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Hopkinson Smith

As an adolescent, Hopkinson Smith played classical acoustic guitar, but he discovered the globe of early music and began teaching himself to try out the lute. He graduated with honors from Harvard in 1972 having a level in musicology, which includes offered him well in his study on works created …

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Silk Road Ensemble

The Silk Street Outfit, a music collective comprising around 60 music artists, composers, storytellers, along with other artists, grew from a project and organization founded by Yo-Yo Ma in 1998. His idea was to gather musicians from varied cultures to talk about suggestions, collaborate in overall performance, and eventually broaden …

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Baltimore Consort

The Baltimore Consort is a little ensemble of instrumentalists and singers whose main focus continues to be early music, considering both classical and folk realms, frequently blurring the differentiation between your two. In the first years, its primary focus was British music through the Elizabethan period, however the group shortly …

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Parley of Instruments

Within the crowded discipline of period instrument groups, the Parley of Instruments distinguishes itself by concentrating on the repertoire for the first violin, from your Renaissance and early Baroque periods, and through the use of its understanding of this and seventeenth century vocal music to its performances of later on …

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Hespèrion XXI

Hesperion XXI may be the leading early music business from the Iberian peninsula. It really is a small combined ensemble around 12 players and performers and varies relatively with regards to the repertory selected. The founders of the group had been bowed string device participant Jordi Savall, vocalist Montserrat Figueras, …

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Phantasm

PHANTASM, whose creator Laurence Dreyfus loves to spell its name in upper-case, is a consort of viols that is dynamic on both edges from the Atlantic since it is fifty percent American and fifty percent European in regular membership. Dreyfus was created in Boston, MA, and was raised in Philadelphia. …

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La Capella Reial de Catalunya

La Capella Reial de Catalunya (Royal Capella of Catalonia) is a vocal group that was founded by Jordi Savall so that they can re-create the normal court chapel music organization of the royal court from the Iberian peninsula in the Renaissance period and in to the Baroque. In 1974, Savall, …

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La Venexiana

This marvelous Italian vocal ensemble is focused on the performance of early music, mostly from the Renaissance era. Founded from a cooperation between soprano Rossana Bertini as well as the group’s musical movie director, countertenor Claudio Cavina, the group followed its name in the anonymous Renaissance humor La Venexiana, a …

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