Alamire

Alamire consort was founded in 2005 by David Skinner in order to explore and promote the compositional processes behind the great masterworks, and lesser-known works, of the late medieval and early modern periods. Recent projects include a television documentary on the Office of St David, and an exploration of the music of Josquin Desprez within the medium of modern ‘sound art’. They are currently embarked on a series of projects dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the coronation of Henry VIII, including concerts in the UK and abroad and providing the music consultancy and the soundtrack for a television documentary series presented by David Starkey.

David Skinner is known primarily for his combined role as a researcher and performer of early music, and is Fellow, Tutor, and Osborn Director of Music at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and an affiliated lecturer in the faculty of music. He teaches historical and practical topics from the medieval and Renaissance periods. From 1997 to 2001 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy at Christ Church, Oxford (where he was a Choral Scholar from 1989 to 1994), and was the Lecturer in Music at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 2001 to 2006. At Cambridge he conducts the Choir of Sidney Sussex College, with whom he has toured and made professional recordings (their CD of Thomas Tomkins on the Obisidian label, of which he is artistic director, received Gramophone Editor’s Choice and CD of the Month in February 2008). He has published widely on music and musicians of early Tudor England, and his most recent projects include the collected works of Nicholas Ludford (Early English Church Music, 2003 & 2005) and The Arundel Choirbook (Duke of Norfolk: Roxburghe Club, 2003). He is currently editing the Latin church music of John Sheppard for publication in 2009, and co-authoring a book on Foundations of the English Choral Tradition.

Performances: Concert Session 5

Gold Track Performance: Saturday, March 7, 1:00pm-1:30pm

Scarlet Track Performance: Saturday, March 7, 10:30am-11:00am

Concert Ticket Information:

Convention Registrants: admission with convention badge

Single Tickets available for purchase with this form (PDF)

Concert Program Literature:
Hec est preclarum
Anonymous (from a choirbook gifted to Henry VIII in 1516)

Suscipe, quaeso Domine
Thomas Tallis (c.1500-1585)

Attolite portas
William Byrd (c.1535/41-1623) 

In ieiunio et fletu
Thomas Tallis

Diliges Dominum
William Byrd