www.a-cappella.com

A-capella.com. All vocal CDs, sheet music. A-capela.com, part of the Mainely A Cappella family of companies (MAC) offers the largest selection of a cappella music in the world through both a printed catalog and Internet e-commerce (80% of sales are now on-line). As a resource for singers, MAC also provides sheet music, instructional materials, videos and accessories such as pitchpipes. Located in scenic Southwest Harbor, Maine, MAC imports music from all over the world and sells to customers all over the world. About 60% of sales are CDs, 25% of sales are sheet music titles, and 15% is "other."

www.accentus.asso.fr

Accentus Choeur de Chambre. Fondé par Laurence Equilbey dans le but d'interpréter les œuvres majeures du répertoire a cappella et de s'investir dans la création contemporaine, Accentus est aujourd'hui un ensemble professionnel de 32 chanteurs se produisant dans les plus grands festivals français et internationaux. Outre les concerts a cappella et les formations solistiques contemporaines, sous l'appellation Axe 21/ Accentus, l'ensemble collabore par ailleurs régulièrement avec chefs et orchestres prestigieux (Pierre Boulez, Jonathan Nott, Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre de Paris, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen/ Haute Normandie, Concerto Köln, Akademie für Alte Musik). Il participe également à des productions lyriques, tant dans des créations contemporaines (Perela l'Homme de Fumée de Pascal Dusapin et L'Espace Dernier de Matthias Pintscher à l'Opéra de Paris) que dans des ouvrages de répertoire (Le Barbier de Séville de G. Rossini au Festival d'Aix en Provence). L'ensemble est aussi un partenaire privilégié de la Cité de la musique avec laquelle il co-organise notamment depuis 2003 une Biennale d'Art Vocal. Il poursuit sa résidence à l'Opéra de Rouen/ Haute Normandie, articulée autour de concerts a cappella, concerts chœur et orchestre et projets lyriques avec chœur. (...)

www.chorale.qc.ca

Alliance des Chorales du Québec. L'Alliance des chorales du Québec a été fondée en 1974. C'est en 1975 qu'elle a été reconnue comme un organisme culturel privé sans but lucratif. Elle est issue de l'Alliance chorale canadienne, mouvement choral francophone canadien dont l'origine remonte à 1961. Elle fait aussi partie du mouvement choral  À Cour Joie International.

www.altramar.org

Altramar Medieval Music Ensemble. Texas, USA.

www.ariannasavall.com

Arianna Savall. Born in Basel, Switzerland in 1972, into the heart of a family of Catalan musicians, Arianna Savall, after an initial stage of general and musical education, began to study classical harp at the age of ten, and after returning to Barcelona, continued under the direction of Magdalena Barrera. (...)

www.asc.at

Arnold Schoenberg Chor. The Arnold Schoenberg Chor was founded 1972 by Erwin Ortner, who is still its artistic director. Since then the choir has established a highly praised standard among conductors, critics and the musical scene in Europe. The intensity and commitment the choir brings to performances and recordings, as well as its unique musical and technical command, are its main factor of success. All members of the choir have broad experience and expertise in vocal music and are either studying at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts currently or have already graduated.

www.arsysbourgogne.com

Arsys Bourgogne. Le chour professionnel Arsys Bourgogne a fait son apparition sur la scène artistique en octobre 1999 sous l'impulsion de la région Bourgogne et du ministère de la culture. Le chour développe, sous la direction de Pierre Cao, un projet original reposant sur la mise en valeur de cinq siècles de répertoire vocal. Chour à géométrie variable de 4 à 32 chanteurs, Arsys Bourgogne exige de ses chanteurs un extrême professionnalisme leur permettant de passer de la musique baroque au répertoire classique, romantique ou contemporain. A l'image des chanteurs qui le composent, le chour Arsys Bourgogne est profondément attaché au son. Un son unique, homogène et pur , que cisèle avec patience et humanité Pierre Cao, le chef luxembourgeois, dont l'attachement au texte est unanimement salué par la profession.

www.bbc.co.uk/singers

BBC Singers. Rightly acclaimed as a jewel in Britain's musical crown, the BBC Singers occupy a unique position in British musical life as Britain's only full-time professional chamber choir.

www.cantuscoelln.com

Cantus Coelln. Das 1987 von Konrad Junghänel gegründete solistische Vokalensemble CANTUS CÖLLN hat sich in kürzester Zeit als eines der angesehensten Ensembles dieser Art im internationalen Musikleben etabliert. Es widmet sich in erster Linie dem deutschen und italienischen Vokalrepertoire aus Renaissance und Barock: mit der Wiederbelebung eines weitgehend vergessenen Repertoires hat es in den letzten Jahren beim Publikum großen Anklang gefunden. Die meisten der inzwischen fast 30 CD-Produktionen, die ein Repertoire von Monteverdis Madrigalen, der Marienvesper, Schütz' "Psalmen Davids" bis hin zu Bachs Kantaten und Motetten umfassen, wurden mit internationalen Preisen gewürdigt. Neben zahlreichen Auszeichnungen wie z.B. dem "Edison Awards Classical", dem "Diapason d'Or", "fff du Télérama", "10 du Répertoire", dem "Choc du Monde de la Musique", dem "Grand Prix du Disque" (Académie Charles Cros) und Nominierungen für u.a. den "Grammy" und den "Grammophone Award" hat Cantus Cölln in 2002 für seine einzigartige Einspielung der "Selva morale e spirituale" von Claudio Monteverdi sowohl den "Grammophone Award", den "Jahrespreis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik" als auch den "Caecilia Price" verliehen bekommen. (...)

www.capilla.be

Capilla Flamenca. Ensemble vocal et instrumental flamand.

www.choralnet.org

Choral Denmak Web.

www.choralnet.org

Choralnet: The Internet Center for Choral Music. ChoralNet provides a central portal to online resources and communications for the global choral music community.

www.danielssings.com

David Daniel countertenor. David Daniels is known for his superlative artistry, magnetic stage presence and a voice of singular warmth and surpassing beauty, which have helped him redefine his voice category for the modern public. The young American countertenor has appeared with the world's major opera companies and on its main concert and recital stages. He made history as the first countertenor to give a solo recital in the main auditorium of Carnegie Hall. The Chicago Tribune has called Daniels "today's gold standard among countertenors." (...)

www.ensembledaedalus.org

Ensemble Daedalus. Fondé à Genève en 1984, l'Ensemble DAEDALUS, réunissant à l'origine des artistes venus du CENTRE DE MUSIQUE ANCIENNE de Genève (CH) et de la SCHOLA CANTORUM BASILIENSIS (CH), consacre les deux premières années de son activité à la recherche: les programmes qui virent les débuts de l'Ensemble à Bruges, lors du prestigieux Festival des Flandres, et à Milan, lors de MUSICA E POESIA A SAN MAURIZIO, sont le résultat concret de cette période d'études Le succès rencontré à Bruges ouvrit la voie à deux collaborations essentielles dans le parcours du groupe: avec ACCENT, tout d'abord, la maison de disques pour qui l'Ensemble a enregistré ses 8 CD, et RTB 3, la chaîne culturelle de la radio belge, coproductrice de 4 d'entre eux. Il Cantar moderno, premier CD de l' Ensemble, est salué avec enthousiasme par la critique (Diapason d'Or - Coup de Cour). (...)

www.peregrina.ch

Ensemble Peregrina. The members of the Basel-based ensemble Peregrina began working together in 1997 during their studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. The ensemble Peregrina researches and performs the repertories of twelfth to fourteenth century Europe, specializing in vocal polyphony for equal voices. The sacred and secular music of the Middle Ages, such as the organa and conductus of high medieval Notre Dame, Marian antiphons from England, Trecento madrigals and the motets of manuscripts from Montpellier and Bamberg provide a rich bounty of repertory for three voices, and serve as the backbone of the ensemble Peregrina's current work. (...)

www.escolania.cat

Escolanía de Montserrat. At present the l'Escolania choir school is formed by fifty boys, from nine to fourteen years old, who come from all over Catalonia and also from the other Catalan Countries. During the four years they stay at Montserrat they study the last stage of Primary school and the first stage of Secondary School, along with their corresponding musical studies. Each student studies two instruments, piano and a second instrument of their choice, as well as Musical Theory, Ensemble and, of course Choral singing, which is the speciality of l'Escolania. (...)

www.aseivoci.com

Ensemble Vocal A Sei Voci. Ensemble vocal français fondé en 1977, A Sei Voci s'est donné pour vocation de redécouvrir les partitions (souvent inédites) de la Renaissance et du Baroque, dans l'esprit de l'époque en donnant à leurs concerts une dimension visuelle, une mise en scène qui décuplent le pouvoir émotionnel de la musique. Leur approche s'appuie sur les dernières recherches, menées en collaboration avec plusieurs musicologues. Chaque projet donne lieu à un véritable travail de fond, alliant restitution de manuscrits originaux, recherches sur l'interprétation, concerts, master-classes, action de sensibilisation et enregistrement. Leur interprétation, si elle témoigne toujours du plus grand respect pour l'oeuvre et le répertoire, sait également s'affranchir quand il le faut, des règles établies et du poids des ornementations, pour retrouver un chant profondément charnel et sensuel. Recomposée depuis 1991 autour de l'un de ses fondateurs, Bernard Fabre Garrus, A Sei Voci est une formation à géométrie variable, constituée d'un noyau dur de 6 chanteurs solistes, auquel s'ajoutent chanteurs et instrumentistes en fonction des productions. L'ensemble a acquis en très peu d'années, une réputation internationale dans le répertoire polyphonique et a été élu en 1994, "Ensemble vocal de l'année" dans le cadre des Victoires de la Musique Classique. A Sei Voci donne un soixantaine de concerts chaque année et se produit sur le plan national et international dans les salles et les festivals les plus prestigieux. Ses enregistrements, parus chez AUVIDIS/ASTREE (Josquin Desprez, Allegri, Bencini, Janequin, Jommelli,...) ont reçu de nombreuses distinctions et les critiques les plus élogieuses des spécialis.

www.lareverdie.com

laReverdie. Ensemble di Musica Medioevale. Ispirandosi alle reverdie - liriche romanze che celebrano il ritorno della primavera - l'ensemble laReverdie è stato fondato nel 1986 da due coppie di sorelle, cantanti e strumentiste, per esplorare il repertorio musicale europeo dall'alto medioevo alla fine del XIV secolo. Il puntuale, appassionato studio filologico col quale laReverdie allestisce i suoi programmi - da sempre focalizzati su temi d'intensa valenza culturale e simbolica - non rappresenta che uno degli strumenti mediante i quali l'ensemble infonde il massimo della vitalità, dell'intensità e della naturalezza in ciò che propone al pubblico. Una particolare attenzione è rivolta all'ampio ed in gran parte inesplorato dominio del "teatro sacro": drammi liturgici e liturgia drammatica, rappresentazioni collettive, manifestazioni evocative della religiosità di un'epoca i cui echi non si sono ancora spenti. L'aspirazione non è quella di catalogare meticolosamente dei reperti archeologici, bensì di ricostruirli con affettuosa fedeltà, musicale testuale e ideologica, affinché chi ne fruisce possa percepirli in quanto frammenti pulsanti d'una cultura trascorsa ma non perduta. Dal 1991, per l'allestimento di programmi con organici allargati, laReverdie si avvale della collaborazione di vari musicisti, fra cui stabilmente Doron David Sherwin, uno dei più celebri specialisti di cornetto, rivelatosi peraltro versatile percussionista e cantante. (...)

www.lavenexiana.net

La Venexiana Madrigal Group. The name LA VENEXIANA is taken from an anonymous renaissance comedy, one of the cardinal points of reference in Italian renaissance theater both for its use of language, a combination of Italian and dialect, and for its acute rendering of a society and manners. It was, in fact, a precursor of the commedia dell'arte. In styling itself after this glorious tradition, LA VENEXIANA aims to incorporate into its musical interpretation the theatrically, attention to language in all of its subtlety, and exultation of contrasts between refined and popular, sacred and profane, that characterize our culture today.

www.la-villanella-basel.de

La Villanella Basel. Ensemble für Alte Musik. Das Ensemble La Villanella Basel besteht aus Absolventen der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis und beschäftigt sich seit seiner Gründung 1995 anläßlich des Luther-Gedenkjahres (1996) besonders mit Musik der Renaissance und des Frühbarock. Seinen Namen verdankt es einer bäurischen italienischen Liedform: Die Villanella ging im 17. Jh. in die Kunstmusik ein, wurde nach Deutschland importiert und dort populär, was zahlreiche Villanellen-Sammlungen mit deutschen Texten belegen. (...)

www.lamc.org

Los Angeles Master Chorale. Los Angeles Master Chorale celebrates its 42nd Anniversary with this third season at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Recognized as one of Los Angeles' cultural treasures, the Chorale has received accolades for its innovative programming and its commitment to commissioning new works. In June 2003, the Master Chorale received the prestigious ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming.

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Master Chorale of Washington. Founded in 1967 by the late Paul Hill, The Master Chorale of Washington was featured in the inaugural concert of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1971 and has been performing in the Concert Hall ever since on an average of eight to ten times annually in its own subscription series and as a guest chorus for other arts organizations. In 1969, National Symphony Orchestra conductor Howard Mitchell was suddenly confronted with a problem-the organization that was contracted to be the featured chorus in an upcoming NSO concert was no longer available-so he called upon Paul Hill for help. In a matter of two short weeks, Hill recruited 44 new singers to expand a small, informal singing group of 36 with whom he had been rehearsing "...for fun, with no real plans of performing" and prepared them to perform Beethoven's demanding Fidelio with the NSO. That was the beginning of what was then called the Paul Hill Chorale and today is known as the Master Chorale of Washington.

www.masterworks.org

Masterworks Chorale of San Mateo. The Masterworks Chorale is critically recognized as one of Northern California's finest choral ensembles. Founded in 1964 by Music Director Emeritus Galen Marshall, the Chorale performs masterworks of sacred and secular choral literature from the Baroque period to today. Dr. Bryan Baker has been Music Director of the Chorale since 2002.

Each season, the Chorale performs 3 to 4 pairs of concerts featuring instrumental ensembles comprised of the Bay Area's leading professional musicians. In addition, Masterworks is joined by professional vocal soloists whose credits include appearances with leading symphony orchestras and opera companies throughout North America and Europe. Among the Chorale's guest appearances are performances with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, San Jose Symphony, the Festival of Masses, and the Cabrillo Festival. Internationally, Masterworks has received critical acclaim during seven European tours, a tour of the People's Republic of China, a performance at Avery Fisher Hall and their 1989 debut at Carnegie Hall, featuring the Verdi Requiem.

www.monteverdi.co.uk

Monteverdi Choir. Founded in 1964 by Sir John Eliot Gardiner as a specialist baroque ensemble, the Monteverdi Choir became internationally renowned for its performances and recordings. With the founding of the English Baroque Soloists in 1979 and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in 1990, Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra fast established itself as a leading influence in every area of the repertoire, winning numerous international awards, rivalling classic recordings of the catalogue, from Monteverdi to Britten. A pioneering organisation, Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra achieved its most ambitious project to date in 2000 - the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage. To mark the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, the ensembles performed all 198 of Johann Sebastian Bach's sacred cantatas in churches throughout Europe.

www.musicanet.org

Musica. International Database of Choral Music. A non-profit making association, "Musica International", created on February 6th, 1998, is devoted to developing and propagating the use of Musica database and to transforming it progressively into a virtual multimedia library.

www.musicafiorita.ch

Musica Fiorita. The contrast between the religious and the secular music of the late Renaissance and the early baroque era is the basis of the programs of the ensemble MUSICA FIORITA. Special emphasis is put on the juxtaposition of vocal and instrumental music. "If we play French and Italian music in the same concert, it occurs regularly that we all arrive with several instruments. The sound of my Italian harpsichord is direct, present, and even a little explosive, the French one on the other hand has more overtones and sounds a little perfumed. An ideal instrument for the many small trills." (...)

www.pomerium.com

Pomerium. A capella Sacred Music of the Renaissance. nspired by the renowned chapel choirs of the Renaissance, Pomerium revives the golden age of a cappella singing. The ensemble, featuring some of the finest singers in the country and acclaimed for its luminous sound, performs frequently in New York-at such venues as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Frick Collection, and Music Before 1800-as well as across the USA and abroad.

www.psallentes.be

Psallentes. Chant Group. Plainsong in the ages of polyphony.

www.puericantores.org

Pueri Cantores Internacional. Federatio Internationalis Pueri Cantores.

www.rias-kammerchor.de

Rias Kammerchor.

www.sfbach.org

San Francisco Bach Choir. The San Francisco Bach Choir has been an important part of the Bay Area's cultural life for the past six decades. The oldest continuing community choir in the western United States, SFBC played a major role in establishing choral music as a serious art form in Northern California while introducing thousands to the great works of J. S. Bach. The choir has performed most of the major works of choral literature, including J. S. Bach masterpieces such as the Mass in b minor, the St. John Passion, the St. Matthew Passion, the Motets and numerous cantatas. It has also performed many works in the early antiphonal style, as wells as premiering compositions written specifically for the choir by director David Babbitt. The San Francisco Bach Choir draws from its roughly eighty-member roster to perform works using a variety of choir sizes and parts. Our repertoire often draws upon the use of multiple choirs, arranged in antiphonal formation throughout a venue. The chamber chorus Concentus, formed from members of our main choir, performs many pieces requiring a smaller ensemble of singers. (...)

www.thebachchoir.org.uk

The Bach Choir. The Bach Choir is one of the finest independent choirs in the world and I am privileged to be its Musical Director at what is undoubtedly an exciting time in the Choir's development. The Bach Choir is going from strength to strength and I have no doubt that it will continue to maintain its position as a world-class choir. Our core programme of London concerts, enhanced in the coming years by the much-heralded refurbishment of the Royal Festival Hall, will be complemented by visits to some of the major festivals around the country, as well as abroad. The Choir toured to Dresden in December 2005, giving two concerts in the newly restored Frauenkirche, and we are looking at opportunities to perform at other major venues around the world. (...)

www.bach.org

The Bach Choir of Betlehem. The oldest American Bach Choir, The Bach Choir of Bethlehem gave the first complete American performances of "The Mass in B Minor" and "The Christmas Oratorio". Since its founding in 1898, the now-famous Choir has been attracting thousands of national and international visitors every May to its annual Bethlehem Bach Festival. Under Greg Funfgeld's passionate direction, 95 volunteer members sing not only with traditional Bach Choir dedication and enthusiasm, but also with a new level of musicianship and understanding of Bach's choral universe. Today's performances feature the finely-honed vocal ensemble, a fully professional orchestra, and world-renowned soloists. The repertoire includes 133 cantatas, all of the motets, and 15 of Bach's larger works. (...)

www.thetallisscholars.co.uk

The Tallis Scholars. The Tallis Scholars have established themselves as leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music through world-class recordings and concert performances. Their exploration of the depth and variety of this repertoire has reached a world-wide audience. Peter Phillips has worked with the ensemble to create, through good tuning and blend, the purity and clarity of sound which he feels best serves the Renaissance repertoire, allowing every detail of the musical lines to be heard. It is the resulting beauty of sound for which The Tallis Scholars have become renowned.

www.vachorale.com

Virginia Chorale. From its fledgling days with volunteer singers who performed early music to its present status as fully professional performing and educating ensemble, the Chorale has realized an extraordinary journey of artistic achievement. As it continues in its third decade, the Virginia Chorale has accumulated more than 800 pieces of repertoire, engaged hundreds of singers, recorded three compact discs, appeared on local and national radio broadcasts, and mentored and inspired thousands of students and audience members.

www.wienerkammerchor.at

Wiener Kammerchor.

www.wienersingakademie.at

Wiener Singakademie.