Vassar Camerata
The Vassar Camerata, founded in 2004, is the college's only student-run Baroque ensemble and performs all types of early music from before 1800. The ensemble holds open auditions at the beginning of the academic year, and includes approximately forty-five instrumentalists and singers. Camerata rehearses Monday and Wednesday nights and performs one concert each semester sponsored by Vassar’s Music Department. Our conductors and officers are all active students at Vassar College. Though we don’t use original instruments, we do rehearse and perform using eighteenth-century performance practices.
Recent Repertoire
- Arcangelo Corelli, “Christmas” Concerto
- Henry Purcell, O Sing Unto the Lord
- Georg Telemann, Overture in G minor
- George Frideric Handel, Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 No. 9
Vivaldi, Credo
Past Musical Directors of the Vassar Camerata
- Alison DeSimone ‘07 Currently pursuing a Masters in musicology at the University of Michigan.
- Eli Spindel ‘05 Founded and conducts the String Orchestra of Brooklyn.