Cantate Chamber Singers, directed by Gisèle Becker, is pleased to announce the winner of Cantate’s Tenth Biennial Young Composers’ Contest. New York-based composer Jacob Gelber submitted the winning composition entitled… read more →
Sunday April 19 5:00pm Cantate Welcomes Afro Blue! Cantate is thrilled to team with jazz a cappella virtuosos Afro Blue of Howard University (acclaimed finalists on NBC’s The Sing-Off) in a concert tribute… read more →
The music of composer Judah Adashi has been described as “beguiling” (Alex Ross, New Yorker) and “elegant” (Steve Smith, Boston Globe). Dr. Adashi has been honored with awards, grants and commissions from… read more →
The third concert of Cantate’s 30th Anniversary Season features the magnificent St. John Passion of Johann Sebastian Bach − not the familiar edition based on the first version of 1724 but… read more →
An evening of nature-inspired a cappella works by Samuel Barber, Johannes Brahms, Edward Elgar, Eric Whitacre, and more. Program highlights include a late Brahms quartet, a shimmering Frederick Delius vocalise,… read more →
An area concert premiere of Britten’s unique 1964 work inspired by Japanese Noh theater. Cantate will present a fully mounted production with new choreography by renowned performance artist Shizumi Shigeto Manale.… read more →
Cantate concludes its year-long focus on Benjamin Britten with a festive look at the composer’s era through the lens of his correspondence with musical contemporaries. On the program will be… read more →
Our second concert, A Britten Holiday, features the seasonal favorite A Ceremony of Carols and gems from the lesser-known Britten repertoire explored on Cantate’s new CD A Britten Holiday, recently recorded at… read more →
A rare presentation of Britten’s edition of the Mozart Requiem. Plus: Cantata Misericordium, the composer’s take on the Good Samaritan tale, and Serenade for Tenor, Horns, and Strings. Friday, Nov 22,… read more →