Ensembles

Christ Church Choir, New Haven -- The Christ Church Choir sings the Solemn Mass on Sundays and Feast Days, and sings the Choral Office at Evensong and Compline. The fully-professional choir is composed of students from Yale University and professionals from the New Haven community. The worship at Christ Church, deeply sacramental, incarnational, and devotional, makes full use of the rich resources of the Book of Common Prayer and, true to the ideals of the Oxford Movement, music plays a very important part in the liturgy. The choir sings Psalms (to both plainsong and Anglican Chant), settings of the Mass Ordinary, the Gregorian Minor Propers, canticles, and anthems and motets drawn from all periods of music history while placing an emphasis on the music from our own rich Anglican heritage.

Uncloistered -- Adventurous vocal quintet founded by members Naomi Morse, Mary E. Larew, Sam Sytsma, Thatcher Lyman, and Chris Macklin at Oberlin College in 2003. Studied at the University of York, UK with coaches John Potter and Anna Maria Friman. Recent projects include a recording of Meditations by Siobhan Lamb, with jazz trumpeter Gerard Presencer, and a tour of the US in Spring 2009. Tours of the US are planned for March and June 2011.

Viriditas -- Ensemble of flexible forces dedicated to performing music-theatre from the fringes of the repertoire, medieval to modern. Directed by Mary E. Larew. Recent projects include the world premiere of Antigone by Jon Hughes, Ordo Virtutum by 12th-century abbess Hildegard von Bingen, and a touring production of Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale.

YORVOX -- Directed by John Potter, this ensemble of York student singers has performed and recorded with Red Byrd, as well as the Last Century Ensemble.

University of York Symphony Orchestra -- Mary led YUSU in performances of Mahler's Ninth Symphony in 2006 and of Strauss's Four Last Songs (with soloist Bibi Heal) and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony in 2007. In March 2008, she led the orchestra as they performed Mahler's Fifth Symphony and Tchaikovsky's Roccoco Variations (with soloist Tim Lowe).

Causa Pulchritudinis -- 'For the Sake of Beauty' -- premiering new works, re-discovering the florid madrigals of the fourteenth century, this ensemble of York graduates formed in spring 2007 with an inaugural concert on the Sconfini Festival in Modena, Italy. Watch this space for future projects.

Eboracum String Quartet -- Formed in 2007 by four of the University fo York's most accomplished undergraduate and postgraduate string players. In its first year Eboracum performed a wide variety of repertoire in diverse venues, from a world premiere of a Chinese music drama in York Minster, to a Schubert quartet in a cemetery chapel, with stops along the way to provide workshops in primary schools and to entertain at Christmas parties, weddings and the 2008 University of York graduation ceremonies.