NASHVILLE, Tennessee _ The concert features rarely heard Gregorian chants, music by French composer Josquin des Prez, Italian Renaissance sacred music master Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, English Renaissance choral composer Thomas Tallis, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, vocal music composer Benjamin Britten and Taizé composer Jacques Berthier. Choristers and featured instrumentalists - San Francisco, CA, cellist Russell F. Bartoli, and Woodland Hills, CA flutist/clarinetist Brian Clements will be directed by Conductor Vicente Bastidas and Fr. Ted Ley, S.M., DMA, founder 47 years ago of the Schola Cantorum of the Pacific.
Evening Concert, 7:30 Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023, at historic St. Mary of the Seven Sorrows, in Nashville, Tennessee. Top row left: tenor Abraham Tadeo; altos Gennesis Tadeo, Alisa Benitez; bass Augustinian Bro. David Marshall, OSA. First row left: sopranos Marilu Reyes, Christina van Ingen, Cynthia Bih, Louinn Lota. Foreground: Conductor and tenor Vicente Bastidas-Elizondo.
Musicians: Cellist Russell Bartoli, flutist/clarinetist Brian Clements, and at the keyboard, Fr. Ted Ley, SM, DMA. Choir from bottom row: Conductor and tenor Vicente Bastidas-Elizondo. First row (left to right): tenor Abraham Tadeo, sopranos Marilu Reyes, Christina van Ingen, Cynthia Bih, Louinn Lota. Top row: altos Gennesis Tadeo, Alisa Benitez, Bro. David Marshall, OSA, singing bass.
