Founded in 1326, Clare College is one of the oldest colleges at the University of Cambridge and is internationally renowned for its chapel choir. In addition to its primary function of leading services three times a week in the college chapel, the choir keeps an active schedule recording, broadcasting, and performing at home and abroad.
In Rome, the 30-strong mixed-voice choir and its director Graham Ross will celebrate in grand style the 500th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina with a concert in the papal basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, where the composer (a leading exponent of the Roman Renaissance polyphonic school and the greatest Italian musician of the 16th century) was a chorister as a child and later became chapel master.
The program of the event, which is sponsored by Jubilee 2025, includes movements from two fine Lenten Mass settings, a magnificent five-part Magnificat secundi toni, and a triple-choir motet Ad te levavi oculos meos. Palestrina’s music is placed alongside settings of the same texts by his English contemporaries William Byrd (Emendemus in melius) and Robert White (Ad te levavi oculos meos).
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