasternChristian tradition of icon writing, inwhich artistic creation is itself condi-tioned and ensouled by prayer, suchthat the art becomes a locus of the pres-ence of the divine.

Tonight, we gather in the name of theShepherd and so are we assured of hispresence among us. Necessary to anyencounter is dialogue; in Mass of theDivine Shepherd, repetition, imitationand canon are no mere device, butengender a colloquy among children,adults, and orchestra, each in a unifiedpersona. Moreover, Revie casts theaudience not as passive spectator, butas a critical, unnotated voice, a recep-tive co-creativity essential to the per-formed work.

The score as written makes use ofexpressive affective notations, drawingout the distinctive spirituality of thepiece; the musicians must take to heartsuch dispositional cues as “reverentlyjoyful,” or “awakening in radiantglory.” These notations presume avibrant interconnection throughout the

hall—an unspoken, contemplativedynamic between performer, audience,and the art itself.

Mass of the Divine Shepherd displays aBonaventurian architecture; threegroupings of three-movement sets nat-urally elide one to the next, recallingthe nine choirs of angels ordering thecelestial hierarchies. A unique choreog-raphy of the singers evokes this sym-bolism dramatically; the audience willexperience itself immersed in sound,compassed in harmonies, as the hallbecomes literally domed with angelicsonority, cascading gently over the peo-ple. In this way, the Children of Godmovement explores the possibilitiesinherent in a single, sustained C majorchord, falling pristine like a blanket ofsnow from above, yet lightly disturbedby repeated C minor sonorities ema-nating in dialogical counterpoint fromthe mezzo-soprano soloist on stage.

In the I Believe movement, a musicalclimax of the piece, the men begin bydroning “I believe in God” after themanner of the rhythmic monotonepriestly prayer of petition associated inearly Judaism with the end of Sukkot,the Feast of Tabernacles. As this chant,more entreating than avowing, per-dures, the orchestra enters with an his-torical compendium of sacred music—from ancient Hebrew plainchant whichJesus himself likely sang, passingthrough all of the ages of the Churchup to today—rising and swirling, lay-ered and overlapped. From there, thewords of the articles of faith are them-selves scrambled, thrown to the wind,as if to denote the ultimate failure ofpropositional truth unless animated bythe Holy Spirit with the substantiallysupernatural theological virtue of faith,and assimilated to the heart as love—

for St. Paul writes, if I have all faith soas to move mountains but do not havelove, I am nothing. As the Holy Spirit,represented in 32nd note quintuplets,comes to the fore, the conclusion of theCreed is overlaid with an echo of themen’s priestly credo—now in the voicesof the children, no longer as petitionbut as spirit-filled affirmation.

Mass of the Divine Shepherd culmi-nates in the Lamb of God, in whichRevie draws upon the full resources ofhis art to “break apart time” and“expand sonority into an infiniterealm,” to express through celestial,

ethereal ambience the mystic image ofthe Lamb focal to the Book ofRevelation, bringing time and eternityinto relationship. The final “grant uspeace” is reserved to the children—tothe pure of heart, who shall see God.The final word “peace,” sung by achild soloist, represents musically thevoice of the Shepherd who is also theLamb, meek and gentle of heart, a tinywhispering sound against the encroach-ing silence. In the end, the incarnatevoice of the Shepherd, of the Lord ofthe Universe, is the delicate treble of atali—meaning, in the Aramaic of Jesus’time, both lamb and boy.

JULIAN DARIUS REVIE, Composer

Australian-Canadian composer JulianDarius Revie is Composer in Residenceof the Center for Music and Liturgy,Saint Thomas More Chapel at YaleUniversity. He was previously Organistat Lake Avenue Congregational Churchin Pasadena, California and at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Ottawa, Canada.

Born in Ottawa, Julian studied piano,organ and clarinet from an early age.He has been a weekly church organistsince the age of eleven. Julian holds adiploma in piano performance from theRoyal Conservatory of Music inToronto; degrees in Biochemistry andMolecular Biophysics from Yale andCaltech; and a Master’s in Compositionfrom Cambridge University, where hedirected the Choir of RobinsonCollege. His master’s dissertation,Unity and Uniqueness in the FifthMode Great Responsories: NewApproaches to the Multifaceted Layersof Plainchant Melody, is an analysis ofgroups of related plainchant melodies

that draws upon techniques used inanalysis of tonal music (specifically,Schenkerian analysis) as well as uponthe mathematical and computationaltools used in comparative geneticanalysis.

Perhaps most important to his musicaldevelopment, Julian has grownthrough many years of private study,first with pianist Sandra Webster and

THE Artists

ØRJAN MATRE, Composer

Ørjan Matre was born in 1979 inBergen and studied composition at theNorwegian Academy of Music withBjørn Kruse, Lasse Thoresen, OlavAnton Thommessen and HenrikHellstenius. He has distinguished him-self as a distinct voice in Norwegianmusic, and has been awarded high-pro-file commissions by leading performers,ensembles and orchestras. The recentyears have included premieres atUltima Festival, Warsaw Autumn,Sound Scotland, Wittener Tage fürneue Kammermusik and DarmstadtFerienkurse. He received the Edvard

Prize in 2012 for his Clarinet Concerto‘Inside Out’. He was Composer inResidence for Oslo PhilharmonicOrchestra in 2013-2014. Matre’s big break came in partnershipwith Evan Gardner, Jan Erik Mikalsenand Jørgen Karlstrøm while several ofthem were still students, with the CD‘Lights Out’ with the Norwegian RadioOrchestra and its leader Rolf Gupta, arelease that caused quite a stir when itwas released in 2006. By 2003, Matrehad already written the orchestralwork “Attempted Birdhouse,” a titlethat alludes to Homer’s attempts atbeing a conceptual artist in an episodeof the Simpsons. Even if Matre allowshimself to play with the artist’s role, hismusic is rock solid and, on the surface,not strikingly humorous. Nevertheless,it possesses a timbre with a delicatetouch that could reveal influences fromcomposers such as Gerard Pesson; theensemble piece Atem serves as a goodexample of this. Like Pesson, Matreblends traditional influences with newplaying techniques, and through well-placed dynamic bursts the composeralso hints at a latent Nordic founda-tion, making it clear for the listener

organist Pamela Hoswitschka inOttawa, and later with composersVeronika Krausas (USC), Bruce Reich(UCLA), and Milton Babbitt, SamuelAdler and most recently Philip Lasser,all at The Juilliard School.

From the home base of his tranquil“composer’s cabin” in the woods ofMonroe, Connecticut, Julian divideshis time between New York City andYale, where he frequently composes forand performs with soloists and ensem-bles. Julian is a winner of the CanadianMusic Competitions and a recipient ofa DAAD scholarship for study in

Berlin. His compositions for soloinstruments, voice, chamber ensemblesand orchestra have been performed inNorth America, Europe, and Australia,in venues including Lincoln Center andthe Sydney Opera House. In his freetime (which he is looking forward toenjoying after tonight), Julian enjoyshiking, tennis, skiing, and kayaking.

Julian is honored that The Love ofGod, a work adapted from the seventhmovement of Mass of the DivineShepherd, has been selected as the com-munion antiphon for the Papal Mass inPhiladelphia this September.

that his output is a multi-layered affair,with more aspects than justtimbre/philosophical experimentation.

Matre’s versatile skill allows him tocomplete commissions with great con-viction, one prime example being theorchestral piece “Händel Mixtapes”where Händel’s original compositionsgradually erode away and are assimi-lated by Matre’s work, a highly originaland inventive twist on post-moderncollage. Other works manifest them-selves as simple melodies with accom-paniment, where the overall contextleaves the listener in a position wherehe/she does not quite understand howone has ended up there in the first

place. Still, the works in which Matreapproaches the more abstract are theones that clearly shows his true charac-ter: his major chamber pieces, theensemble piece Atem as well as his theorchestra pieces. One can still oftenhear elements of tradition in Matre’smusic, a dance rhythm or fragments ofa melody, but they are drawn and sug-gested with such a delicate touch thatthey could almost arise as an odd coin-cidence, akin to seeing faces appear outof the woodwork of a floor. The mutu-al pull between the abstract and moreconcrete, albeit diffuse, “objects” is animportant part of Matre’s music, there-in this contradiction lies much of itsimmediate attraction.

STUART NEILL, Soloist

Through his successful performances inthe world’s finest opera houses and con-cert halls with leading conductors andorchestras, Stuart A. Neill has estab-lished himself as one of the mostimportant tenors in the classical singingworld.

Mr. Neill has appeared at The Metro-politan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, TeatroLa Fenice, Vienna Staatsoper, TheRoyal Opera Covent Garden, TeatroColón, Alte Oper Frankfurt, OperaCompany of Philadelphia, DallasOpera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, TheAtlanta Symphony Orchestra, NewYork Philharmonic, Israel Philhar-monic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, SanFrancisco Symphony, Boston Sym-phony Orchestra and Dresden’sStaatskapelle, and has collaboratedwith conductors Gustavo Dudamel,Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, JamesLevine, John Neshling, Pinchas Stein-berg, Sir Andrew Davis, Lorin Maazel,Edoardo Müller, James Conlon,Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir Roger Nor-rington, nello Santi, as well as the lates

Carlo Maria Giulini, Sir Colin Davis,Wolfgang Sawalisch, Michelangelo Vel-tri, Giuseppe Sinapoli and AntonGuadagno.

Mr. Neill is internationally recognizedfor his interpretation of the tenor role inVerdi�s Requiem, having performed therole more than 200 times, includingfour recordings of the work. His mostrecent engagements include perform-ances of the role of Radames in Aida,Manrico in Il Trovatore, Cavaradossi in

Praised for her “light and free-sound-ing voice—throughout its range”,mezzo-soprano Karolina Wojteczko isearning a reputation for wonderful per-formances on both the operatic andconcert stages.

Ms. Wojteczko’s opera performancesinclude roles in The Pirates ofPenzance and Trial by Jury by W. S.Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, Zita inGianni Schicchi, the Abbess in Puccini’sSuor Angelica; Cherubino in Mozart’sLe Nozze Di Figaro and Third Lady inThe Magic Flute, and Mother inMenotti’s Amahl and the NightVisitors. She joined Opera TheaterConnecticut for the 2012 and 2013seasons as Alicia in Lucia diLammermoor and Giovanna inRigoletto. Other performance credits

include Vicky in David Yazbek’s TheFull Monty and featured soloist on theconcert stage, most recently Faure’sRequiem, Carissimi’s Jephte, Poulenc’sGloria, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Handel’sMessiah in an intimate interpretationfeaturing one voice on a part.

Ms. Wojteczko is the recipient ofnumerous scholarships and awardsincluding the James Somer OperaScholarship, Schoolmasters SpecialScholarship, the Metropolitan OperaNational Council La Camera Guida(New England Regional, 2011), andfirst place winner at the James FurmanCompetition. Ms. Wojteczko has alsowon two honors at the NationalAssociation of Teachers of SingingRegional Competition, and will com-pete in the National Finals again in July2015.

Ms. Wojteczko was born in DabrowaBialostocka, Poland, holds a degree inVocal Performance from WesternConnecticut State University and stud-ies with Dr. Margaret Astrup. She is asection leader and cantor at SaintThomas More Catholic Chapel at YaleUniversity, a voice coach at the Centerfor Music and Liturgy, and a cantor atSaint Michael the Archangel Church inBridgeport, Connecticut, and sheteaches music at St. Mary-St.Michael’sCatholic School in Derby, Connecticut.

KAROLINA WOJTECZKO, Soloist

Tosca, Canio in I Pagliacci, Turiddu inCavalleria Rusticana and the debut roleof Otello in Verdi�s Otello for the The-atre Municipal, Sao Paulo.

Mr. Neill received formal education atThe Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadel-phia, PA where he was a student ofMaestri Christofer Macatsoris, RichardRaub and William Schuman. Mr. Neillstudied privately with Roberta Knie,Elizabeth N. Colson and the late Peter

S. Harrower at Georgia State Univer-sity—Atlanta.

Mr. Neill can be heard on more than adozen classical recordings includingBellini’s Il Pirata for Berlin Classics,Verdi’s Oberto for Philips Classics andthe three Grammy recipient recordingof Stravinsky’s Perséphone with the SanFrancisco Symphony for RCA Red Seal,as well as several regionally availablerecordings.

RICHARD GARD, Conductor

Richard Gard’s musical activity is cen-tered at Yale University where he is theDirector of Music at Saint ThomasMore Chapel and Director of the Cen-ter for Music and Liturgy. Dr. Gard isalso a long-time member of the facultyat the Yale School of Music, and Direc-tor of Undergraduate and GraduateMusic Lessons for the University.

He has performed throughout Europe,Australia, and the United States butnow focuses his performing in the NewHaven area. He is the conductor of theNew Haven Ballet Orchestra as well asthe director of all vocal and chamberensembles at Saint Thomas MoreChapel. During his 50-year career hehas conducted church choirs, largevocal ensembles, studio back-up vocals,opera, musicals, concert band, orches-tral and chamber groups.

Dr. Gard also manages projects creatingdigitized music scores and music educa-tion applications, and is a co-inventoron patents for audio analysis and musiceducation interfaces. He is the ChiefAcademic Officer for Music ProdigyCorporation, a developer of music edu-

cation applications creating digitalcoaches and assessment tools for nota-tion reading, vocal training, elementaryguitar, elementary violin, sight singing,and ear training.

Dr. Gard earned his master’s and doc-toral degrees at Yale University Schoolof Music and holds membership in theAmerican Bach Society, the AmericanChoral Directors Association, the Asso-ciation for Technology in MusicInstruction and the Society for Chris-tian Scholarship in Music.

STEPHEN LAYTON, Conductor

Stephen Layton is the Artistic Directorand Principal Conductor of the City ofLondon Sinfonia. Layton guest con-ducts widely and has worked with theLondon Philharmonic, the Philharmo-nia, the Philadelphia Orchestra, theMinnesota Orchestra, the MelbourneSymphony, the Auckland Philharmonia,the Hallé Orchestra and Chorus, theRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Lon-don Sinfonietta, the English, Scottish,and Irish Chamber Orchestras, theUlster Orchestra, the BournemouthSymphony, the Royal Scottish National,the Northern Sinfonia and Australian

Chamber Orchestras. He has collabo-rated with the Academy of AncientMusic, the Orchestra of the Age ofEnlightenment and the Britten Sinfonia,with whom he has recorded a widerange of repertoire including Handel,Bach, Bruckner, and Poulenc. For theEnglish National Opera, he conductedBach’s St John Passion in a stage pro-duction directed by Deborah Warner.

Stephen Layton is the Conductor ofPolyphony, which he founded in 1986.He has been Music Director of theHolst Singers since 1993. In 2006 hewas made a Fellow and Director ofMusic of Trinity College, Cambridge,where he directs The Choir of TrinityCollege Cambridge. From 1997-2006,he was Director of Music at London’sTemple Church, and from 1999-2004he was Chief Conductor of the Nether-lands Kammerkoor. From 2000-2012he was Chief Guest Conductor of theDanish National Vocal Ensemble.

A champion of new music, StephenLayton has premiered new works andrecordings with a number of composersincluding Arvo Pärt, Thomas Adès andJames MacMillan. His bold realisationof John Tavener’s epic seven-hour vigil,The Veil of the Temple - a new depar-ture in British music - was premiered in2003 at The Temple Church London. Itwas subsequently performed in 2004 atthe Royal Albert Hall during the BBCProms, and in the Avery Fisher Hall,New York, as part of the Lincoln Cen-ter Festival.

Stephen Layton’s discography on Hype-rion ranges from Handel and Bach withoriginal instruments to Pärt,Lukaszewski, Lauridsen, Whitacre and

Ešenvalds. He has received twoGramophone Awards in the UK and theDiapason d’Or in France, the ECHODeutscher Musicpreis in German, theCompact Award in Spain, and fourGrammy nominations in the USA.

Highlights this season include perform-ances of Bach: Mass in B minor withthe Melbourne Symphony Orchestra;Bach: St John Passion with the Auck-land Philharmonia and Choir, and theOrchestra of the Age of Enlightenment& Polyphony in London and at DeSin-gel, Antwerp; Praulins: The Nightingalewith the Danish National Vocal Ensem-ble and Michaela Petri; appearanceswith the MDR Rundfunkchor (Leipzig),Eric Ericson Chamber Choir (Stock-holm), and the Slovenian ChamberChoir. Projects with the City of LondonSinfonia include a performance of Pärt’sLitany, with the Hilliard Ensemble atSouthwark Cathedral; Tavener’s Pro-tecting Veil, with Matthew Barley atChrist Church, Spitalfields; and a con-tinuation of the Fauré Requiem Tour,which began last season.

Highlights in recent seasons haveincluded critically acclaimed perform-ances of Handel’s Joshua, with OperaNorth; Bach: Christmas Oratorio, withthe Copenhagen Philharmonic; Han-del’s Messiah, with the Hallé Orchestraand Chorus; a residency at the Chel-tenham Festival, with The Choir ofTrinity College Cambridge and the Cityof London Sinfonia; performances withPolyphony at the Concertgebouw, Ams-terdam; Three Choirs Festival, with thePhilharmonia Orchestra; and the BBCProms, with the City of London Sinfo-nia.

LUKE MCENDARFER, Conductor

Pianist and conductor Luke McEndar-fer has been on fire since his 2004appointment as Artistic Director of theNational Children’s Chorus (formerlythe Paulist Choristers). Under his direc-tion, the group has led numerousperformances with critically acclaimedinterpretations of Poulenc’s Gloria,Mozart’s Requiem, Lauridsen’s LuxAeterna and Madrigali, Fauré’sRequiem, Britten’s A Ceremony of Car-ols, Rutter’s Dancing Day, VaughanWilliams’ Mass in G minor, Casteln-uovo-Tedesco’s Romancero Gitano,Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Dvo�ák’sMass in D, Copland’s Old AmericanSongs, and Handel’s Messiah, the latterwritten up as “the best performance inmany years” in Overture, the Musi-cian’s Union official publication.

His ambitious and innovative planshave resulted in major program expan-sion taking the organization bicoastal,forging a reputation for excellence andadventurous programming. To date,his world premiere conducting perform-ances include works and arrangementsby Grammy-nominated Morten Laurid-sen and Emmy-winner Stephen Cohn,while current commissions include newmusic by Nico Muhly and Daniel Brew-baker. Heavily invested incollaboration, Mr. McEndarfer has pio-neered unique performancerelationships that have culminated inconcert appearances with the Los Ange-les Philharmonic, the Los AngelesOpera Company, the Los Angeles Mas-ter Chorale, the Joffrey Ballet, theKronos String Quartet, the StephenPetronio Dance Company of NewYork, Musica Angelica BaroqueOrchestra, and Josh Groban.

Equally at home in the studio as well ason the concert stage, Mr. McEndarferhas worked on several motion picture

soundtracks, most recently on Para-mount Pictures’ 2009 feature filmImagine That, starring Eddie Murphy,where McEndarfer selected, arranged,and conducted sections of the score, andalso appeared as the Music Teacher onscreen. Television credits include con-ducting performances in the musical acton Jay Leno’s former Tonight Show.

Passionately committed to music educa-tion, Mr. McEndarfer has vowed tomake the National Children’s Chorusan incomparable resource for youthmusic education in Los Angeles, NewYork City, and Washington, D.C., offer-ing rare, cutting-edge training, as wellas once-in-a-lifetime performance expe-riences to musically gifted children.Through his inspired vision, theNational Children’s Chorus has grownto offer its students university-level con-ducting instruction, Kodály technique,music theory, advanced ear training andcomposition study. With a strong con-tingent of supporters, McEndarfer hasled the National Children’s Chorus con-fidently into a class of its own,significantly enriching the lives of youthdaily on both coasts.

Since the age of six, Mr. McEndarferhas studied piano extensively, winning

competitions and musical honors withthe Music Teachers’ Association of Cal-ifornia. He is also a two-time graduateof UCLA, holding a Bachelor of Artsdegree in English literature and a Mas-ter of Music degree in conducting, thelatter with full scholarship under thetutelage of Donald Neuen. Studying pri-

vately, McEndarfer has been the pupilof Kenneth Kiesler and MariannePloger at the University of Michigan,Lucinda Carver at USC, Susan McClaryat UCLA, and Paul Salamunovich. Cur-rently, he resides in New York City, andtravels to Los Angeles and Washington,D.C. weekly.

Hannu Norjanen (b. 1964), previouslyworked with the Tapiola ChamberChoir as a guest conductor in therecordings of the complete choralworks of Jean Sibelius and ToivoKuula.

Norjanen graduated from the SibeliusAcademy in 1997 with diplomas inthe organ, choir conducting andorchestra conducting. He studied withJorma Panula, Eri Klas, Atso Almilaand Ilya Musin, and he further studiedchoral conducting with Eric Ericson inStockholm.

He has been the artistic director of theCantores Minores boys’ choir since2005 and the Helsinki PhilharmonicChorus since 2007. He also teaches atthe Sibelius Academy. He conducted theAmici Cantus male choir from 1990 to1997, the Finnish Philharmonic Chorusfrom 2003 to 2006, the LappeenrantaCity Orchestra from 1998 to 2001 andthe Vaasa City Orchestra from 1999 to2006. In 2012 the Diocese of Helsinkiawarded him the title of directormusices.

In addition to performances in Finland,Hannu Norjanen has appeared as aguest conductor in the Baltic States,Russia, the Czech Republic, Hungary,Spain, Great Britain, Turkey and USA.He has conducted productions of theoperas The Magic Flute by Mozart, LaBohème and Tosca by Puccini, LaTraviata and Falstaff by Verdi, L’elisird’amore by Donizetti, Tuntematon soti-las (The unknown soldier) by TaunoPylkkänen, Isänmaan tyttäret (Daugh-ters of the fatherland) by IlkkaKuusisto, and The Fairy Queen by Pur-cell.

HANNU NORJANEN, Conductor

HÅKON DANIEL NYSTEDT, Conductor

Grandson of the Norwegian composerand conductor Knut Nystedt, HåkonDaniel Nystedt (born 1980) grew upsurrounded by choral music. He studiedboth piano and violin from an earlyage, and became the regular conductorof his first choir at 17. In 2000, hebegan his studies at the NorwegianAcademy of Music, where his abilitiesas a conductor were soon recognized.While there, Håkon, whose main con-ducting instructors were Grete Pedersenand Ole Christian Ruud, entered a spe-cially designed program from his thirdyear, focusing on conducting and com-posing. At his exam concert from theNorwegian Academy of Music, Håkonconducted Antonin Dvorák’s Requiemmass with the Norwegian RadioOrchestra, resulting in a national TVbroadcast and the receipt of the orches-tra’s own prize for young and aspiringmusicians.

In 2009, Håkon commenced a specialcourse of study in Denmark for conduc-tors, where he received supervisionfrom Giancarlo Andretta, GiordanoBellincampi and Michael Schönwandt.Hakon’s participation in the programwas extended an extra year, an honorreserved for especially talented stu-dents.

Håkon has been appointed Chief Con-ductor and Artistic Director for boththe Oslo Chamber Choir and the Nor-wegian contemporary music choirGinnungagap, two of the most presti-

gious choirs in Norway. Even beforelearning about Grete Pedersen and OsloChamber Choir’s experiments withNorwegian folk music, Håkon had anidea about using this particular way ofsinging in a choral setting. He hasdescribed his relation with the choir asmore personal and deep than with anyother ensemble he has worked with.Håkon is deeply involved in decidingand developing the choir’s repertoire,arranging music for the choir, anddeveloping connections with musicalcollaborators.

As an orchestral conductor, Håkon hashad engagements with, among others:Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; BergenPhilharmonic Orchestra; Aarhus Sym-phony Orchestra; Trondheim SymphonyOrchestra; Tromsø Symphony Orches-tra; Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra;and South Jutland Symphony Orchestra.

David Skinner is a renowned scholarand director of the award-winningvocal consort Alamire(www.alamire.co.uk). He was co-founder of The Cardinall’s Musick in1989, and has also worked with manyother leading early music groups in theUK including The Tallis Scholars, TheSixteen, the Hilliard Ensemble and theKing’s Singers. An engaging presenter,David has worked extensively for BBCradio, appearing in and writing a vari-ety of shows on Radio 3 and 4. Heacted as music advisor for the Musicand Monarchy series on BBC 2 withhistorian David Starkey; he andAlamire appear in the first two episodesof the series. He has published widelyon music and musicians of early TudorEngland and has an excellent reputa-

tion as an editor of performance scores.David’s edition of the complete TallisPsalter was published by Novello in2012 and was well reviewed, receiving5 stars in Early Music Today. The fol-low up to this collaboration, TheGibbons Hymnal was published inMarch 2014. David is also workingwith the King’s Singers on a series ofearly music recordings, the latest beingPalestrina’s Biblical Passions.

David is Fellow, Praelector, and OsbornDirector of Music at Sidney Sussex Col-lege, University of Cambridge, where heteaches historical and practical topicsfrom the medieval and renaissance peri-ods. He directs the Choir of SidneySussex College, with whom he hastoured and made highly acclaimedrecordings. David is frequently invitedto lecture, lead workshops and coachchoirs throughout Europe and the USA,and is noted for his refreshing andentertaining approach. Most recently,he gave a lecture on Tallis’ life for Mar-tin Randall Travel in Canterbury inNovember 2013, and will be lecturingand giving masterclasses throughoutthe USA, UK, Italy and Spain in 2014-15. He is currently preparing ancollected edition of Tallis’s early Latinworks for Early English Church Music(Stainer & Bell) for publication in2016.

DAVID SKINNER, Conductor

Rick Wood has been leading handbellchoirs for thirty years, and for manyyears served as a church musician atFirst Church of Bethlehem, CT, along-side colleague Ruth Ann Leever. Rickhas conducted local and state handbellfestivals and has led handbell work-shops throughout New England.

In 2011, Rick and fellow ringers trans-formed the church handbell choirs into a

non-profit community music organiza-tion, Chime In! Music With a Mission,Inc. with a goal to “engage people in thejoy and sense of community that musicfosters through participation and per-formance.” Ringers from Bethlehemhave delighted many audiences through-out New England with lively concerts.

Mr. Wood says, of the Mass of theDivine Shepherd, “Julian’s work cap-

RICK WOOD, Conductor

tures the ethereal essence of handbells.The hall will be awash with the sound

of hundreds of bells, elevating the audi-ence into the heavens.”

Schola Cantorum, Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Hartford, Connecticut - Edward Bolkovac,Director

Holy Cross College Choirs, Worcester, Massachusetts - J. David Harris, DirectorNational Children’s Chorus, Los Angeles, California; New York, New York - Luke McEndarfer,Director

Nittany Valley Children’s Chorus, State College, Pennsylvania - Lou Ann Shafer, DirectorOslo Chamber Choir, Oslo, Norway - Hakon Nystedt, DirectorSaint Thomas More Chapel Choir, New Haven, Connecticut - Richard Gard, DirectorChoir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England - David Skinner, DirectorTapiola Chamber Choir, Helsinki, Finland - Hannu Norjanen, DirectorUniversity of Massachusetts Choir, Amherst, Massachusetts - Tony Thornton, DirectorVassar College Choir, Poughkeepsie, New York - Christine Howlett, DirectorDiocesan Children’s Choir of Philadelphia – John Romeri & Michael Zubert, DirectorsWestminster Williamson Voices – James Jordan, Director

VOCAL ENSEMBLES

Back Bay Ringers, Boston, MassachusettsBjallerklangen, North Chelmsford, MassachusettsBrimfield Bells, Brimfield, MassachusettsCalvary Baptist Church Handbell Choir, New York, New YorkCenter Congregational Church, Torrington, ConnecticutChime In! Music With a Mission, Bethlehem, ConnecticutChrist Church Handbell Choir, New York, New YorkECA Ringers, Newington, ConnecticutEmanuel Ringers, Emanuel Lutheran Church, Pleasantville, New YorkFaith UMC Handbell Choir, South Burlington, VermontFirst Church Handbell Choir, Wallingford, ConnecticutFirst Church, Nashua, New HampshireFoote School, New Haven, ConnecticutGloria Dei Bell Choir, Bristol, ConnecticutGranite State Ringers, Concord, New HampshireHeritage Bell Ringers, Exeter, New HampshireHewitt School Handbell Choir, New York, New YorkHills Bells, Wellesley Hills, MassachusettsHockanum Valley Ringers, Vernon, ConnecticutJubilate Ringers, Congregational Church, Brookfield, ConnecticutKatonah Celebration Ringers, Katonah, New YorkMerrimack Valley Ringers, Merrimack Valley, MassachusettsNorth Stonington Town Ringers, North Stonington, ConnecticutOld South Ringers, Boston, MassachusettsParish Ringers, Brunswick, MaineReykjanesbaer Music School Handbell Choir, Reykjanesbaer, IcelandSmith Memorial Handbell Choir, Hillsboro, New HampshireSt Joseph’s Church, Bristol, ConnecticutSt. Gabriel’s Ringers, East Berlin, ConnecticutThe Amadeus Ringers, Plainville, ConnecticutThe First Church of Christ, UCC, Woodbridge, ConnecticutThe Over the River Ringers, Skowhegan, MaineThe Riverside Ringers, Riverside Church, New York, New YorkThe Wheeler School, Providence, Rhode IslandTown Lynne Ringers, Falmouth, MaineTrinity Episcopal Church, Topsfield, MassachusettsUnion Baptist Church, Mystic, ConnecticutVictory Chimes Bell Choir, Avon, ConnecticutVillage Bell Ringers, Whitinsville, MassachusettsWilton Congregational Church English Handbell Choir, Wilton, Connecticut

HANDBELL CHOIRS

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL CHORUSADULTSMaria AbutThomas AingeKevin J.AndersenNils AugustAndresen

Elizabeth AuldCeceliaBarnesJames BartlettElin BaustadArjel BautistaRachel BeeksmaZachary BeeksmaMagnus BergEdward BolkovacJerry BorycaJulia Boscov-EllenDevynn BoudreauPatrick BradyFaith BrillRobertBrinkerhoffBjørn BuggeMatthew BurkeAlyssa CaplanLaurence CardenJustin CarembaBuckley CarleyBen ChappleMatthew ChastainIrina CherhoniakOliver ClarkeCamilla CockmanBenedict Collins RiceJacqueline CoteMatthew CramerOlivia CrawleyBirgit DahlSkinnerDavidWayne DeliaMary DiRobertsRosalind DobsonHeidi DoolanBrian DowlingBenjiman DurfeeMyyrä EevaBirgitteMydskeEgner

Renate EkerhovdSamuel EllwoodSondre EngesæthMikko EskelinenEzequiel MenéndezMercedesFeatherston

CharlesFeierabendChris FistonichFrode Jan FjørtoftPhilippe FranklinRose Fusco

Evelyn GardMatthew GarrityKatherine GriswoldKaroline GullbergCarine HaMikko HannukselaLaura HarrisonChristopher HärtelLinnéa SundfærHaug

Hedvig HaugerudMortenHaugliRachel HaworthJames HeemskerkSusanna HeinonenLiliana HernandezBrandonHetherington

Agnes HeyerdahlSavannah HolcombTone KnutsonHolmgren

Juha HovinenTorkjell HovlandChristine HowlettDan InglisAllison JackAbraham AdeodatusJanssens

Mari JärvinenEllen JewettJessica JonesKim JonggeolRebecca JordanInsun KangJulie KleiveTorfinn KleiveMegan KnoxTim KochAnna KooglerSigmund LappegårdLahn

BrookeLamellTimo LankinenAnthony LeathemMichel LedizetLars Eivind LervågMike LongofonoSarah LorimerPhil LosquardoRachel LoveDoreen MadamaChiara MannarinoHeljä-MaariManninen

Tuula MäntyjärviJaakko MäntyjärviAntola MarkettaTimo Markkula

Christian LyderMarstrander

Joe MartinGiverny McAndryLaura Ann MetskasElla MiddletonKatina MitchellMarianne MolineAdam MoriniWilliam MosherGregory MuccilliJohanne LundebrekkeMyskja

IngridMargitteNarvesen

Meredith NeumannMartti NissinenOda MaritaNetteland Norevik

Tuomas NorjanenJuha OllikainenEmily OmrodAdam OuelletAngela ParkBrian PemberRon PicardTaina PihkanenTimo PihkanenEeva PitkärantaLogan PittsNatalie PlazaMaria RamseySatu RantaDavid ReccaMalinda ReeseTheresa RiceLaura RichlingSarah RodeoCharlotte RowanNicholas RuggeriHannu RyynänenTaina SarkolaMark SayreRachel ScottWilliam SearleRobin SchottKaterina ShawMarie HvalgårdSmith

LaurenSmithJessica Stanislawczyk AngelaSteinauerElin StorjordMatti SuojalehtoÅdne SvalastogJonathan SwiftAlexander TeplanskyStein ThelleAtro Tossavainen

James TroupJessica ToupinEric TuanStephanie TubioloMagnus TvetenLiisa ValleniusKimmo ValleniusSusan Van CottAnneli VellendiJonathan VenvellAndrew WackLiam WackChristopher WardCamilla WehmeyerMargaret YapKimberly YeatsPia Ylitalo-MaunulaAldila Yunus

CHILDRENEleanor AdamsElizabeth AhnLucy AltusRachel AmayaAmanda AndresAthena ArtemisLiv AugeHillel AvitalReginaBanksAnastasia BasiniLaura BennettJuliana BernaudoAbigail BerneskySana BhakooSamuel BindschadlerLucy Blake-WilliamsHope BodenschatzKrissy BonnessElizabeth BoyleCharlie BrushMary KatherineBucko

Sophia BurgessChristian BurnettBarah BurnsGeoffrey BurtonEden CahillMolly CavettKatarina CeguerraHanna ChangCatherine ChapmanAshley ChungLena ClarkZachary-MichaelClarke

Simonne-anaisClarke

Miranda ClaxtonChase Cohen

Jade CookMariana CorichiJulia CowittCharlotte CroquetteAnnalisa D’AguilarElizabeth AnnD’Angelo

Dylan DavisMary DavisOlivia DesmondShaday DiazGwendolyn DonahueNoa DubinKhaly DurstHarli EdmondMalachi Edmunds-Warby

Sophia EkstrandErica EkstrandPetra EltonJennifer EpsteinMadalyn EquiCharlotte ErbJosephine ErbJuliana ErbEvan FergusonJulia FieldDanielaFinlayGabriela ForeSofia FrohnaBridgette FussmanPaige GarzaVictoria GauntnerMaggie GerstelElizabeth GilpatrickDanielle GlaceMalena GluckSami GoldDavina GoodmanCameryn GottliebLogan GuardinoDonovan GuigaMandi GureckiLizzie HamlettMiriam HansonKatherine HassettAnna HendersonMakaelah HewittTriniti HeywardAva HurwitzDavid IgnacioRiley IzenMadeline JalaliChristopher JamesJacksonJanisKayla JudgeLindsey KanterVanessa KanterCharlotte KinlinMatthew KoLibby Konjoyan

Eva Elizabeth KrausRakesh KwantuKatarina LagodzinskiManilyn LaloAraminta LeanRachou

Rémy Lean RachouSkylar Lehr-BryantCecilia LeskowiczMary LeskowiczRobbie Levis-Fitzgerald

VictoriaLevySarah LivshitsCassidyLombardoJulianna LonghenryNicole LucasGrace MacLacklinKatie MaguireAvery MalcombOlivia ManganNoah MayerGabriella MazzaraCeara McAteeMorgan McCourtBlaine McIndoeLeslie MeiselMichaela MeiselmanMax MeyersJulietteMillarMara MirkinKelly MorrisonNellie MullaneKatie MumfordEmily NadimyanIsabel Norris-Howard

Christopher O’BrienAlea OakmanChristine OcheltreeMargaret OstrowskiXavier PaganAnn Marie PaulSawyerPeaceSarai PerezAnna PhelanHayes PhilipEmma PoleyBeatrix PoleyMarinaPricePhoebePriceKate ReardonAnna RegerZoe RegerRose ReinerSophia RexingEric ReynoldsEmma RiglinLaila RodriquesSophia RogersNicholas Romain

Shannon RoseJack RosenbergMaggie RothrockMia RuhmanNicole RussackHanna RydmanZola Saadi-KleinEmma SacconeJoss SaltzmanAllegra SaltzmanCalista SamileyJulia SansingAoife SchenzSamantha ScottCarly SeyboldElisabeth ShaferKatie SharbaughChristopherSharbaugh

Alexis SharpMaria SheehanBetsy ShieldsEvelyn ShuAudrey ShuSofia SingerClaire SkelleyShayna SkepperVictor SoraceSophia SperoSarah StacyAntónia StearnsMichelle SteinbergEmerson StepanovichWillow SwidlerJoanna SwitalaGrace ThierAlexandra ThomasKathleen TimberlakePnina ToflerSarah ToutounchianGracie TurnerOlivia TwomeyWillow VergaraKatrinaVerlindeJoelle VuylstekeLylian WangEmily WatsonSamaraWhiteMaeleeWoodworthAudreyYangNaomi YanosSophie YaronAndriy YatsivPatrick YehRoan YehLilliana ZarAngela ZhangGabriel Ziaukas

HANDBELL CHOIRYemi AbioyeMadeline AubryRichard BaezÁstþór SindriBaldursson

Marcia BanksStephanie BerardZachary BerardSherry BerdanSamantha BeschtaLisa BettezLisa BieleszJanet BilodeauJón BöðvarssonChristina BowllanJoyce BridgemanSidney BriggsAmie BriggsSharon BrodyÞórarna SalómeBrynjólfsdóttir

MelissaBurrittElton BurrittAshley CambareriKathie ChabotFaye ChenEvelyn ChristianStephanie CouryJordan CowieLaurenCrabtreeChantal CrespoBarbara DaleyHeather DaleyPhil DaleyDaniel DenverRachael DixonFarrah DupouxStephan DupouxLeeda DurantChristine EarlyMaria EblingRose EllaKatrena EngstromSara EverettLinda Ewool-Hemans

Benjamin FeinsteinCaleb FeinsteinNicki FeldbaumAlexandra FerrisCharlotte FerrisSusan FournierDevon FrazierSeth GagnonRichard GlafkeCarol GoodwinPenny GravesAbigail GrayJeanette GrossDan Hack

ORCHESTRAViolin IJorge Avila,

ConcertmasterAlexander Sharpe,

AssociateConcertmaster

Maxim MostonTallie BrunfeltAlex FortesLouise OwenJim TsaoGabriel SchaffElizabeth NielsonAlexis Sykes

Violin IIAndrea Schultz,

PrincipalSusan DominguezSarah PrattRachel HandmanMaria ContiAmy Wright

Janey ChoiKiwon Nahm

ViolaJessica Troy, PrincipalAh Ling NeuKaya BrylaKallie CiechomskiEntela BarciLara Hicks

CelloArthur Fiacco,

PrincipalElliot BailenArthur CookChristine KimRobert BurkhartJordan Enzinger

BassDave Roman,

Principal

Roger WagnerJeff CarneySteve Sas

FluteSato Moughalian,

PrincipalKarla Moe

OboeDiane Lesser,

PrincipalTuck Lee

ClarinetDan Spitzer, PrincipalPascal Archer

BassoonBilly Hestand,

PrincipalDamian Primus

TrumpetAndrew KempChris Bubolz

HornDavid Peel, PrincipalEric Reed

TromboneTom Hutchinson,

PrincipalNick Swartz

PercussionBarry Centanni,

PrincipalTom Kozumplik

HarpKristi Shade, PrincipalKathryn Andrews

Hinrik HafsteinssonBrian HagerPhyllis HailstockMargaret HaneyBrittney HarrisDeborah HarrisSarah HeathJack HenryMolly HerlihyAudrey HimebaughJennifer HodgeKaren HodgeBarbara HuntKatie HurdSarah IlkerSusan JahnkeAdam JenkinsArlene JohnsBirta Dís JónsdóttirSandra RúnJónsdóttir

Joanna KaoMelissa KellyRobin KellyGail KellyAllison KhouriKate KhouriMargrét ValaKjartansdóttir

Ashley KlossCynthia KlossKelly KlossEmlee KohlerKay LaneyAgatha LassauzVictoria Lee

WandaLotusLiwen MaRagnheiður EirMagnúsdóttir

Sabrina MalecSally MarkiewiczDale MartinGlenn Mason,Donna MatsonElizabethMcLoughlin

Jennifer MeadeJessica MeadeNancy MendelsonRebecca MeyerSusannah MeyerNaila MeyersLynda MicklovichDaniel MooreCarol MorschhauserDavid MorschhauserJulia MunsonScott MunsonChris NelsonDoreen NelsonTom NelsonDiane NicholsAmanda NicholsLynda NickelsenOyeniran OyedejiKatie PagenkopfMary Jean PelhamJane PittariGlenna PomelowJessica PriceKaren Prince

Steve PrinceSue PrinceCharles ReubenChase RiendouJoan RifkinMorgan RobinsJamie RussoAdelaide SackeyfioStephanie ScheinSusan SchultzAbigail SchultzEmily SchultzDeborah SegedyClark ShannonDaniel ShawNancy SheeDebbie SheeEsther ShemethPaulineSholtysDonna ShowalterAdam ShulerBeverley SimpsonHelena FanneySölvadóttir

Chris SpauldingJennifer StackSusan StantonNancy SteenRachel SteinwayVirgina SteinwayZoe StollerKatie StowellMartha StowellKaren JanineSturlaugsson

Steve Sullivan

Toni Sullivan,Dawn SuttonSigurvin ÞórSveinsson

Jean SweezeyAlan TherriaultElizabeth TherriaultCecilia TuckerArnar Freyr ValssonKim VisbarasAmelia WalshNancy WalshJen WargerAndrea WellsJeff WhalenDavid WhiteJake WhiteLexie WhiteMark WhiteDena WhiteLeslie WickhamAmy WillardChristine WinrowEleanor WinrowBenjamin WoodSamantha WoodSandy WoodRick WoodJennifer WoodwardNing XieBarbara YatesDennis YatesSylvia Yoder

SAINT THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC CHAPEL & CENTER AT YALE UNIVERSITY—BOARD OF TRUSTEESEX OFFICIOThe Most Rev. Leonard P. Blair, S.T.D.,Archbishop of Hartford

Rev. Steven C. Boguslawski, O.P., Moderatorof the Curia and Vicar General

Rev. Robert L. Beloin, Ph.D., Chaplain

CORPORATEHarold W. Attridge, Ph.D., ‘97 M.A.H., Vice

PresidentJeffrey B. Brenzel ‘75Attilio V. Granata ‘74 ‘77 M.D.Barnet Philips IV ‘70Lisa Vigliotti Harkness ‘87, PresidentFrancis T. Vincent, Jr. ‘63 LL.B.

ALUMNIWilliam M. Edwards ‘02Amy Hungerford ‘07Kerry Robinson ‘94 M.A.R.Maura A. Ryan ‘93 Ph.D.Edward J. Smith ‘70, TreasurerJoseph J. Vale ‘63

HONORARYPeter C. Alegi ‘56 ‘59 LL.B.Geoffrey T. Boisi P ‘01 P ‘02Hon. Guido Calabresi ‘53 ‘58 LL.B.James M. CarolanHeather Cummings McCann ‘94, SecretaryWilliam O. Dillingham ‘73Philip M. Drake ‘48Roberto S. Goizueta ‘76M. Cathleen Kaveny ‘90 J.D. ‘91 Ph.D.Paul M. Kennedy ‘83 M.A.H.Kate L. Moore ‘73Lamin Sanneh, Ph.D., ‘89 M.A.H.

Consulate General of Finland in New YorkJukka Pietikäinen, Consul General

Sons of Norway, a Minneapolis-based Fraternal Life Insurance Company

ALLELUIA! INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS

PRODUCERSMichael J. Flora, Saint Thomas More Chapelat Yale

Evelyn Gard, Performing Arts Collaborative,LLC

Richard Gard, Saint Thomas More Chapel atYale

Julian Darius Revie, Saint Thomas MoreChapel at Yale

PRODUCTION MANAGERSNina EversLaurie PennacchiniToni Vollano

PRODUCTION ASSISTANTSRick CherhoniakPaul ChuJason DufourWills EversRenée GehlbachCristina GomezTheresa JeffriesPatrick Leahy

Matthew P. OddeyDaniel SharkisLauren SmithValerie Tarantino

MUSIC EDITORSRichard GardJulian Darius Revie

MUSIC ENGRAVERAlison Pryce

ORCHESTRA MANAGERBrian Mahany

GRAPHIC DESIGNGroup C, New HavenGillean Denny

GRANTS AND PUBLICATIONSAlison Hornstein

WEB DESIGNPerforming Arts Collaborative, LLC

ALLELUIA! PRODUCTION STAFF

SAINT THOMAS MORE CHAPEL &CENTER STAFF

Amanda AromaticiFrank Finkle Michael FloraDavid LittleAmy McClenningRobin J. McShane

Irene Orosz Carmen RosadoNate Short Samantha Sokoloski Dawn TaylorRebecca TrujilloSarah Woodford

BENEFACTORS OF THE CENTER FOR MUSIC AND LITURGY

FOUNDING PATRONSaint Thomas More Board of TrusteesJoseph J. Vale

CONCERT PATRONAvery-Tsui Foundation

BENEFACTORWilliam M. EdwardsPat and Troy MurrayRaskob Foundation for Catholic Activities,Inc.

Edward and Barbara Smith

SPONSORRoberto S. and Elizabeth T. GoizuetaAttilio Granata and familySons of Norway, a Minneapolis-basedFraternal Life Insurance Company

The Carpenter Foundation

SUPPORTERLynda and Peter AlegiRev. Robert BeloinAnne and Guido CalabresiCharles Cervantes Rebecca DavidsonSusan and Kenneth Fellows The Gard FamilyWilliam and Jeanie GrausteinFrancis GreaneyJohn MorrisseyMaria PrendergastKerry RobinsonPeter RobinsonBruce RussettJack Vees and Elizabeth Van CleveVirginia Wilkinson

SPECIAL THANKS

Andrea ArmfieldJudith ArmfieldGillean Denny and Philippe BernierCambridge in AmericaPaul ChuClaire and Martin DauntonDiocese of Bridgeport, ConnecticutDiocese of Trenton, New JerseyRoger DuncanPeter J. EymardAmie FanningGateway Community CollegeRenée GehlbachPhil HarrisOscar Hattink and Ying Tin LiHinshaw Music, Inc.Alison HornsteinRev. Lydia JohnsonErin Johnson-HillEric Dale KnappPhilip LasserJohn Robert LiepoldBrian MahanyEzequiel Menedez

Carolyn L. MillerMusikk-Huset ForlagDonald NeuenKerry RobinsonAlison PryceKatherine PustayKamilla RevieJohn RomeriSacred Beauty GroupJohn Scott Edward J. SmithChristopher TheofanidisValerie TarantinoSaint Thomas Church, New York Kent TritleJoseph ValeJack VeesRick WoodNatasha WongSally Wong-AveryThe Yale Club of New York CityThe management, staff, and crew of CarnegieHall

THE CENTER FOR MUSIC AND LITURGY Richard Gard, DirectorJulian Darius Revie, Composer in ResidenceRev. Robert L. Beloin, Chaplain

Over the past decade, many student choir members at Saint Thomas More Chapelhave gone on to establish music ministries modeled on our own in their new homeparishes. Inspired by their work and dedication, the Board of Trustees of SaintThomas More Chapel established the Center for Music and Liturgy. This majorinitiative, begun in 2014, lends formal structure to an ongoing mission: To createand nurture excellent music for the world-wide Church. This is accomplished byproviding:

NEW MUSICNew Catholic music by living composers, including our Composer in Residence;free editions of masterpieces and beloved hymns which have been curated andreturned to the public domain; the Cloud Hymnal: an interactive hymnal and songresource, accessible free on any mobile device.

OPEN ACCESSMusic and instructional software, available free to the world; performance andrehearsal opportunities for church musicians; Yale student interns trained andcommissioned to lead music in parishes; free music education software for all whowish to sing well; outreach and availability to those who might otherwise not haveaccess to such materials or opportunities.

All music from this performance is available free of charge to church music ministries.Visit www.music-and-liturgy.org for details.

THE CENTER FOR MUSIC AND LITURGY ADVISORY BOARD

Teresa Berger, Professor of Liturgical Studies, Yale Divinity SchoolDaniel Brondel, Associate Director of Music, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, New York CityMarguerite Brooks, Professor of Music, Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of Sacred MusicFrank Brownstead, Director of Music, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los AngelesSimon Carrington, Professor Emeritus, Yale University; conductor and choral clinicianMichel Guimont, Director of Music, Notre Dame Cathedral, Ottawa, CanadaPaul Jacobs, Organ Department Chairman, The Juilliard SchoolStephen Layton, Founder and Conductor, Polyphony; Artistic Director and Principal Conductor,City of London Sinfonia; Director, Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge

Ezequiel Menendez, Director of Music, Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Hartford, CTDonald Neuen, former Assistant Conductor and Director of Choral Activities, Atlanta SymphonyOrchestra, and Distinguished Professor of Conducting, UCLA

John Romeri, Director of the Office of Liturgical Music, Archdiocese of PhiladelphiaLynn Trapp, Director of Worship & Music, Saint Olaf Catholic Church, Minneapolis; Board ofDirectors, National Association of Pastoral Musicians

Kent Tritle, Director of Music, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine; Faculty, The Juilliard School;Director of Choral Activities, Manhattan School of Music; Organist, New York Philharmonic