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Concerts

July 24 - 27

(Thursday thru Sunday)

The annual Summer Workshop for singers

concluding with an open rehearsal - July 27 at 3pm

For Workshop details click here

The 2025-2026 Season:

Sunday, October 12 at 4pm - Happy 500th, Giovanni Pierluigi: A Palestrina Celebration

A sampling of works by Palestrina in honor of his 500th birthday, including pieces like the Missa Papae Marcelli, Veni Creator Spiritus, Super flumina Babylonis, Surge propera amica, and Vestiva i collli.

Sunday, December 21 at 4pm - Pastores a Belén

Saturday, December 27 at Erwin First United Methodist Church

A semi dramatic presentation of the novella by Lope de Vega with accompanying music by Gaspar Fernandéz and other Latin American composers. Selections from the novel, in English translation, will be interspersed with 17th century Mexican Christmas villancicos (Spanish madrigals) setting poetic texts from Pastores de Belén, sung in Spanish.

Schola Cantorum is arranging for the first-time translation into English of the Lope de Vega excerpts. Liamna Pestana, a skilled guitarist, lutenist, soprano, and scholar of Hispanic early music, formerly a Syracuse resident and Schola Cantorum singer and instrumentalist, will be returning to Syracuse to participate as a guest artist.

Sunday, April 19 at 4pm - A Truly Complete Messiah

Loosely following the Baroque tradition of presenting oratorios during Lent when opera houses were closed, Schola presents in chamber-format, a Spring performance of the complete Handel’s Messiah - uncut – both the Christmas and the Easter portions.

Sunday, June 7 at 4pm - Happy 50th, Schola!

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Schola Cantorum of Syracuse, we present important works in Schola’s 50-year history featuring music of Du Fay, Ockeghem, Josquin, Lasso, Schütz, Buxtehude, Bach.

Past Concerts (2024-2025 season):

September 29, 2024: Opus 6 (concerti grossi of Corelli and Handel)
October 6: 16th-Century Hits and their more modern progeny

December 15 and 22: Hugo Distler, Die Weihnachtsgeschichte

(The Christmas Story) plus Renaissance carol-motets

March 30 & April 6: Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem
June 1, 2025, in DeWitt and June 14, 2025 in Boston: The Power of Love

Schola Cantorum

of Syracuse

Sunday, October 12 at 4pm - Happy 500th, Giovanni Pierluigi: A Palestrina Celebration

Sunday, December 21 at 4pm - Pastores a Belén

Saturday, December 27 at Erwin First United Methodist Church

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Sunday, June 7 at 4pm - Happy 50th, Schola! ​ Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Schola Cantorum of Syracuse, we present important works in Schola’s 50-year history featuring music of Du Fay, Ockeghem, Josquin, Lasso, Schütz, Buxtehude, Bach.​

Sunday, June 7 at 4pm - Happy 50th, Schola!

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Schola Cantorum of Syracuse, we present important works in Schola’s 50-year history featuring music of Du Fay, Ockeghem, Josquin, Lasso, Schütz, Buxtehude, Bach.