Romanos the Melodist Byzantine Choir is a vocal ensemble of students and alumni of Hellenic College Holy Cross. LeClair serves as director of choirs at the Church of St Andrew in Marblehead and of Vermilion, a quartet singing a unique Unitarian Vespers service she created for the First Unitarian Society in Newton. She is former director of Schola Nocturna, a compline choir at the Episcopal Parish of the Messiah in Newton, of Coro Stella Maris, a Renaissance a cappella choir in Gloucester, and of the children’s choirs for First Unitarian Society in Newton.Ĭurrently, Ms. As a Brandeis Visiting Scholar, she has presented lecture demonstrations at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center and at Regis College. LeClair has conducted workshops for the Syracuse Schola Cantorum, Concord’s Ars & Amici, and Greater Boston Choral Consortium. In addition to her work with Cappella Clausura, Ms.
She made her conducting debut in Boston’s Jordan Hall in March of 2002. Cappella Clausura’s discography includes Vespers of Cozzolani, Italian Style (2008), Passionately UnConventional (2011), and Love Songs of a Renaissance Teenager (2014).Īmelia LeClair, Resident Scholar at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center, received her BA in Music Theory and Composition from UMass Boston and her MM in Choral Conducting from New England Conservatory, studying with Simon Carrington. This repertoire includes music by medieval composers Hildegard von Bingen, Kassia, and the anonymous Trobairitz/Trouvères (troubadours) Renaissance composers Vittoria Aleotti and Sulpitia Cesis Baroque composers Isabella Leonarda, Barbara Strozzi, and Elizaberth Jacquet de la Guerre Classical composer Marianna von Martines Romantic composer-performers Clara Wieck Schumann and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and the twentieth- and twenty-first-century’s Rebecca Clarke, Erna Woll, Patricia Van Ness, Abbie Betinis, Sinta Wuller, and Emma Lou Diemer. Over the last ten years, the ensemble has performed an ever-widening repertoire for enthusiastic audiences in concert halls, churches, and academic settings. The core of the vocal ensemble is a group of eight-to-twelve singers who perform a cappella, with continuo, and with chamber orchestra, as the repertoire requires. Cappella Clausura was founded in 2004 by Amelia LeClair to research, study, and perform the music of women composers.
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