February 21, 2020 - Friday at 7:30 pm
Schola Antiqua of Chicago 
Michael Alan Anderson, Artistic Director
Slavic Routes: Music from Renaissance Prague
Works by: de Monte, Byrd, Harant, Gallus, Luython, Sales

Schola Antiqua of Chicago, a professional early music vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance of music before 1600. Founded in 2000, the ensemble is the 2012 winner of the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society, which recognizes outstanding contributions to historical performing practices.
Currently artist-in-residence at the Lumen Christi Institute and formerly an artist in residence at the University of Chicago.
Schola Antiqua has released four commercial CDs on the Discantus and Naxos of America labels.
The group's music has aired on the national broadcasts of With Heart and Voice, Harmonia, and Millennium of Music.
This program is a musical tour of Renaissance Prague, featuring hymns, motets, plainchant, & madrigals from the Imperial Court & the Cathedral. The pieces give a sense of the immense stylistic range of the music that filled Prague's churches, houses, streets, and squares over 400 hundred years ago.
https://www.schola-antiqua.or

April 21, 2020 - Tuesday at 7:30 pm
Choir of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris France
Henri Chalet, Director;  Yves Castagnet, Organist
Works by: Alain, Fauré, Duruflé, Vierne, Franck, Poulenc, Castanet

With the support of the Cleveland Foundation: The Charles H Teare & Clfford K Kearns Fund

Founded in 1991 by the City of Paris and the Parisian Diocesan Association, Musique Sacrée at Notre Dame de Paris has the task of teaching music, training singers, organizing musical accompaniment of liturgy, proposing concerts and recitals, and carrying out research into the rich musical inheritance of Notre Dame Cathedral.  It also plays an important role in the creation of new musical works and in their circulation.  The first and central element is the Choir School of Notre Dame (Maîtrise), composed of the Children’s Choir, the Young Ensemble, the Adult Choir and the Gregorian Ensemble.
http://www.concertorganists.com/artists/notre-dame-cathedral-paris-france/

May 8, 2020 - Friday at 7:30 pm
Quire Cleveland
Dr Jay White, Director
Resonant Glory: Music for Grand Spaces

With the vision of building global harmony through performance & education, Quire Cleveland is dedicated to exploring, preserving, and breathing new life into nine centuries of choral music. Thier vibrant performance of choral music both ancient and new reveals the timeless humanity of this art form. Throughout the Renaissance, composers had the honor of writing music for specific choirs in unique churches and cathedrals around Europe. Northeast Ohio, having been settled by descendants familiar with such grand architecture, offers glorious spaces that lend themselves well to those ancient sounds. As the earth begins its return to life after the long winter, Quire Cleveland offers musical splendor to AWAKEN the soul, highlighting double choir treasures and works in which grand spaces truly live.
https://www.quirecleveland.org