Schola Cantorum, founded and directed by Nektarios S. Antoniou while reading for his post-graduate degree at the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University. Specializing in Greek Music and Chant, Schola Cantorum after three years of tutorials made its World Debut in 2003 in a live broadcast on NPR from the Yale Beinecke Library at the Concert of Credo Settings, in honor of Yale Emeritus Professor Jaroslav Pelikan. Exalted for their unison and magnificent sound by master choral clinician and Yale lauded professor Simon Carrington Schola Cantorum post their Hellenic College and Yale residencies performed extensively in the New England area and partnered in presenting and producing choral events among others with the esteemed Yale Schola Cantorum, Yale Collegium Musicum and Collegium Players. It has recorded several collectible albums from live performances at such places as Harvard's Fogg Art Museum and Harvard Payne Hall, MIT's Big Kresge Auditorium and Killian Hall, the Chapel of the Holy Cross in Brookline, the Yale Beinecke Manuscript Library and Dwight Chapel -where the Schola was filmed by Yale ISM laureate director and faculty Margot Fassler and will be featured on a forthcoming documentary on Eastern Chant, sponsored by the Lilly Foundation. This past year the Schola Toured on the East Coast and New York and recorded a collective CD with our partners at the Dunya foundation (sponsored by the 'ISTANBUL 2010' Cultural Capital of Europe), was awarded Residencies at the Historic New England Conservatory (Boston) and the Greek Cathedral of New York, presenting concerts, lectures and chanting at worship services for His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America.

Schola Cantorum has an ongoing collaboration with American awarded composer Robinson McClellan who was commissioned and produced a new setting for the Kontakion of Romanos the Melodist "On the Nativity of Christ" and composed music for the celebrated poem Sailing to Byzantium featured in his work "Gather Me" -again a commissioned by Schola Cantorum. The chorus is proud to announce that it has been an Official Selection by the European Cultural Capital Committee to participate in the historic concert "a Story of the City: Constantinople- Istanbul" celebrating the crowning of 'Istanbul 2010' as Cultural Capital of Europe. Next Fall the Schola will set a record by presenting two World Premieres in two consecutive concerts presented at YALE UNIVERSITY and HELLENIC COLLEGE, (Brookline, MA), the prestigious Sprague Hall and the Maliotis Cultural Center, respectively.

FUTURE CONCERTS FALL 2010

YALE UNIVERSITY SPRAGUE HALL
SEPT. 30th, 2010
WOLRD PREMIER of ROBINSON McCLELLAN's KONTAKION for the NATIVITY
(New Haven, USA)

HELLENIC COLLEGE, MALIOTIS CULTURAL CENTER
OCT. 2nd, 2010
INAUGURAL CONCERT for the ZAHARIS INSTITUTE of BYZANTINE STUDIES
(Brookline, USA)

BYZANTINE MUSEUM OF THESSALONIKI
DEC. 23rd, 2010
CHRISTMAS CONCERT for FRIENDS OF THE MUSEUM
(Thessaloniki, Greece)