About Creare Symphonia

Creare Symphonia, Arts Empowering Life’s resident orchestra (formerly vox Caeli Symphonia), performs major classical works and collaborates closely with Gloriæ Dei Cantores. Performances with the choir have included Handel’s Messiah and Israel in Egypt, Requiems by Brahms and Mozart, J. S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, and fully staged performances of Handel’s Saul, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, and Vaughan Williams’ The Pilgrim’s Progress. Creare Symphonia has been hailed for their “pastoral warmth” and “handsome tones”, and for “gorgeous music… played beautifully” (Boston Musical Intelligencer.) The ensemble, made up of AEL Artists and contracted freelance professionals, continues to perform year round with Gloria Dei Cantores, under the baton of Richard K. Pugsley. Concerts have included works by Bach, Bernstein, Bizet, Copland, Elgar, Finzi, Forrest, Handel, Mahler, Mozart, Pärt, Puccini, Rutter, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Verdi, Vivaldi, and Wagner. They can be heard on a number of albums with Gloriæ Dei Cantores, including Mozart: Rare Choral Works, which has been hailed as being “finely executed, energetic, vibrant…” with an “…equally dynamic and tightly knit orchestral accompaniment” (Classics Today).