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“The Maryland Cantabile is a community chorus dedicated to exploring music from the early to contemporary period.  Our current focus is early music and we welcome the opportunity to collaborate with other music groups.”

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Added on: Nov 12, 2012 | Hits: 169

“Matthew Leese is known as a versatile baritone, conductor, director, and teacher, specializing in early music, art song and opera. He has founded three critically acclaimed ensembles, including the professional early music ensemble 'Gravitación'. His extensive performing experience in the USA, New Zealand, Asia and Europe includes numerous opera, recital and oratorio credits. CD credits include ‘Elements’ and ‘Le Stagioni’ with First Step Records, a disc of new music by NZ composer Anthony Ritchie, and as medieval soloist on the 2007 Norton Anthology. As a director, Matthew has led productions of many staged productions, and is known for his expertise in period stage movement. Matthew serves on the Voice and Opera faculty at Millikin University, is Co-Artistic Director of the New Brunswick Early Music Festival, Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church of Urbana and is pursuing a Doctorate in Choral Conducting at the University of Illinois.“

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Added on: Jun 08, 2011 | Hits: 201

"A chorister from the age of seven, Philip Cave has been involved with choral music all his life. He studied music at Oxford University with Simon Preston and was a Choral Scholar and Lay-clerk at Christ Church Cathedral, where he also directed the College Choir, the Cathedral Voluntary Choir, and sang with the Schola Cantorum and the Clerkes of Oxenford. During the following years, he taught music, performed as a soloist and conducted several ensembles including the Oxford Harmonic Society, a city choir of 120 voices, with whom he performed much of the standard choral society repertoire.

He was a founding member of the Tallis Scholars with whom he gave over 400 performances, and for many years a lay-clerk in New College Choir, directed by Edward Higginbottom.

He has performed, toured and recorded with the Hilliard Ensemble, The Sixteen, the Choir of the English Consort, the King's Consort, the Schütz Choir of London and the Cardinall's Musick. " See website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Mar 08, 2008 | Hits: 362

“With a voice reviewed as “arresting, haunting, expressive, clear-toned, and sweet,” soprano Phoebe Jevtović Alexander performs chamber music, early opera, and experimental music in the United States and abroad. She has appeared as a soloist with the Waverly Consort, American Bach Soloists, Musica Angelica, Magnificat, and North Holland Opera. Roles performed include Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Amphitrite in Locke’s Tempest, Cupid in Purcell’s Timon of Athens, and the title role in Rossi’s Orfeo.
    
Among Phoebe’s varied collaborations are the baroque ensemble La Monica; medieval ensemble Cançionèr; art song with celebrated pianist Robert Thies; and early music and dance with Italy’s visionary Art Monastery Project. She has also toured the US and Indonesia with Gamelan X (Balinese-inspired hybrid world music ensemble); and sings Balkan folk music with Kitka. Phoebe has recorded for Dorian, Nonesuch, Wave, and Gothic Records, and was interviewed in the November 2009 issue of Classical Singer Magazine.

Phoebe completed her Master of Arts degree in Early Music Performance at the University of Southern California, and has edited a book of 17th century solo songs by Tarquinio Merula that is due to be published by A&R Editions.”

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Added on: Feb 07, 2011 | Hits: 250

"Inspired by the renowned chapel choirs of the Renaissance, Pomerium revives the golden age of a cappella singing. The ensemble, featuring some of the finest singers in the country and acclaimed for its luminous sound, performs frequently in New York—at such venues as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Frick Collection, and Music Before 1800—as well as across the USA and abroad. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Aug 06, 2008 | Hits: 474

"Founded in the spring of 2005, Prometheus is a chamber ensemble dedicated to giving vibrant, historical performances of Baroque music. Unique because its members are equally entrenched in the scholarly and performance worlds, the group breathes life into Baroque music with its bold, sensitive interpretations of the repertoire.

The ensemble's concerts feature Baroque gesture and poetry, transforming them into unique visual and literary spectacles. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Aug 06, 2008 | Hits: 466

“Born on St. Cecilia's Day, Countertenor
RYLAND ANGEL was a chorister at Bristol Cathedral and a lay-clerk at Chester Cathedral.

He trained as a lawyer before deciding to pursue a professional career as a singer in 1991 when he started studying with David Mason.

Since then, Mr. Angel has received a Grammy nomination and has performed with William Christie, Rene Jacobs, Ivor Bolton, Roy Goodman, Christophe Rousset, Philippe Herreweghe, Christophe Coin, Gabriel Garrido, Cantus Köln, Le Concert Spirituel, Le Parlement de Musique, the Ensemble of Early Music of New York and Ensemble La Fenice. …”

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Added on: Mar 01, 2012 | Hits: 201

“San Francisco Renaissance Voices made our debut in 2004 with a "standing room only" performance of Victoria's Requiem and quickly became a favorite of Bay Area Early Music audiences.
 
We have consistently earned praise for our "gossamer sound ... a sound something akin to spiritual levitation" as well as recognition for our imaginative programming and christened the Bay Area's"hipper than thou" Early Music ensemble by San Francisco Classical Voice and in 2010 SFWeekly chose us as
"Best Classical Music" for their Best of San Francisco edition.

We are a professional mixed-voice ensemble dedicated to performing and exploring the a cappella choral music of the Renaissance particularly lesser-known and rarely-performed works, as well as exploring music from this period outside of the traditional European canon.”

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Added on: Sep 26, 2011 | Hits: 193

“Stephanie Prewitt has performed in theaters, cathedrals, and concert halls throughout the United States and Europe, in repertoire spanning eight centuries. A resident of Europe for two years after completing her university training, she soloed regularly with the renowned Clemencic Consort in Vienna and Paris. She was a member of the six-voice ensemble La Cappella, and toured with them extensively throughout Austria, Italy, and Scandinavia, in eclectic repertory ranging from obscure masterpieces of the Austrian Renaissance to American spirituals.

In the USA, she has sung with many festivals and ensembles: Aspen Music Festival; Carmel Bach Festival; New Texas Music Works; Round Top Early Music Festival; Victoria Bach Festival; New York Ensemble for Early Music; Texas Early Music Project; and La Follia Austin Baroque. Her most recent honors include an Austin Critics Table Award (2001) and the Adams Vocal Master Class Fellowship (2001) from the internationally acclaimed Carmel Bach Festival. She is featured on a recording of Koch International, singing 12th-century polyphonic chant with Heliotrope, an ensemble based in California. In Europe, she has recorded for Preiser and Nuovo Era.“

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Added on: Apr 18, 2010 | Hits: 298

“The Suspicious Cheese Lords was founded by Clifton "Skip" West in 1996. Skip had the typical American dream of wanting to sing Thomas Tallis' Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah. To accomplish this goal, he enticed a core group of five amateur singers, friends who were current and former members of the Cathedral Choral Society, by promising a home-cooked dinner to those who would come and bellow.

Since then, the Cheese Lords have consisted of between 10 and 15 members. They still gather in Skip's dining room once a week to sing, drink, talk, eat, drink, sing, and did we say drink? In spite of this—or perhaps because of it—this male a cappella ensemble has been able to prepare and perform high-quality and heart-felt music throughout the Washington, D.C. area. …”

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Added on: Sep 26, 2011 | Hits: 199

“The mission of The Bach Ensemble, Inc. is:

• to enhance the classical musical offerings of Southwest Florida;
• to offer quality musical performances;
• to offer public concerts featuring the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and other Baroque contemporaries, as well as composers related to the Baroque era and beyond; and
• to offer specific workshops and lectures about Bach and his contemporaries as a public education program in the community and in schools.“

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Added on: Jan 11, 2012 | Hits: 202

“Hailed as “a superb choir” (Gramophone), as well as “a choir to watch” (Fanfare), the Tudor Choir and its director Doug Fullington have received national and international attention as interpreters of Renaissance polyphony and early American music. Founded by Fullington in 1993, the Tudor Choir is a Seattle-based professional vocal chamber ensemble of 12 core singers; the group can expand to up to 40 members for works such as Thomas Tallis’s monumental Spem in alium. The Tudor Choir is a resident ensemble at historic Blessed Sacrament Church in Seattle. …“

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Added on: Jan 22, 2011 | Hits: 213

“The Baroque Camerata de Caracas was founded in December 1985 by Professor Isabel Palacios in order to achieve a natural expansion of the repertoire that had been working with the Camerata de Caracas Renaissance and to develop, with the new choir, the music of the baroque period to early classical, whose most outstanding are located in the seventeenth century in Europe and the Colony in America. …”

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Added on: Feb 29, 2012 | Hits: 164

“The Renaissance Camerata de Caracas was founded in March 1978 by Professor Isabel Palacios with a group of Venezuelan musicians in order to interpret international early music from the Middle Ages in Europe to the Latin American Baroque …”

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Added on: Feb 29, 2012 | Hits: 177

"Linking professional and amateur countertenors and people interested in the CT repertoire" ...

Added on: Aug 03, 2007 | Hits: 443