Peter Phillips
Peter
Phillips has made an impressive if unusual reputation for himself in
dedicating his life's work to the research and performance of
Renaissance sacred music. Having won a scholarship to Oxford in
1972, Peter Phillips studied Renaissance music with David Wulstan
and Denis Arnold, and gained experience in conducting small vocal
ensembles, already experimenting with the rarer parts of the
repertoire. Besides
his work with The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips has for many years
contributed a regular column (as well as a cricket column) to The
Spectator. In 1995 he became the Advisory Editor of The Musical
Times, the oldest continuously published music journal in Europe.
His first book English Sacred Music 1549 - 1649, a unique and
encyclopaedic account of the history of English-texted sacred music
written during the golden period between the Reformation and the
Commonwealth, has been published by Gimell. His interest in the
Renaissance extends beyond the music to fine art and he is currently
working on an account of the cultural background of the period. He
continues to work with groups around the world. In 1997 he visited
Japan as the adjudicator of a choral festival in Tokyo and has also
worked in Italy and the USA with groups specialising in the
polyphonic repertoire.
Peter
Phillips has made numerous television and radio broadcasts. Besides
those featuring The Tallis Scholars (which include live broadcasts
from the 1988 Proms. the Aldeburgh Festival, the Bath Festival and
the Cheltenham Festival), he has appeared several times on Radio 3's
Music Weekly and on the BBC World Service, on Kaleidoscope (Radio
4), on Today (Radio 4) and on European, Canadian and North American
radio. In December 1990 Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars and
Gimell Records were the subject of a major South Bank Show
television documentary in which the viewer is taken on a personal
odyssey through the sacred Renaissance repertoire.
Ghislaine Morgan
Ghislaine Morgan
is in
much demand as a singer, singing teacher, adjudicator and lecturer.
She has performed throughout Europe, India, Japan and the USA and
has recorded for the Arte Nova, Decca, EMI, Gimell, Naxos, Richmond,
and Regent labels. Originally a pianist and violinist, she went on
to read music at Oxford where she majored in vocal performance.
There followed four years as a classroom teacher, before training as
a singer at the Royal College of Music, where she was awarded the
Sacher Scholarship. "An exquisite soprano" ..... the recital was
"lifted into ecstasy" (Musical Times). Ghislaine has worked
regularly with many reknowned groups such as The Monteverdi Choir,
The Tallis Scholars, The Sixteen, The King's Consort, and The
Richard Hickox Singers amongst others. Opera work includes chorus
work with the The Aix-en Provence Festival Opera, The Bath Festival
Opera and Opera de Lyon. She sang for 17 years with the choir of St.
Brides Church, Fleet Street, her recording of Mozart's Laudate
Dominum receiving special mention in the Gramophone. Her career has
encompassed a wide range of musical styles. Solo engagements include
a concert tour of South Africa singing Das Knaben Wunderhorn;
recording the title role of Handel's Deborah for German radio;
Finzi's Dies Natalis; Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne; and work
for the Mathieson Music School, Calcutta, 2nd International
Festival, Tel Aviv Festival for Vocal music, Sligo Festival of
Baroque Music and Ballet Du Nord. Ghislaine's educational work is
inspired by a passion for encouraging others to be expressive with
confidence, and a desire to demystify vocal technique so that it can
be both fun and simple to learn. She has a private practice in
London and also teaches at Cambridge University and Dulwich College,
from where she trains trebles for English National Opera,
Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Royal Opera House. She has
directed workshops in Britain, Holland, Iceland, India, Italy,
Portugal and Spain and is on the faculty of the National Youth
Choirs of Great Britain and the Rimini International Choral
Workshop. Ghislaine is the Founder-Director of the Sintra
International Singing and Choral Conducting Course.
Colin
Mawby
Colin Mawby has been involved with music all his life. Born
in 1936, he spent his formative years living and breathing church
music at Westminster Cathedral Choir School in London. His talents
were recognised by the Master of Music, George Malcolm, and from the
age of 12 he assisted him with his huge load of fifteen choral
services a week by playing the organ. Colin spent three years at the
RCM studying with Gordon Jacob. During this time he also learnt a
lot studying outside the College with Adrian Boult and working with
Malcolm Sargent. After this he became first Assistant, and then
Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral. In his years there he
brought the Cathedral Choir to new prominence, with many appearances
on the BBC as well as commercial recordings. The Choir was renowned
for its clear - instantly recognisable - sound, and thrilling
performance. Wishing to broaden his repertoire, Colin Mawby moved to
Ireland to be Choral Director at Radio Telefis Eireann (RTE). He was
later appointed Artistic Director of Ireland's National Chamber
Choir, and is now their Artistic Director Emeritus. He has worked
with many other music groups, notably the London Mozart Players, the
Wren Orchestra, Pro Cantione Antiqua, the Belgian Radio Choir and
the BBC Singers, and has performed before the Queen of England at
St.Paul's Cathedral, President John F. Kennedy at Westminster
Cathedral, and no less than two Popes at St.Peter's Basilica in
Rome. Colin Mawby has written extensively for choirs, often
providing music for special occasions or at short notice. His
Haec dies, for example, was written and rehearsed on a train
journey across Europe, prior to its prizewinning perfomance in
Italy! He has written twenty-four masses, five song cycles, a very
large number of settings for choir, two children's operas and a
children's Christmas cantata. A good few of these pieces started
life as commissions, from Westminster Cathedral in London, Liverpool
Cathedral, RTE Ireland, The Royal School of Church Music in England,
The Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City, USA, and Grace
Church, New York, among others. His famous Alleluia which is
sung all over the world was commissioned by the European Federation
of Pueri Cantores. Just recently Colin wrote a piece for the Requiem
of Cardinal Basil Hume of Westminster, and a Fanfare for the opening
of the Helix Concert Hall at Dublin City University. And he won Top
Honors in the 2002 Waging Peace Through Singing competition
in Oregon, USA for his Prayer of Forgiveness. Colin Mawby has
also worked with the written and spoken word - on BBC Radio 3, for
Hans Keller and Basil Lam, and the UK-based newspapers and journals
The Guardian, The Times, The Tablet, and The Listener. An entire
chapter of the important British Organ Music of the Twentieth
Century: The Composers, Their Music, and Musical Style by Peter
Hardwick is devoted to Colin's organ music. His music is published
by Kevin Mayhew, Oregon Catholic Press, Carus-Verlag, the Gregorian
Institute of America, EurArte, the Royal School of Church Music,
Edizioni Carrara, Faber Music, Chappell, and Edition Ferrimontana.
CDs of his music have been released by Warner Classics, EMI, Teldec,
Hyperion, Oregon Catholic Press, Black Box, and Kevin Mayhew. Colin
Mawby's Ave Maria was recently recorded by The Celtic Tenors
on their CD So Strong; his Ave verum can be found on
the Teldec CD Ave Maria alongside Placido Domingo, Sarah
Brightman, Herbert von Karajan, Jose Carreras and Leonard Bernstein;
and Psalm 23 has become enormously popular since it was
chosen by Charlotte Church for her bestselling CD Voice of an
Angel. To hear some of Colin Mawby's music, you'll find his
Modern Medieval Carol and other Christmas Carols here at Oregon
Catholic Press, and Alleluia, Christus resurrexit at
www.Musicanet.Org where it was chosen as Musica International's
Favourite Piece of the Month for November 2002.
Andrea Angelini
Born in Bologna, Italy, Andrea Angelini began his piano
studies as a child, at the Rimini Lettimi School. He later earned a
Bachelor of Music at Ferrara's Frescobaldi Conservatory.
Particularly interested in piano pedagogy, he studied with Rita
Ferri and Alexander Lonquich. After earning a Master in Choral
Conducting in 1992, he studied music therapy with Professor
Cremaschi of Milan University. His interests led him to the choral
field, and he earned a Bachelor studying Liturgical Music at Modena
and at the International Art Academy in Rome with Fulvio Angius. He
also studied organ at Pesaro's Conservatory of Music. Since 1988,
Andrea Angelini has conducted many concerts with the choir Carla
Amori, in Italy and abroad. He has also worked with the
Cattolica City Choir and the Cesena Lyric Choir. In 1996
he was named Director of the Rimini Cathedral Choir, Alessandro
Grandi. He led this choir in several performances, including in
important venues such as St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome - where he was
able to meet Pope Woytila - and in Milan’s Cathedral. Mr. Angelini
is the Artistic Director of the International Festival Voices
from America and the Sound of the Organ held annually in Rimini
each spring. He is also the Artistic Director and member of the Jury
of the international organ competition, Marcello Galanti,
which occurs in both Italy and in the US, at the University of
Kutztown (PA). He was also member of the Jury of the International
Choir Competition Grand Prix Slovakia, the Malta Choir
Festival, of Cantonigros Choir Competition, Jersey
Choir Competition, 21 CCAD Malaysia Choir Competition and of
The Prague Competition for Blind Musicians. He frequently leads
choral workshops in Italy and abroad. He is the artistic director
and instructor at the Rimini International Choral Workshop,
where he teaches with Peter Phillips of the Tallis Scholars. He
taught music theory, music history and piano at the State School of
Music of the Republic of San Marino. His professional memberships
include the Artistic Committee of AERCO (Regional Association of
Choirs), FENIARCO (National Italian Federation of Regional Choral
Associations), ABCD (British Association of Choral Directors) and
RCO (The Royal College of Organists). He is a regular reviewer for
the press and a qualified elementary and secondary school teacher.
He has written numerous transcriptions for choirs and chamber
ensembles, including a monumental transcription of Antonio Vivaldi's
Gloria in D RV589, for choir, soloists, and organ (with the organ
part being quite suited to the instrument). His transcription of
Faure's Requiem is published by Gelber Hund Verlag of Berlin,
who are also publishers of a book of repertoire for organ and
violin, edited by Mr. Angelini. For the American CanticaNOVA
Publication, he has prepared transcriptions of important Renaissance
Anthems. He also has expertise in computer science and is proficient
with Windows, Word, Corel Draw, Encore, Finale, etc… Andrea is
happily married to Annamaria, and currently lives in Rimini, Italy.
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