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“Engaging stage presence, backed by programsput together
with exceptional imagination…irresistable!” The Washington Poste Wa
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.
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. She 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 Hespersus CD to be released Fall, 2007-a musical patchwork and 22 year retrospective of early american music by Hesperus and their music guests.
* Scott Reiss, co-founder of Hesperus died in 2005.For more information on Scott Reiss, visit the Hesperus website.
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Hesperus
An Early American Quilt ( MM235) 