
Stile Antico
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Stile Antico is firmly established as one of the world's most accomplished and innovative vocal ensembles. Working without a conductor, its twelve members have thrilled audiences on four continents with their fresh, vibrant, and moving performances of Renaissance polyphony. Follow the blog and learn more about the music world, latest music performances, feature stories, artist profiles,..
Stile Antico
1w ago
Stile Antico sings this complex yet elegantly polished music with the group’s usual combination of lushness and focus, stillness and energy, bringing expression and nuance to what can sometimes slip into coolly uniform gorgeousness.  ..read more
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1M ago
No matter how elaborate the counterpoint, there are no hesitations, no rough edges ..read more
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2M ago
Warmth, emotion and a metrical flexibility all the more striking for being achieved without a conductor. The singers seem telepathically linked ..read more
Stile Antico
6M ago
We're delighted to announce that the recipient of our Ensemble Development Bursary 2024-26 is the Bruegel Consort ..read more
Stile Antico
11M ago
Stile Antico’s Wigmore performance of ‘A Divine Hope’ was highly praised by MusicOMH.com’s reviewer, who wrote that “All the items were approached withe rigorously applied musical intelligence that this repertoire needs… an internalised understanding of the role of each voice line in fashioning the texture; an innate feel for the dynamic shape of phrases; an immersive familiarity with the text, and how its meaning can be brought out through volume, speed, attack and timbre.”
The full review can be read on the MusicOMH site ..read more
Stile Antico
1y ago
We are delighted to announce the appointment of baritone Gareth Thomas to join Stile Antico!
Gareth was a choral scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge, studying Music. Alongside performing regularly with groups such as the BBC Singers and Tenebrae, he is a member of the choir of HM Chapel Royal Tower of London. He is also an experienced editor of Renaissance polyphony, and the group has already used a number of his wonderful editions. For more information, visit www.gareththomasmusic.co.uk.
Gareth says “I am utterly delighted to be joining Stile Antico. Early Music has long been my passion – bot ..read more
Stile Antico
1y ago
Ahead of Stile Antico’s forthcoming concerts and workshops in Newcastle and Leeds, Classical Music magazine has published a feature about our Byrd-related outreach work!
To read the feature, please click here.
Details of all our forthcoming concerts and workshops are available on our Events pagse ..read more
Stile Antico
1y ago
The Stile Antico Foundation is seeking a Youth Trustee for a year’s term intended to commence in May 2024.
The Foundation is committed to providing young people with engaging opportunities to enhance and broaden their skills. This is an excellent chance for a young professional or student to offer their own contributions and perspective to the Foundations’ operations whilst also gaining invaluable experience of charity governance within the music sector.
No prior trustee experience is required, and applicants should be aged between 20 and 28 years old as of May 2024. Exceptional candidat ..read more
Stile Antico
1y ago
In the closing years of Elizabeth I’s reign, Byrd retreated to the village of Stondon Massey in Essex, where he continued to write for the Anglican church but, as a committed Catholic, also composed music for private, or clandestine, performances by the local Catholic gentry. Among his Catholic masterpieces are two masses. Stile Antico takes the Mass for Four Voices as the foundation for this programme and threads shorter pieces between the movements. Although this disturbs concentration on the Mass, it allows for heightened contrasts, for example with the beautiful, late radiance of Retire my ..read more