(LENOX, Mass.) — The Cantilena Chamber Choir, in concert with Cambridge Concentus, will present the rarely heard Missa Christi Resurgentis by Heinrich Biber. The performance will be held at Trinity Church on Sunday, May 4, 2014, at 3pm. Also on the program is the Glory of Venice, music for multiple choirs and instrumental groups by Giovanni Gabrieli, and music by Gesualdo.

Dr. Jeremy Yudkin, professor of music and chairman of the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the School of Music at the College of Fine Arts, Boston University, will deliver a pre-concert lecture at 2pm.

The Cantilena Choir, now in its tenth season, received Choral Arts New England’s Alfred Nash Patterson Award in 2011 for programming a unique concert at the Berkshire Museum. Andrea Goodman, the founder and director of the choir, also serves as the Music Director for the annual summer Saratoga Choral Festival in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Cambridge Concentus performs vocal, orchestral, and chamber works of the 17th and 18^th centuries. The group was founded on the ideal of bringing a fresh perspective to the performance of familiar repertoire, and performers are drawn from a new generation of early-music specialists committed to infusing their energetic performance style with the fruits of recent scholarship. Cambridge Concentus, under the direction of their co-artistic advisor Joshua Rifkin, recently embarked upon a four-concert tour of Japan where a critic hailed their rendering of JS Bach’s St. Matthew Passion as “an epoch-making performance.”

All tickets are $30 and children are admitted free. Tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance through the Choir’s website. Reservations: 518-791-0185 or satbchoir@yahoo.com. Trinity Church is located at 88 Walker Street in Lenox.