Accentus

The Accentus Chamber Choir, actually “Le Choeur de Chambre Accentus,” was founded in 1992 by choral movie director Laurence Equilbey, who, incidentally, is a female. Accentus is bound to 32 people and was originally founded to explore a cappella books in the chamber choir format through the nineteenth and twentieth generations. Within the framework of their personal concerts, that is still the guideline, but through collaborative tasks with period orchestras such as for example Concerto Köln and Akademie für Alte Musik, Accentus in addition has earned a status on disk as a superb chorus in Baroque, Classical, and Intimate period repertoire aswell. Located in Paris, Accentus also likes an excellent romantic relationship with several contemporary composers, such as for example Pascal Dusapin, Philippe Manoury, and Pierre Boulez, and offers formed a smaller sized, subsidiary choir expressly for the efficiency of songs known as Axe 21. Accentus trips in some area of the globe annually and stopped at america in 2000. The Accentus Chamber Choir specifically information for the French concern Naïve. The group offers received several honors inluding a 2004 Grammy nomination and five Diapason d’Or honours in 2011.