The Concord Ensemble

The voices of The Concord Ensemble came together toward the end of 1996 to experiment with various "read through" sessions of late-renaissance and early-baroque vocal literature. Almost instantaneously the members of the group as well as the local musical community recognized they had something really special on their hands.

The Concord Ensemble is the winner of the 1998 Early Music America / Dorian Records Competition, and the First Competition in Performance of Hispano-American Music. The ensemble is a regularly featured vocal sextet at the Bloomington Early Music Festival, where it has premiered several newly discovered manuscripts of sacred Latin-American colonial works. A close collaborative effort with musicologist Egberto Bermúdez from the Fundación Música and the Indiana University Latin American Music Center, yielded a performance which combined the voices of The Concord Ensemble and the Philadelphia-based renaissance wind band Piffaro. Angela Mariani, producer for WFIU's syndicated program "HARMONIA" featured this live performance in a NPR radio broadcast highlighting the best of the 1997 and 1998 Bloomington Early Music Festival.

For the short history of The Concord Ensemble the group has gained an impressive status at local and national levels, having performed extensively in the Midwest, as well as in a variety of venues in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, Jacksonville, Nashville, and Cleveland, to name a few. More recently, The Concord Ensemble received rave revues during their European debut at the TAGE ALTER MUSIK festival in Regensburg, Germany. For this event, The Concord Ensemble joined the forces of the Philadelphia renaissance wind band PIFFARO, where their debut performance was hailed as "one of the most important discoveries in the early music scene." Frequent collaborations with various organizations, both cultural and academic, and with a diversity of local performers and associations result in musically enriching exchanges.

The Concord Ensemble commitment to new musicological research has also created new and exciting opportunities for performance, such as a program based on George Houle's edition and study of the French chanson Doulce mémoire, and several contemporaneous sacred and secular pieces. In addition to giving concerts of early music, The Concord Ensemble has also been engaged in the performance of several contemporary vocal works such as Libby Larsen's Billy the Kid, and two works by Hayes Biggs at the National Convention of the Society of Composers, Inc.

The ensemble continues to perform regularly in the US and abroad. It's first commercial recording was released in September, 1999. The program entitled "The Victory of Santiago: Voices of Renaissance Spain" will feature a mass by Tomás Luis de Victoria, several motets by Cristóbal de Morales, and a variety of secular works by Juan Vásquez and Mateo Flecha. To date, the group continues to maintain the highest performance standards it set out to achieve from its very inception, when a bunch of six multi-talented individuals simply got together to experience the sheer joy of singing superlative vocal literature for the sake of its beauty and potential for artistic expression.

Discography

The Victory of Santiago: Voices of Renaissance Spain

La guerra Veni, Domine, et noli tardare Jubilate Deo omnis terra Lagrimas de mi consuelo (version 1) Lagrimas de mi consuelo (version 2) Quien dize quel'ausencia O sacrum convivium Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas El que sin ti bibir ya no querria Ojos morenos, Quando nos veremos? Missa Dum complerentur Kyrie Gloria Credo Sanctus-Benedictus Agnus Dei

Dorian Recordings and Early Music America, a service organization for early music in North America, present the debut commercial recording of the Grand Prize-Winner in the First Dorian-EMA Recording Competition. More than eighty entries were judged, ranging from instrumental soloists to Baroque chamber orchestras. And the winners were... The Concord Ensemble who bring to life once again some of the notable 16th -century Spanish composers. Works of Mateo Flecha "the Elder," Juan Vásquez, Thomás Luis de Victoria, and Juan Bermudo are presented for your enjoyment. They range from the sacred to the secular, from humor to mysticism. Explore the musical world of Spanish Renaissance Masters with this award winning male ensemble!

6544 CD $15.98

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