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Biography
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The Rose Consort of Viols with Clare Wilkinson at L'Eglise
d'Asfeld, Asfeld Festival June 2006.
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The Rose Consort of Viols takes its name from the celebrated
family of viol makers, whose work spanned the growth and
flowering of the English consort repertoire. With its unique
blend of intimacy, intricacy, passion and flamboyance, this music
ranges from Taverner and Byrd, to Lawes, Locke and Purcell,
forming the basis of the Rose Consort’s programmes, which
may also include singers, lutes and keyboard instruments. The
Rose Consort has received awards for its research and performance
of newly devised programmes, some of which have been toured on
the Early Music Network, and has also commissioned and performed
new pieces for voices and viols by Malcolm Bruno, Elizabeth
Liddle and Ivan Moody.
The Consort performs extensively throughout Britain and the
continent of Europe, appears regularly on the BBC and in the
major London concert halls, and has made a number of highly
acclaimed recordings for Amon Ra, Woodmansterne and Naxos. The
Consort’s CDs for Naxos include an anthology of Elizabethan
Consort Music in addition to those of Byrd, Dowland, Gibbons,
Jenkins, Lawes, Tomkins and Purcell (selected by The Sunday Times
as the best available version) previously released. More recently
the Rose Consort has issued CDs of instrumental music by the
Ferraboscos (father and son) and John Ward on the German label
cpo and a recording with Clare Wilkinson of music by Tallis, Tye,
Byrd and Tomkins on the Deux-Elles label.
Rose Consort concerts often include guest soloists such as
soprano Emma Kirkby, mezzo Clare Wilkinson, the vocal groups Red
Byrd, Stile Antico and the BBC Singers, lutenists Jacob
Heringman, Jakob Lindberg and keyboard player Timothy Roberts.
The Consort regularly performs at the York Early Music Festival
and has also featured at Festivals in Canada (Festival Vancouver)
and the USA (Boston, New York, Boulder, Portland, Oregon and
Seattle) as well as at the Greenwich International Festival of
Early Music in London. The Consort is in residence each July at
Dartington International Summer School and has been featured as a
guest ensemble at the Pan-Pacific Gamba Gathering in Hawaii.
Future concerts include performances at the 2011 York Early Music
Festival and a concert in Europe’s earliest surviving
purpose-built concert hall, the Holywell Music Room in Oxford.
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