Music Department Concert Series听
Concert in St Michael鈥檚 Church, Bugle St., Southampton SO14 2AG
Saturday 17 September 2011, 7:30pm
FREE ADMISSION to staff and students of the University of Southampton
Easter at the Sistine Chapel
Palestrina, Du Fay, Morales, and other Papal composers
Described as 鈥榩erhaps England鈥檚 most accomplished interpreter of Renaissance sacred music鈥� (International Record Review), The Brabant Ensemble has built an international reputation for high-quality performance of sixteenth-century masterpieces, with a particular emphasis on lesser-known composers. Founded in 1998, the Ensemble has recorded on the Hyperion label since 2006, and in 2011 will make its tenth recording with Hyperion. On the concert platform, The Brabant Ensemble has appeared in Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, and Spain as well as the UK, including at this year鈥檚听 York Early Music Festival, broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Stephen Rice is a performer and musicologist based at the University of Southampton, where since 2008 he has held a Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Formerly a choral scholar at King鈥檚 College, Cambridge, he gained a doctorate from Oxford University in 2004, with a dissertation on the five-part motets of Nicolas Gombert (c1495-c1558). He has published on the music of Thomas Tallis, Crist贸bal de Morales, Jacobus Clemens non Papa, and Josquin Desprez, and on the theorist Matheo de Aranda. Stephen鈥檚 performance interests alongside The Brabant Ensemble include directing the New Chamber Opera Studio (2000-05), and he is Director of Music at the church of St Mary Magdalen, Oxford.
The Brabant Ensemble鈥檚 UK concerts in 2011 are supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council: thanks to this support, tickets for this concert are offered free of charge to staff and students at the University of Southampton.
Please contact Louise Johnson (l.l.johnson@soton.ac.uk;听 023 8059 8424) to reserve tickets.