Tapestry

Tapestry is a vocal trio focusing on music from the Medieval and modern eras. It had been founded in 1994 by Laurie Monahan, who continues to be the quartet’s movie director. Monahan, a mezzo soprano, includes a significant background in the American early music motion. She’s performed and trained early music repertoire since about 1980, and was a co-founder from the ensemble Task Ars Nova (P.A.N.) In the 1980s she participated in the Sequentia group’s pioneering saving of music from the medieval German Abbess Hildegard von Bingen. Since that time she has stayed from the ecstatic music of the mystic composer and literary body. The various other founders of the group had been Cristi Catt and Daniela Tosic. These were accustomed to one another as fellow graduate learners on the Longy College of Music, where both often participated in Middle ages and past due twentieth hundred years music. Catt is certainly a higher soprano. Furthermore to her musical schooling, she’s a history in movie theater. She brings to the ensemble a pastime in dilemma, narrative, and motion from the performers. Tosic, the alto, originates from the Slavic vocal custom, contributing particular richness with their vocal mix. She is an excellent calligrapher, and frequently writes out the ratings and parts for the group from the initial middle ages notation. They strategy their concerts from the idea of look at of observing the first music’s historic framework and authentic overall performance style, but as though it were a full time income, modern type of music. They undertake tests in vocal color and make use of movement while executing to make use of the executing space, whether a hall or cathedral, or various other, nontraditional place. They often times add accompanying equipment, such as middle ages harp, vielle, and percussion. Their initial recording was in the Telarc label’s Music of Angels, a task from the Outfit P.A.N. where they made an appearance as guest performers. Their 1997 discharge, the first within their own best, was Celestial Light, a recital of Hildegard’s music instances to celebrate the 900th wedding anniversary of her delivery.