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Associate artists
Lisete da Silva – Baroque flute & recorders
Ricardo Barros – Historical keyboards & Baroque dance
Nicholas Stringfellow – Baroque cello & viola-da-gamba
Formed in 1993, Spirituoso have been acclaimed as vigorous, innovative, passionate, inspiring
and 'spirituous' in their numerous appearances in the UK, Europe and South America. Spirituoso
presents vivid and uplifting performances where the audiences' passions are stirred and moved.
An impeccable technique and deep historical knowledge are allied to the utter expression of subtle
emotions, resulting in a remarkable journey through the centuries embracing the Renaissance,
Baroque & Pre-Classical periods.
Spirituoso was appointed Ensemble-in-Residence at the Handel House Museum in 2009, a
position that was renewed in 2010. As such, they thrived as an ensemble by exploring a wide
range of repertoire, including works by lesser known composers. They also promoted new
compositions, working with contemporary composers, premièring ten new works specially
composed for them. They produced many educational programmes in partnership with Handel
House Museum and Wigmore Hall. Spirituoso now embarks in a new partnership as an Associate
Ensemble St George's Bloomsbury, where they shall extend their concert programming and
educational activities including the organisation of summer courses and workshops.
Amongst many TV and radio broadcastings, Spirituoso was featured in a documentary for
Deutsche-Welle television, on the occasion of Handel's 300th anniversary celebrations in 2009
(http://www.spirituoso.co.uk/film.php). Apart from their regular busy schedule of concerts at
Handel House, recent engagements include a concert at St Cecilia's Hall during the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe (Aug 2009), a concert during Dublin's Handel Festival (April 2009), concert in
Tomar (Portugal) as guest ensemble in the Academia de Musica Antiga (Aug 2009), an
educational project at the Wigmore Hall, featuring their programme Baroque Idol (March 2010),
a joint programme with Mercurius celebrating Campra at St James's Piccadilly (April 2010) and
the dramatised programme Dangerous Liaisons – Forbidden Love with guests Mary Collins
(dance) and Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord) at St George's Bloomsbury (Nov 2011).
Future engagements include concerts throughout 2011 at St George's Bloomsbury, a tour of China
and Europe in 2012 with 'Dangerous Liaisons – Forbidden Love', release of their début CD, and
appearance as featured artists, performing and teaching masterclasses at the II International
Early Music Symposium in São Paulo-Brazil (June 2011).
www.spirituoso.co.uk
admin@spirituoso.co.uk
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Ooonagh Lee
Roselyn Maynard
Gail Macleod
Kathryn Corrigan
Emily Bloom
Consortium5 formed in 2005 when its founding members were students at the Royal Academy
of Music. They have since established themselves as one of the foremost recorder consorts of their
generation, and an ensemble of unique appeal to a wide range of audiences. Founded out of a
shared love of consort music and recorders, Consortium have performed in Europe and the UK at
major festivals and concert series.
In 2010 they recorded their debut album on the Nonclassical Label, voted among the top ten best
classical albums of the year by Chicago Time Out. Working with composers has formed a central
part of Consortium5's activity over the past four years, and this album features works
commissioned especially for and by the group. A recent review from the influential blog
Sequenza21 concludes that the album ‘suggests a new frontier for chamber ensembles’.
Winners of numerous prizes and awards, Consortium5 made their Purcell Room debut in 2009 as
part of the Park Lane Group Young Artists Series. In 2007-2009 they were Joan Greenfield Junior
Fellows at Trinity College of Music and in 2006 they were awarded the Deutsche Bank Pyramid
Award for performance, a prize that allowed them to invest in a set of 10 matching consort
instruments.
Equally committed to performance on the concert platform and in the community, Consortium5
spent several years resident on the Live Music Now scheme, and have performed numerous
concerts for London based music services, reaching over 7000 children, many of whom had never
attended a professional music concert before.
Since forming, Consortium5 have combined historically informed and contemporary performance
to great effect in both concerts and educational work. Consortium5 enjoy working closely with
composers throughout the composition process and it has been their great delight to discover the
fascination these instruments hold for composers and the richness and variety with which their
language speaks through the consort. Consortium5 are particularly interested in the bridges that
these compositions build; new consorts from the archaic consort form, new works for ancient
instruments, a contemporary dimension to the recorder that concentrates without compromise on
both its simplicity and its myriad complexities.
www.consortium5.com
Associate artists
Lisete da Silva – Baroque flute & recorders
Ricardo Barros – Historical keyboards & Baroque dance
Nicholas Stringfellow – Baroque cello & viola-da-gamba
Formed in 1993, Spirituoso have been acclaimed as vigorous, innovative, passionate, inspiring
and 'spirituous' in their numerous appearances in the UK, Europe and South America. Spirituoso
presents vivid and uplifting performances where the audiences' passions are stirred and moved.
An impeccable technique and deep historical knowledge are allied to the utter expression of subtle
emotions, resulting in a remarkable journey through the centuries embracing the Renaissance,
Baroque & Pre-Classical periods.
Spirituoso was appointed Ensemble-in-Residence at the Handel House Museum in 2009, a
position that was renewed in 2010. As such, they thrived as an ensemble by exploring a wide
range of repertoire, including works by lesser known composers. They also promoted new
compositions, working with contemporary composers, premièring ten new works specially
composed for them. They produced many educational programmes in partnership with Handel
House Museum and Wigmore Hall. Spirituoso now embarks in a new partnership as an Associate
Ensemble St George's Bloomsbury, where they shall extend their concert programming and
educational activities including the organisation of summer courses and workshops.
Amongst many TV and radio broadcastings, Spirituoso was featured in a documentary for
Deutsche-Welle television, on the occasion of Handel's 300th anniversary celebrations in 2009
(http://www.spirituoso.co.uk/film.php). Apart from their regular busy schedule of concerts at
Handel House, recent engagements include a concert at St Cecilia's Hall during the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe (Aug 2009), a concert during Dublin's Handel Festival (April 2009), concert in
Tomar (Portugal) as guest ensemble in the Academia de Musica Antiga (Aug 2009), an
educational project at the Wigmore Hall, featuring their programme Baroque Idol (March 2010),
a joint programme with Mercurius celebrating Campra at St James's Piccadilly (April 2010) and
the dramatised programme Dangerous Liaisons – Forbidden Love with guests Mary Collins
(dance) and Erik Dippenaar (harpsichord) at St George's Bloomsbury (Nov 2011).
Future engagements include concerts throughout 2011 at St George's Bloomsbury, a tour of China
and Europe in 2012 with 'Dangerous Liaisons – Forbidden Love', release of their début CD, and
appearance as featured artists, performing and teaching masterclasses at the II International
Early Music Symposium in São Paulo-Brazil (June 2011).
www.spirituoso.co.uk
admin@spirituoso.co.uk
_______________________________________________________________
Ooonagh Lee
Roselyn Maynard
Gail Macleod
Kathryn Corrigan
Emily Bloom
Consortium5 formed in 2005 when its founding members were students at the Royal Academy
of Music. They have since established themselves as one of the foremost recorder consorts of their
generation, and an ensemble of unique appeal to a wide range of audiences. Founded out of a
shared love of consort music and recorders, Consortium have performed in Europe and the UK at
major festivals and concert series.
In 2010 they recorded their debut album on the Nonclassical Label, voted among the top ten best
classical albums of the year by Chicago Time Out. Working with composers has formed a central
part of Consortium5's activity over the past four years, and this album features works
commissioned especially for and by the group. A recent review from the influential blog
Sequenza21 concludes that the album ‘suggests a new frontier for chamber ensembles’.
Winners of numerous prizes and awards, Consortium5 made their Purcell Room debut in 2009 as
part of the Park Lane Group Young Artists Series. In 2007-2009 they were Joan Greenfield Junior
Fellows at Trinity College of Music and in 2006 they were awarded the Deutsche Bank Pyramid
Award for performance, a prize that allowed them to invest in a set of 10 matching consort
instruments.
Equally committed to performance on the concert platform and in the community, Consortium5
spent several years resident on the Live Music Now scheme, and have performed numerous
concerts for London based music services, reaching over 7000 children, many of whom had never
attended a professional music concert before.
Since forming, Consortium5 have combined historically informed and contemporary performance
to great effect in both concerts and educational work. Consortium5 enjoy working closely with
composers throughout the composition process and it has been their great delight to discover the
fascination these instruments hold for composers and the richness and variety with which their
language speaks through the consort. Consortium5 are particularly interested in the bridges that
these compositions build; new consorts from the archaic consort form, new works for ancient
instruments, a contemporary dimension to the recorder that concentrates without compromise on
both its simplicity and its myriad complexities.
www.consortium5.com