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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 on the Amon Ra, Woodmansterne and Naxos labels. 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. In the last few months the Rose Consort has issued CDs of
instrumental music by the ' Ferraboscos (father and son) and John Ward on the German label
cpo.
Rose Consort concerts often include guest soloists such as sopranos Emma Kirkby and Ellen
Hargis, mezzos Catherine King and Clare Wilkinson, the vocal groups Red Byrd and the BBC
Singers, lutenists Jacob Heringman, Jakob Lindberg and Christopher Wilson 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; Boulder,
Colorado; Portland, Oregon and Seattle) as well as at the Greenwich International Festival
of Early Music in London. The Consort is in residence each year at Dartington International
Summer School. Future concerts include a recital with Emma Kirkby for Spitalfields Festival
in the City of London, and performances in Edinburgh and Beverley. |
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