Representation
North America
Jon Aaron
Managing Director
Aaron Concert Artists
331 West 57th St. #344
New York 10019
Phone: 212-665-0313
E-mail: jon@aaronconcert.com
Europe
Valérie Lafont
Cinquièmes Cordes
42, rue des Vinaigriers
F-75010 Paris
Phone: +33 (0)1 40 35 71 56
E-mail: valerie@cinquiemescordes.com
Projects
Men’s Voices
In the mid-1980’s, Sequentia began to undertake large-scale projects involving an ensemble of 3-9 men’s voices, directed by Benjamin Bagby, for the performance of chant, music drama, liturgical polyphony and monophonic sacred
repertoires. By the late 1980’s the men’s ensemble of Sequentia was a renowned trans-Atlantic collegium (many of the singers came from Boston) which performed and recorded widely in North America and Europe, sometimes under the name ‘Sons of Thunder’. More recently, the ensemble has toured with programs such as ‘Pilgrims to the Apocalypse’ (2000) and in 2004 joined with the men’s ensemble of the ensemble Dialogos (dir. Katarina Livljanic) for the project ‘Chant Wars’, which toured in Europe, North and South America, and continues to be performed. The Boston men’s ensemble premiered a new program in 2008: ‘Carmina Burana’ (with the Boston Symphony Orchestra), and in 2009 a new ensemble of Sequentia’s men’s voices was founded in Paris (see Programs: ‘Voices from the Island Sanctuary’).
Past and present concert programs
Voices from the Island Sanctuary (2009-2010)
The Original ‘Carmina Burana’ (2008)
Chant Wars (with Dialogos, 2004-2010)
The New Voices of Notre Dame de Paris (2002)
Pilgrims to the Apocalypse (2000)
Liber Sancti Jacobi – Codex Calixtinus (1999)
Hildegard von Bingen Project (multiple programs, 1995-99)
Christmas Music from Aquitanian Cloisters (1996)
Singing Stones (1987-88)
Frauenlob (1987-1990)
Music-drama (multiple projects,1985-92)
Sequentia recordings featuring the men’s vocal ensemble
- Chant Wars
The Carolingian ‘Globalization’ of Medieval Liturgical Chant
A collaboration with the ensemble Dialogos, directed by Katarina Livljanic - Frauenlob (Heinrich von Meissen, ca. 1260-1318)
The Celestial Woman / Frauenlobs Leich, oder der Guldin Fluegel, zu latin: Cantica Canticorum - Hildegard von Bingen: Saints
- O Hildegard von Bingen: Jerusalem
- Aquitania
Christmas Music from Aquitanian Monasteries (12th c.) - Shining Light
Christmas Music from Aquitanian Monasteries (12th c.) - Visions from the Book
Vocal music inspired by Bible stories (12-14th c.) - Bordesholmer Marienklage (ca. 1475)
- Vox Iberica I: Sons of Thunder / Donnersöhne
Music for St. James the Apostle (12th century) - Vox Iberica II: Codex Las Huelgas
Music from the Royal Convent Las Huelgas de Burgos (13th -14th centuries) - Vox Iberica III: El Sabio
Songs for King Alfonso X of Castile and Léon (1221-1284) - Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361)
Motets and Chansons - Philippe le Chancelier (ca. 1165-1236)
Conductus, Lai, Sequence, Rondellus / ‘School of Notre Dame’
Upcoming Concerts
13 April 2010
Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany
The Rheingold Curse
19 June 2010
Montalbâne Festival, Germany
Fragments for the End of Time
24 September 2010
Cité de la Musique, Paris
The Rheingold Curse
News
Visions of Paradise
In September 2009 a new film about the life of Hildegard von Bingen, directed by Margarethe von Trotta and starring Barbara Sukowa, was released in Germany. More
Interview with Benjamin Bagby
WNYC, New York Public Radio, aired an interview with the ‘Beowulf’ performer, B. Bagby. Listen to the show
Beowulf on DVD
Benjamin Bagby’s legendary performance of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf (part I) recorded live in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Visit the Beowulf website