“… plaintive beauty and radiant sound …”
-- Anthony Tommasini, Boston Globe

For over 20 years Schola Cantorum, a 12-voice vocal ensemble, has been recognized for lively and evocative performances of Renaissance sacred music. Schola sings music from Machaut and Ciconia (14th-century) through the great 16th-century masters: Byrd, Victoria, Lasso and Palestrina. We have often explored works from Tudor England -- Taverner, Tallis, Faryfax -- and the Eton Choirbook repertoire. With Joel Cohen, we have performed at Tanglewood and served as the chorus for the Boston Camerata, winning several prizes for recordings ranging from Music from New Spain, to French Baroque works of Gilles and Charpentier, and American shape-note and Shaker Music.

Schola Cantorum has also performed at the annual convention of the American Renaissance Society and the Boston Early Music Festival. Founder and Director Frederick Jodry has been acclaimed as an organist, a singer, and (since 1991) as the conductor of the Brown University Chorus.

“Informed through and through by the music’s very human emotions.
Silence itself - a deep inner silence, the shimmer of eternity – was being articulated."
-- Richard Buell, Boston Globe