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A native of Whitehouse, Ohio, Frederick Jodry holds a Bachelor's degree in Organ Performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston, where he studied organ with Yuko Hayashi and conducting with Lorna Cooke de Varon and Donald Teeters. Upon graduation, Mr. Jodry received the Chadwick Medal, awarded each year for outstanding promise in both musical performance and academic excellence. Continuing his studies at the NEC, he was awarded a Master's degree in Early Music Performance in 1987, during which time he studied harpsichord with Francis Fitch and organ with William Porter. Also in 1987, he won first prize in the Young Artist's Competition on the Boston Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
As a student at the New England Conservatory, Mr. Jodry founded the Schola Cantorum of Boston, a fourteen-voice ensemble dedicated to the performance of Renaissance sacred music. For the last dozen years, he has led the Schola Cantorum in concerts throughout New England. Besides performing frequently at the Boston Early Music Festival, the group has performed at the American Renaissance Society, on National Public Radio, and on Boston's WGBH radio. The Schola Cantorum and the Boston Camerata have collaborated in numerous projects, including appearances at Tanglewood and Merkin Hall. Together the two groups have recorded five CDs, two of which also feature the Brown University Chamber Singers. Their most recent joint recording, Simple Gifts: Shaker Chants and Spirituals (Erato), topped the Billboard classical music charts.
As a vocal countertenor soloist, Mr. Jodry has sung with the Boston Cecilia, the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal, and Gustave Leonhardt at the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute. From 1983 to 1989, Mr. Jodry served as Associate Organist and Choirmaster at the Church of the Advent in Boston. Prior to his arrival at Brown, he was organist at the Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
You can hear Frederick Jodry (leading the Schola Cantorum and/or the Brown University Chorus) performing with us on the following currently available recordings:
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