2006 marks the Aegean Center for the Fine Art’s 40th year on Paros and this occasion is being celebrated throughout the month in a “Festival of Thanks” with a series of very special a cappella musical events.
John Pack, Director of the Center, has chosen the universal gift of music as a way of giving thanks to Paros, and to Greece, for providing what he calls “such a magnificent and inspiring home” for their programme since 1966. He hopes that this festival will be the first of an annual event to take place every June on Paros.
The events, all of which will be held at the Ekatontapyliani (Church of a Hundred Doors) are:
The Tallis Scholars
11 June at 8pm
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.
Director 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. The Boston Globe said of them in 1998: “Anyone familiar with Renaissance music knows that this group has attained superstardom among its ilk.”
Renowned for their unearthly vocal blend and virtuosic ensemble singing, the four women of the acclaimed vocal quartet Anonymous 4 (Marsha Genensky, Susan Hellauer, Jacqueline Horner and Johanna Maria Rose) combine musical, literary and historical scholarship with contemporary performance intuition as they create ingeniously designed programmes, interweaving music with poetry and narrative.
Anonymous 4 has performed in major venues and festivals throughout North America, Europe and the Far East. The ensemble has appeared on numerous radio and television programmes. Anonymous 4’s award-winning recordings have attained unprecedented popularity, rising to the top of Billboard’s classical chart, and selling almost 1.5 million copies worldwide.
Founded in Oslo in 1997, Trio Mediaeval (Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth and Torunn Ostrem Ossum) has developed three distinct strands of repertoire: polyphonic medieval music from England and France, contemporary works and Norwegian medieval ballads and songs.
The ensemble has given concerts and radio broadcasts throughout Europe, in the USA and Canada. They released their first CD “Words of the Angel” in October 2001 which immediately went to The Billboard Top 10 Bestsellers list. In January 2004 the trio released its second CD “Soir dit-elle” which was also on the Billboard Top 10 list for weeks and a third CD “Stella Maris” has just been released.
They have collaborated with many composers from all around the globe and have two tours of the USA scheduled for this year as well as a tour of Europe to perform in Gran Canaria, the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Estonia.
For further information about The Aegean Center for the Fine Arts, see http://www.aegeancenter.org or contact John on tel: 22840-23287, fax: 22840-28120.
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