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CCM welcomes celebrated vocal ensemble Gallicantus for residency
The weeklong residency includes public lectures and workshops, as well as two exciting performances
Story by CCM Graduate Assistant Lucy Evans
The celebrated vocal ensemble Gallicantus will visit the UC College-Conservatory of Music from March 2-6 for a professional choral singing residency with CCM's Choral Studies program. Under the direction of Gabriel Crouch, Gallicantus specializes in early and renaissance music.
The group's CCM residency includes public lectures and workshops on topics ranging from the music of William Byrd to practical advice on building a career in music. Bookending the residency are two public concerts at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains in downtown Cincinnati.
Everything Gallicantus touches seems to turn to gold.
Adrian Horsewood, Early Music Today
Early music group Gallicantus. Photo/provided
The public portion of the residency opens with an off-campus concert entitled “The Word Unspoken" at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 3. Presented at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains, this ticketed performance features Gallicantus collaborating with the CCM Professional Choral Singing Fellows on a program of music from 16th-century England, including William Byrd and Thomas Tallis. Tickets can be purchased online through the St. Peter in Chains website.
The residency then launches into a series of on-campus lectures and workshops from March 4-6, all of which are free and open to the public. On-campus events take place in rooms 100 and 300 of the Dieterle Vocal Arts Center, located in the CCM Village.
Finally, CCM Chamber Choir and CCM Chorale return to the Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains to give a free concert at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 6. The concert, titled “In Praise of Harmony,” features the music of Zanaida Stewart Robles, Regar, Bruckner and Rheinberger. Gabriel Crouch, Gallicantus’s founder, conducts.
See the residency schedule below for additional information.
About Gallicantus
Literally meaning "rooster song" or "cock crow," Gallicantus was a name used in monastic antiquity for the office held just before dawn, which celebrated the renewal of life and offered a sense of gratitude and optimism for the coming day. The membership of the group shares a wealth of experience in consort singing, and is bound by a belief in the rhetorical power of great Renaissance music.
Under the direction of Gabriel Crouch, Gallicantus creates performances and recordings that explore narratives and draw out unifying themes within their apparently diverse repertoire. Gallicantus has performed in many significant venues and festivals in the UK (Wigmore Hall, Spitalfields Festival, York Early Music Festival, Temple Winter Music Festival), as well as Germany, Austria (Trigonale Festival), Poland (Wroclaw Festival), Italy, and the low countries (Utrecht Early Music Festival). In the USA the group holds regular residencies at Princeton and Yale Universities, and in 2017 made its Carnegie Hall debut in New York. Adrian Horsewood of Early Music Today has declared, "Everything Gallicantus touches seems to turn to gold." Learn more about the group on their website.
Residency Schedule of Public Events
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Lucy Evans
CCM Graduate Assistant, Marketing + Communications
Lucy Evans is an artist diploma student studying Opera-Vocal Performance at CCM. She is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, and was recently an Apprentice Artist with the Santa Fe Opera.
Featured image at the top: A portrait of the vocal ensemble Gallicantus. Photo/provided
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