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The Newberry Consort

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Active from
  
1986

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Albums
  
Music for a medieval banquet

Record labels
  
Harmonia Mundi, Harmonia Mundi France

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Profiles

The Newberry Consort is an early music ensemble from Chicago, Illinois. It was established in 1986 and is affiliated with the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies. The Consort is also in residence at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. Reviewer Alan Artner praised a 2014 performance of the Consort as "...spiritedly played and sung... early music at its committed best."

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The group performs music from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods featuring a roster of local and international musicians. The Consort has recorded several albums for the Harmonia Mundi USA label.

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Co-Directors

  • David Douglass, early violins
  • Ellen Hargis, soprano
  • Frequent and Recent Collaborators

  • Tom Zajac, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist
  • David Schrader, harpsichord
  • Charles Metz, harpsichord
  • Rachel Barton Pine, violin and rebec
  • Bruce Dickey, cornetto
  • Jeremy Ward, bass violin
  • Brandi Berry, violin and viola
  • Steven Player, vocalist and dancer
  • Songs

    Cominciamento di gioiaMusic for a medieval banquet · 1993
    Sit FastA Candle in the Dark - Elizabethan Songs & Consort Music · 2006
    La badessaMusic for a medieval banquet · 1993

    References

    The Newberry Consort Wikipedia