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The vision of Hesperus is innovative, multi-cultural and historically informed early music ensemble. With impressive credentials in early music, they are also one of the nation's first, and most important, performers of "chamber folk" music which brings the energy and spirit of traditional music to virtuoso performances on folk and early musical instruments. The group recorded an Early American Music series of recordings for the Maggie's music label that are best sellers in their genre and carried by many museums stores including America's Smithsonian Institute and Colonial Williamsburg. Three of the recordings feature the virtuoso performances of Scott Reiss* , founding member of the Hesperus Ensemble, Tina Chancey, music director and former member of the Folger Consort, at Washington D.C.'s Folger Shakespeare Library and Mark Cudek, a member of the acclaimed early music ensemble Baltimore Consort.
“Engaging stage presence, backed by programs put together with exceptional imagination…irresistible!”
- The Washington Post
Tina Chancey (see duo photo above with Hesperus member, Grant Heried) is music director of Hesperus. Tina is a former member of the Folger Consort, the Ensemble for Early Music and the New York Renaissance Band.
A
multi-instrumentalist specializing in early bowed strings from the rebec and
vielle to the kamenj, viol and lyra, she has received grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts to support solo performances on the pardessus de viole
at the Kennedy Center and Weil Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
"Outstanding and unusual!"
- The Baltimore Sun
Tina has performed
with the National Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonia, with Victoria de los Angeles
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with Sephardic musician Flory Jagoda, QUOG,
an improvisational multi-media music theater group, and the early music ensembles,
the New York Consort of Viols, Waverly Consort, Terra Nova Consort, Ex Umbris,
and La Rondinella.
Dr. Chancey received her PhD in Musicology from the Union Institute. Her articles on early music appear in scholarly and popular publications, and she has recorded for a score of labels from Arabesque to Windham Hill.
She directs “What's That Note, Inc.,” teaching sight singing and ear training to amateur singers, and also works as an independent recording producer and consultant with Maggie's Music. Tina has just produced and performed on the new Hesperus CD to be released Fall, 2007-a musical patchwork and 22 year retrospective of early american music by Hesperus and their music guests.
"The ultimate crossover group...a postmodern medley of fun"
- Arizona Star
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Tina Chancey with Scott Reiss (1951-2205)
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The CDs
- An Early American Quilt ( MM235)
- Colonial America (MM227)
- Celtic Roots (MM220)
- Early American Roots (MM216)
The Early American Music Series - 4 CDS
featuring Hesperus Early Music Ensemble (PDF 867kb)
More CDs by Tina Chancey and Hesperus
- The Versatile Viol: Tina Chancey plays Scottish and Irish Music (RS418)
- Versatile Viol III: American Landscapes (RS417)
Also Appearing on...
- Maggie's Music Sampler, Vol. 2 (MM305)
- Scottish Reflections (MM225)
- Celtic Tapestry (RS410)
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