The Yale Russian Chorus (YRC) is North America’s oldest collegiate Slavic choir recognized as one of the world’s premier performance ensembles of Slavic music today. Founded in 1953 by Denis Mickiewicz, a Yale student at the time, the YRC is a tenor-bass a cappella choral ensemble specializing in sacred and secular Slavic choral music.

The YRC repertoire spans the twelfth century to the twenty-first, and stretches across Eastern Europe and the Caucasus from Slovakia to Georgia, including a variety of sacred and secular settings. These include ancient chant, liturgical hymns, folk songs, and works by such composers as Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff, to name a few. The albums of the Yale Russian Chorus have been placed on the New York Times critics’ choice list and described as an essential recording by National Public Radio’s Performance Today.

This event is open to the public and is sponsored by the Russian Studies Department.