Cantabile Chamber Chorale

Join us for the 2024 – 2025 Season

Cantabile Chamber Chorale concerts at Christ United Methodist Church in Piscataway, NJ.

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Cantabile’s 2024 season looks at outer-space which has always been a source of inspiration for artists across genres. Enjoy composers who have used the theme of space to express their feelings about the universe and our place in the cosmos to help us explore our own thoughts and emotions as we look up at the stars.

Dazzle of Space

Saturday, December 7, 2024 at 7:30 pm

Dazzle of Space

Experience composers’ wonderment and amazement with the dazzling beauty of stars, nebulae, and galaxies in our premiere of “After the Dazzle of Day” by Bruce Lazarus for chorus and harp.  With the premiere of Marco Adrian-Ramos’s “This is a Present” and gems by Esenvalds, Whitacre, Diemer, and Whitehead.

 

Christ United Methodist Church Saturday
December 7, 2024 at 7:30 pm
485 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ

CANTABILE CHAMBER CHORALE

Rebecca Scott, Artistic Director and Conductor

Rebecca Scott, Artistic Director and Conductor

Lynne Stallworth, piano; Brittany Quinones-Fields, flute; Anita Gould, flute

Diane Michaels, harp; Alex Nelson, cello

 

PROGRAM

In One of the Stars ✦ music by Emma Lou Diemer

Stars ✦ music by Eriks Esenvalds

After the Dazzle of Day (2024 commission by Cantabile) ✦ music by Bruce Lazarus

This is a Present (2024 commission by Cantabile)✦ music by Marco Adrian Ramos

Lullaby for Stars ✦ William Whitehead

Goodnight Moon ✦ music by Eric Whitacre

Oh, Watch the Stars ✦ African American spiritual, arr. by Mack Wilberg

We Wish You the Merriest ✦ music by Les Brown, arr. by Mack Huff

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

December 13, 2024, 7:30 pm

Nicholas Music Center, 85 George St, New Brunswick, NJ
Cantabile joins with New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra, Philomusica Concert Choir, and Masterwork Choir for a musical celebration that includes new and old holiday favorites.

 

Echoes of Spain

April 25, 2025, 7:30 pm

Christ Church Methodist Church
485 Hoes lane
Piscataway, NJ

Our concert of Spanish and Hispanic classical music celebrates the vibrant heritage of Middlesex County with song and dance as it weaves through hearts and bridges cultures.

 

Harmony of the Universe

Performed Saturday, April 27, 2024

supernova remnant Cassiopeia A from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScl; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScl/Milisavljevic et al., NASA/JPL/CalTech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt and K. Arcand

 

CANTABILE CHAMBER CHORALE

Rebecca Scott, Artistic Director and Conductor
Guest Performing Artists: Philomusica Concert Choir, Emma Daniels, Artistic Director
Lynne Stallworth, piano; Brittany Quinones-Fields,  flute
Diane Michaels, harp; Alex Nelson, cello

Program

In Paradisum from Requiem, Opus 48✦ music by Gabriel Faure

High Flight  ✦ music by Laura Farnell

StarSongs (2024 commission by Cantabile) ✦ music by Bruce Lazarus

Locus Iste A Deo Factus Est ✦ music by Anton Bruckner

Samaia ✦ Georgian folk song

The Silver Swan ✦ music by Orlando Gibbons

The Bee ✦ by Frank Bridge

I Am Flying ✦ music by Nan-Chang Chien

I’ll Fly Away ✦ arr: Craig Courtney

The Heavens Are Telling ✦ music by Franz Joseph Haydn

View the complete program notes, artists’ bios, texts and more

Christ United Methodist Church
485 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ  08854

Cantabile members rehearsing for in-person concert

We Are Cantabile

Cantabile Chamber Chorale [England, 1989]

Cantabile Chamber Chorale [England, 1989]


Thirty years ago, a group of 18 singers performed its first concert as the Cantabile Chamber Chorale under the direction of Rebecca Scott “to provide the challenge of singing the repertoire for small ensemble with all its difficulties, nuances and special performing problems, while providing the love and good fellowship of joining with close friends in an artistic endeavor.”  Now three decades later, we are proud to celebrate Cantabile’s 30th anniversary, a significant milestone in our history and a testament to our passion for performing new music.