Penderecki To Conduct Penderecki With Yale Camerata, Glee Club And Philharmonia

NEW HAVEN — Krzysztof Penderecki, one of today’s best known and most prolific composers, will conduct the combined Yale forces of the Camerata, directed by Marguerite Brooks; the Glee Club, directed by Jeffrey Douma; and the Philharmonia, directed by Shinik Hahm; with the Elm City Girls Choir, directed by Rebecca Rosenbaum, in a performance of his monumental Credo.

The culmination of the conductor’s weeklong residency at Yale, the concert will take place at 8 pm on Friday, April 22, at Woolsey Hall in New Haven (corner Grove and College Streets).

Jennifer Black, Sara Jakubiak, Rebecca Ringle, Luis Yo and Liam Moran are the soloists.

The composer will give a pre-concert talk at 7 pm in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, at 121 Wall Street. Both the talk and concert are free and open to the public; no tickets are required.

Credo is a massive liturgical work for chorus and orchestra. Characteristic of the later choral works of Penderecki, it shows an increasingly softer, 19th Century harmonic bias, incorporates Polish hymns (in the “Crucifixus”), and the influence of Bach is very much in evidence.

Mr Penderecki, who was born in Poland in 1933, has written nearly forty orchestral works including five symphonies, various small-scale orchestral compositions, and several solo concertos, as well as chamber music, numerous vocal works, five operas, and a film score. He enjoys an international reputation as a composer and as a conductor, both of his own works and those of other composers.

For more information, call 203-432-5062 or 203-432-4136.