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Projects from the Past
Hallelujah: Early Music in a Contemporary Format
The Barn Club, Kibbutz Ma’agan Michael (October 2025)
We loved seeing you at the special concert in Ma’agan Michael!
We presented hymns and madrigals from Europe in a special collection celebrating hope for peace and love, the very peace that has guided humanity from the dawn of its existence and was rekindled in our hearts in these soul-stirring days.
Venice — from Monteverdi to Vivaldi (October 2025)
Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant Church, Abu Ghosh
For Sukkot, we participated in the Abu Ghosh Festival!
Together with the marvelous Sarig Sela, Aviad Stier, Tal Arbel, and Naomi Burla Levi, we presented a gorgeous program of vocal and instrumental music from the renaissance and the Italian baroque.
Season Finale: Hymns of the Ages
Hamiffal Center for Art and Culture, Jerusalem | Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art, Jerusalem
After a year of magnificent projects which opened us to worlds of art and history through Gregorian chants and Jewish liturgical poetry, we present the hymns of Hildegard von Bingen (a twelfth-century nun), the music of the Notre Dame School, English madrigals, Bach, and even music from the twentieth century.
The music, spanning over a thousand years, is woven together by the common threads of prayer for peace, love, and mercy.
Voices from Notre Dame, in cooperation with Nadav Ovadia (May 2025)
The Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem | Christ Church, Nazareth | Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art, Jerusalem
We hosted Nadav Ovadia for a one of a kind concert of vocal music from the middle ages.
We descended upon Paris of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with repertoire rarely heard in Israel. The arrangements come from the early musical notation found in the original manuscripts and their texts, which bear timeless messages.
The pure music is based on the unadulterated human voice accompanied by the strings of the dulcimer.
From Monteverdi to Bach (March 2025)
Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant Church, Abu Ghosh
Baroccada Baroque Orchestra was happy to invite the audience of music lovers to an uplifting concert in the newly renovated church with the outstanding acoustics in Abu Ghosh!
In this concert we performed English madrigals full of livelyhood and refined humor, we experienced love and passion in the Italian music of Monteverdi, and we dived into the abysses of depth and beauty in the music of Bach.
LUX-אור (January 2025)
Litvak Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv | Hamiffal Center for Art and Culture, Jerusalem
The Jerusalem Vocal Consort invites you to an a cappella performance of hymns, old and new, that seek to bring light and hope. The concert melds ancient Gregorian chants with interpretations from the Renaissance and the 20th century, weaving the past with the present, what is far with what is near. This musical journey through the centuries creates a sense of timelessness and placelessness, allowing the audience to fully immerse themselves in the universal experience of human vocal music. The concert is built as one composition, a tapestry of hymns about light, life, and peace.
The performance was made possible by the generous supported of the Chaya Tirosh Memorial Foundation.
Da pacem domine, in diebus nostris (Grant peace, O Lord, in our days)
Host Mezzo Ensemble – Polyphony (June 2024)
Studio Annette, Tel Aviv | The Center for Middle Eastern Classical Music, Jerusalem
The concert was dedicated to the connection between words and polyphonic music that evokes a multitude of intense emotions in the listener, from despair to love, from sorrow to the exaltation of the soul, in a program of madrigals and motets, from Monteverdi to Bach. A multi-participant festive concert to celebrate the Mezzo Ensemble’s end-of-season, led by the contra tenor singer Yaniv d’Or and the Naya Ensemble, the Soprano singer Ye’ela Avital, the Jerusalem Vocal Consort and a dancers ensemble choreographed by Michal Gruber-Friedlander.
Under Her Wings (May 2024)
Studio Annette, Tel Aviv | Beit Hachesed Church, Haifa | The Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem
A collaboration between two of the most prominent performing groups in the young Baroque scene in Israel. The Jerusalem Vocal Consort and the Nari Baroque Ensemble, which specializes in historical instrumental music and a dramatic-narrative approach to chamber music. Together we presented the story of the Book of Esther, as dramatized and composed by Giacomo Carissimi in mid-17th century Rome. As in the original performance of the oratorio in Rome, the oratorio was performed with motets and psalm verses by other composers: Heinrich Schütz, Henry Du-Mont and Michel Richard de Leland.
Tbilisi International Choral Music Festival (April 2024)
Tbilisi, Georgia
The Consort represented Israel at this Georgian Festival, alongside other ensembles from around the world, and held two concerts for the festival audience in Abesadze street Catholic Church and in Tbilisi State Conservatoire.
Hallel – The French Institute (April 2024)
Institut Français de Jérusalem Romain Gary
A special program in collaboration with the Institut Français de Jérusalem Romain Gary. An acapella concert presenting expressions of love to God and man in compositions of French Renaissance and Baroque composers such as Lassus, Willaert and Arcadelt.
Hear My Prayer (January – July 2024)
Studio Annette, Tel Aviv | Beit Hagefen, Haifa | The Hebrew Catholic Church, Jerusalem | Sha’on Horef Festival, Jerusalem | Menofim Festival, Jerusalem
A concert full of prayer and praise in different languages from the Judeo-Christian liturgy. During times of war and loss, we believe that music, especially the pure vocal music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, can help us reconnect with ourselves, and find comfort and peace. We intend the hymns to serve their original function as a means to open our hearts and establish a dialogue with God, in faith and in hope for life and peace, as in have from antiquity.
The Madrigal’s Enchantment (October 2023)
Rabin Center, Abu Ghosh Festival, Tel Aviv | Church of Saint John the Baptist, Ein Karem | Mevakshei Derech Community, Jerusalem
Join us for an enchanting musical journey back in time to the roots of sensual Italian singing, via Belgium and France, with legendary composers such as Guillaume Dufay, Josquin des Prez and Orlando di Lasso. These marvelous musicians, known for their groundbreaking contributions to the genre, will be celebrated in our intimate chamber concert. This exclusive concert offers a rare opportunity to hear their compositions. Discover the genius of Guillaume Dufay, the expressive power of Josquin des Prez, and the master of polyphony, Orlando di Lasso.
Renaissance Friday (June 2023)
DOJO Studio, Jerusalem
A concert with a summer vibe to mark the Consort’s first year of activity! We will sing beautiful music with a taste of the past written by Byrd, Lassus, Morley and others, and mix music with wine, friends and languages.
Whom My Soul Loveth (March 2023)
Ya’ar Ramot Community , Jerusalem | Studio Annette, Tel Aviv | Merkaz Hadarim, Haifa
An acapella program dedicated to secular and heavenly love songs from the 16th and 17th centuries. We will perform pearls from the Italian tradition of Monteverdi, and pass through Morelli and Dowland’s madrigals to Melchior Frank’s unique composition of the text of the “Song of Songs”.
Listen to our rendition of “Hohelied Motetten” by Melchior Frank, recorded at the Jerusalem Music Center (Mishkenot Sha’ananim).
Master classes in 2022
In its first year of activity, the ensemble participated in master classes with Tristan Meister, conductor of the Limburg Vocapella Ensemble (Belgium), with soprano Yeela Avital (Israel), and with composer Dr. Eilam Rotem, founder of the ensemble Profeti della Quinta (Switzerland, Israel).
Psalms (October 2022)
Beit Ot Hamutzar, Jerusalem | Rabin Center, Abu Ghosh Vocal Music Festival, Tel Aviv
Give a song and sing a drum! Debut concert for the Jerusalem Vocal Consort! We invite you to a concert full of Baroque and Renaissance psalms, in an assortment of genres and languages. We will perform vocal compositions by Purcell, Palestrina, Rossi, Shane, Allegri and others.