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Chalice Consort is pleased to have been reviewed by San Francisco Classical Voice for two concert sets in the 2008-2009 inaugural season. Click below to read the reviews.
Chalice Consort is auditioning for countertenors and high tenors. You can read more about the audition process here.
Chalice Consort will begin calling for submissions for the 2012 Early Music Scholars Competition (EMSC) soon.
Chalice will soon call for submissions for the EMSC 2011/2012. So, stay tuned! Scholars will be invited to prepare new editions of previously unpublished works of Renaissance choral music that would complement sixteenth-century composer TBA, the centerpiece of the upcoming Chalice Consort Early Music Conference (CCEMC, previously called EMMC). You can read more about the competition, submission rules and criteria here. The submission deadline is January 15, 2012. Chalice will announce the five pieces to be presented at the CCEMC no later than February 10, 2012.
Chalice Consort welcomes Davitt Moroney as Artistic Director.
Chalice Consort is pleased to announce that Moroney will join Chalice as its first Artistic Director, a position that has been vacant for two years. Soprano Rebekah Wu, founder of the ensemble, says “it was important for Chalice Consort to find the right artistic director, someone who shares the group’s vision and believes in its mission of facilitating the discoveries of forgotten music.” Moroney is no stranger to this sort of endeavor – in 2005, he discovered Alessandro Striggio’s presumed-lost Mass for 40 Voices, making news around the globe. This shared passion for the revival of “lost” music makes Moroney, in Wu’s view, the perfect champion for Chalice Consort’s ambitions.
Chalice Consort Congratulates Peter S. Poulos, the Winner of the 2010 Early Music Mining Conference.
Early Music Mining Conference, held in San Francisco on April 10, 2010, featured the presentation of four newly edited and previously unpublished works of Renaissance choral music in what eminent British choral conductor Jeremy Summerly has called “a landmark event for the global early music community.” The Conference brought together scholars, performers, and listeners of early music in a unique combination of lecture, performance, and discussion that included the modern day
premiere of the newly edited pieces of music sung by Chalice Consort. After the presentation, discussion, and performance of each “newly mined” edition, the audience and panel of scholars voted for the editions they preferred.
The first place winner was Peter S. Poulos (University of Cincinnati) with his edition of Quae est ista que progreditur (1597) by Italian composer Simone Molinaro (c.1570-1636). In second place was Sean Doherty (Trinity College, Dublin) with his edition of Vidi aquam (c.1520) by an anonymous composer, preserved in the Lambeth Choirbook in London, England. The success of the Conference has led Chalice Consort to reaffirm its commitment to other projects of this nature. As Dr. Poulos reflected, “the first annual Early Music Mining Conference presented by Chalice Consort was a highly innovative and in fact
triumphant event. It was a unique opportunity to bring together scholars, performers, audience, and a panel of eminent early music specialists in an interactive re-discovery of long-forgotten musical treasures. Needless to say, it was a wonderful experience for me to hear Simone Molinaro's Quae est ista quae progreditur performed brilliantly by the Chalice Consort. That my edition of the work was voted by the audience and panel as the winning piece at the EMMC was a thrilling affirmation of the beauty of this music.” You can read the entire press release here.
Chalice Consort is presenting five newly transcribed, never published in modern edition or publicly performed pieces at the Early Music Mining Conference April 10, 2010. The winners of the Early Music Scholars’ Competition, whose editions will be featured at the Early Music Mining Conference, are Sean Doherty (Trinity College, Dublin), Peter Poulos (University of Cincinnati, Ohio), Jessica Chisholm (Rutgers University, New Jersey), Michael Anderson (Eastman School of Music, New York), and Daniel Donnelly (McGill University, Montreal). Their editions being premiered at the Conference include part of a mass by English composer William Mundy, a motet by Italian composer Simone Molinaro, a trio of plainchants for St. Anne, and two motets by anonymous composers.
San Francisco Classical Voice previewed Chalice Consort's upcoming November 6 & 7, 2009 concerts: "The enterprising young choral ensemble Chalice Consort sure dreams big. Barely a year old, the group has already taken on a challenging mission: to present performances emphasizing lost, ignored, or otherwise overlooked Renaissance and Baroque repertory.
More than merely performing, the group aims to get scholars into the act, with an upcoming competition and conference to share their own discoveries. And in a real coup, the ensemble has enlisted early-music standout Davitt Moroney to direct its 2009-2010 opening concert of music by William Byrd, titled “By the Waters of Babylon,” performed in San Francisco and Oakland..." You can read the rest of the preview at SFCV.org.
We will post other news items here as and when they come up. Be sure to check back from time to time!
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