Renaissance Choir

GOTHIC VOICES

Catherine King, mezzo soprano

Steven Harrold, tenor

Julian Podger, tenor

Simon Whiteley, baritone

For more than 45 years Gothic Voices has been world-renowned for the excellence, refinement and spirituality of its performances of medieval music. Originally founded in 1980 by the scholar and musician Christopher Page, Gothic Voices has gone on to record about 30 CDs for the Hyperion and AvI labels, three of which won the coveted Gramophone Magazine Early Music Award. Its first recording “A Feather on the Breath of God – Hymns and Sequences by Abbess Hildegard of Bingen” still remains one of the best-selling recordings of pre-classical music ever made and its recent recordings, “The Unknown Lover” and “A Laurel for Landini”, have continued to attract unanimous critical acclaim.

In the UK they have performed at the Aldeburgh and Chester Festivals, the York and Birmingham Early Music Festivals and at the International Festivals of Edinburgh and Cheltenham. They have toured widely in Europe, appearing at the Flanders, Utrecht, Worms, Stuttgart, and Cologne Early Music Festivals and the Vestfold Festival in Norway. They have also appeared in Israel and in the Americas.

Gothic Voices also enjoy performing contemporary music, particularly pieces with medieval associations. Many of today’s composers are influenced by the medieval repertoire and its often experimental nature and the group plans to give a renewed emphasis to the combination of old and new alongside its more traditional programs. Gothic Voices is committed to bringing medieval music into the mainstream. Their imaginative programs aim to use their voices in varying combinations to produce performances of great beauty and thereby to continue to win the appreciation of audiences all over the world.