Yale Camerata Fall Concert: Shout for Joy
Yale Camerata is thrilled to begin its 2024–2025 season with a fall concert entitled “Shout for Joy.” The concert will feature the music of Hailstork, Mozart, Hogan, and Harris, as well as exciting music by featured special guest artists. This first concert of the season will feature a collaboration with the engaging professional ensemble The Jason Max Ferdinand Singers.
Repertoire includes:
- Adolphus Hailstork: Shout for Joy
- Wolfgang A. Mozart: Venite Populi, KV 260
- Moses Hogan: This Little Light of Mine
- Christopher Harris: Bring Me All of Your Dreams (featuring text by Langston Hughes)
Free and open to the public.
Yale Camerata is a seventy-voice vocal ensemble whose members are Yale graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and experienced singers from the New Haven community. Conducted by Dr. Felicia Barber, the ensemble performs a widely varied spectrum of sacred choral literature, with a special commitment to choral music of our time. The Camerata was founded by Marguerite L. Brooks in 1985.
The Jason Max Ferdinand Singers: An Ensemble of Exceptional Talents are a professional choral ensemble of talented musicians and educators from across the US. This engaging ensemble, often referred to as The J. Max Singers, has traveled the world with recent performances in London, Japan, as well as regional and national performances at the American Choral Directors Association and National Collegiate Choral Organization conferences. They bring to each audience their mission of Innovation, Excellence, and Execution. The ensemble was the vision of its founding artistic director, Dr. Jason Max Ferdinand. Ferdinand is a renowned educator, conductor, composer, and speaker. In the past he has made a name for himself as the conductor of the Aeolian Singers of Oakwood University; however, he currently serves as the Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Choral Music at the University of Maryland. Ferdinand is a published author and composer with GIA Publications, featuring the book, Teaching with Heart: Tools for Addressing Societal Challenges Through Music, and The Jason Max Ferdinand Choral Series (Walton Music). Dr. Ferdinand maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor and lecturer domestically and internationally at schools, universities, churches, and choral festivals and conferences.