Grant funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners through a grant award from the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund.
Cantabile Chamber Chorale
2023 – 2024 Season
Cantabile Chamber Chorale concerts at Christ United Methodist Church in Piscataway, NJ.
Harmony of the Universe
Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 7:30 pm
CANTABILE CHAMBER CHORALE
Rebecca Scott, Artistic Director and Conductor
Guest Performing Artists: Philomusica Concert Choir, Emma Daniels, Artistic Director
Lynne Stallworth, piano; Brittany Quinones-Fields, flute
Diane Michaels, harp; Alex Nelson, cello
Program
In Paradisum from Requiem, Opus 48✦ music by Gabriel Faure
High Flight ✦ music by Laura Farnell
StarSongs (2024 commission by Cantabile) ✦ music by Bruce Lazarus
Locus Iste A Deo Factus Est ✦ music by Anton Bruckner
Samaia ✦ Georgian folk song
The Silver Swan ✦ music by Orlando Gibbons
The Bee ✦ by Frank Bridge
I Am Flying ✦ music by Nan-Chang Chien
I’ll Fly Away ✦ arr: Craig Courtney
The Heavens Are Telling ✦ music by Franz Joseph Haydn
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Christ United Methodist Church
485 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Tickets are sold in advance only through our website.
Part 2: It’s All About the Birds and the Bees
Saturday, December 2, 2023, at 7:30 pm
The Program
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- Flight of the Bumble Bee (1900), music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Mariposa (2013), music by Eric Ewazen
- The Bee (1913), music by Frank Bridge
- Whence come this rush of wings? Traditional French carol from Bas-Query region
- Here on these branches (2013), music by Sarah Quartel
- The Silver Swan (1992), music by Orlando Gibbons
- The Song of the Birds (El Cant dels Ocells), traditional Catalan folksong
- A Place in the Choir, music by Bill Stainest, arr: Erica Phare-Bergh
- House Wren, by Adam Young
- Hope is a thing with feathers, music by Gwyneth Walker
- I Shall Not See the Shadows, Christopher Tin
- O Magnum Mysterium, music by Morton Lauridsen
- Across the Vast Eternal Sky, music by Ola Gjeilo
Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Christ United Methodist Church
485 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Tickets are sold in advance only through our website.
Home for the Holidays
Sunday, December, 17, 2023 at 3 PM
Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St., New Brunswick, NJ
Cantabile joins with New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra, Philomusica, and Highland Park Community Chorus for a musical celebration that includes new and old holiday favorites. And, in a grand finale, the choirs and orchestra join forces in Handel’s powerful “Hallelujah Chorus.”
PART 1: A Sustainable Earth
Performed on Saturday, April 29, 2023 at 7:30 PM at 7:30 PM.
Read program notes from the concert here.
From 1 February 2023, Cantabile is running “100 Days of Green Cantabile” where our singers, artist performers, and board trustees will each take on a task for 100 days linked to sustainability.
See what Cantabile members and others are doing for “100 Days of Green Cantabile”.
Cantabile members rehearsing for in-person concert
We Are Cantabile
Thirty years ago, a group of 18 singers performed its first concert as the Cantabile Chamber Chorale under the direction of Rebecca Scott “to provide the challenge of singing the repertoire for small ensemble with all its difficulties, nuances and special performing problems, while providing the love and good fellowship of joining with close friends in an artistic endeavor.” Now three decades later, we are proud to celebrate Cantabile’s 30th anniversary, a significant milestone in our history and a testament to our passion for performing new music.