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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.

Fulvio Rampi

Fulvio Rampi was born in Cremona in 1959 where he has been Master of Music in the cathedral from 1998 to 2010 and is also Principle Organist in the Church Of St Abbondio. He received his diploma in organ and organ composition from Brescia Conservatoire. He also obtained Masters and Doctorial degrees in Sacred Music and Gregorian Chant from the Pontifical Institute for Sacred Music in Milan as a pupil of Luigi Agustoni. He succeeded M^o Agustoni as professor of Gregorian Chant at the same institute and has many publications to credit. He is director of the specialist journal “Note gregoriane” first issued in 1993. In 2004 he produced a volume of original compositions published by “Libreria Editrice Vaticana”. He has been invited to give many conferences and courses on Gregorian Chant in Italy and abroad. He was president of the Italian section of the International association of Gregorian Chant from 1991 to 1995 until which same year he was lecturer on international courses organised at Cremona by this same association. His concert career is as organ soloist and as a polyphonic choral conductor. In 1986 he founded the “Cantori Gregoriani” choir, a professional male voice ensemble of which he is the regular conductor and with whom he maintains a busy recording schedule for eminent national and international recording companies (Rusty Records, PDU-EMI, JVC Giappone, Paoline, Sarx Records, ARCANA). The group maintains a busy concert schedule in Italy and abroad (Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Slovenia, Lebanon, Poland, Brazil, Russia, Japan), participating in numerous international festivals and events. With this same group he has recorded for Swiss Radio - Suisse Romande, Austrian Television - ORF, Japanese Television - NHK and German Radio – WDR. He holds the chair in Pre-Polyphony at the Turin G. Verdi Conservatoire.

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 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. He is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the professional group Musica Ficta Vocal Ensemble www.ensemble.musicaficta.org that frequently performs in important Festivals in Italy and abroad. For many years, Andrea Angelini has conducted concerts with the choir Carla Amori, in Italy and abroad. He has also worked with the Cattolica City Choir and the Cesena Lyric Choir. 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 personally meet Pope John Paul II - and in Milan’s Cathedral. He has also conducted the Lithuanian Jauna Muzika Choir, the Latvian Ave Sol and the Tudor Consort from New Zealand. 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. Moreover he has been member of the Jury of two important Organ Competitions in Moscow, the Kitka Organ Competition and the Tariverdev Organ Competition. He has been member of the Jury at many International Choir’s Competitions. He frequently leads choral workshops in Italy and abroad. He is the artistic director and one of the tutors at the Rimini International Choral Workshop, where he teaches with Peter Phillips of the Tallis Scholars, www.musicaficta.org/welcome.html. Mr. Angelini is also the artistic director of the Rimini International Choral Competition, www.riminichoral.it. 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. He is the Chief Editor of FARCORO, the Choral Magazine of the Regional Choir Association and of the International Choral Bulletin (ICB), the membership magazine of the IFCM (International Federation for Choral Music). He has written numerous transcriptions and arrangements 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 Motets.