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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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