Faculty
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Philip Cave, tenor and Director
A
chorister from the age of seven, Philip Cave has
been involved with choral music all his life. He
studied music at Oxford University with Simon
Preston and was a Choral Scholar and lay-clerk at
Christ Church Cathedral. He directed the College
Choir, and sang with the University’s premier
chamber choir, the Schola Cantorum, and with the
seminal early music ensemble, the Clerkes of
Oxenford.
He was a member of the Tallis Scholars with whom he
gave over 400 performances, and for many years a
lay-clerk in New College Choir, directed by Edward
Higginbottom. He has performed, toured and recorded
with most of the UK’s leading ensembles, including
the Hilliard Ensemble, The Sixteen, the Choir of the
English Consort, the King's Consort, the Schütz
Choir of London and the Cardinall's Musick. Since
moving to Washington, he has sung with the Folger
Consort, Washington Bach Consort, and the National
Gallery of Art Vocal Ensemble. As a soloist, he has
performed under many celebrated conductors including
Leonard Bernstein, and at venues including the
Beethovenhalle in Bonn and the Sydney Opera House.
He has performed frequently at the BBC Promenade
Concerts in London, and has shared the concert
platform with many distinguished musicians,
including Sir Peter Pears, Sting and Sir Paul
McCartney.
Philip is founder and conductor of the vocal
ensemble Magnificat, which specializes in the
restoration and performance of neglected masterworks
of the baroque and renaissance periods. The ensemble
has toured and performed in England, Spain, Greece
and the United States. Magnificat have released ten
CD recordings, which have attracted much critical
acclaim:
“The performances are guaranteed to refresh even
the most jaded palate." (Early Music Review)
"A flawlessly blended ensemble that can meet any
technical challenge." (American Record Guide)
"Cave and his small chorus spun sustained wonders of
supple phrasing and clean textures, supported with
sound of clarion purity." (Los Angeles Times)
Active as a vocal and choral clinician and teacher,
Philip has led many master-classes and workshops in
the UK and USA. A recipient of the prestigious Byrne
award for performances of the music of Handel, he is
also an honorary Fellow of the Academy of St
Cecilia, and of the Australian Society for
Composition and Musicology. Philip moved to the USA
in 2000 and is now Director of Music at Immanuel
Church-on-the-Hill in Alexandria.
He is the founder and director of the ensemble
ORPHEUS, which is a joint Anglo-American early music
consort based in Washington, DC, and of CHORWORKS,
whose summer schools and workshops bring together
distinguished faculty and enthusiastic participants
to increase the knowledge of early choral repertoire
and performing techniques.
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Sally Dunkley, soprano
Sally Dunkley
studied at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where as
one of the first few women to sing with the
Clerkes of Oxenford (director David Wulstan),
she established the foundations of a significant
part of her subsequent activities, taking part
in a series of pioneering recordings of
16th-century English music.
After postgraduate studies she moved to London,
working as a professional solo and consort
singer. As a member of the Tallis Scholars she
sang more than 1000 concerts all over the world,
and took part in about 35 recordings, including
the Gramophone's 1987 award-winning Josquin
disc. She continues to enjoy a busy
international schedule with the Sixteen (of
which she is a founder member), Magnificat, the
Gabrieli Consort and Ensemble Plus Ultra.
As soloist she particularly enjoys the music of
Bach and Purcell, and has appeared twice with
Guildford Philharmonic, given several chamber
music recitals in Canterbury, and sung at the
International Festival of Granada. She is also a
regular guest with the women's voice ensemble
Musica Secreta. In 2004 she was soloist in a
programme of music by Handel with Alexandria
Choral Society (VA), and in January 2007 with
the Folger Consort in Washington DC.
Her involvement with 16th-century vocal music as
scholar and editor has run parallel with her
specialisation as performer of this repertoire,
which has provided unique opportunities to
acquire firsthand knowledge of the music. Over
the past 30 years she has made dozens of
performing editions from original sources, for
groups such as the Sixteen, the Hilliard
Ensemble, the Tallis Scholars, Vox, Magnificat
and the Taverner Consort; some of these are
published by Stainer & Bell, Mapa Mundi, the
Church Music Society and Oxenford Imprint (with
which she has been closely associated). They
include several works where one or more lost
voice-parts has had to be reconstructed, notably
Tallis’ Mass Puer natus (with David Wulstan) and
Byrd's Lamentations. She recently worked on a
new reconstruction of the 6-part Lamentations of
Robert White (performed by the ensemble Vox,
director George Steel, in New York in January
2007), and completed a performing edition of the
Mass Inclina Domine by Rogier. (recorded in 2007
under the direction of Philip Cave)
She is increasingly active as lecturer on music
and performance practice, appearing at Oakham
International Summer School (2001), at workshops
held in West Hartford, CT (2002) and Alexandria,
VA (2004), as faculty member of the Chorworks
summer school in Alexandria (2005, 2006 and
2007), and with the Sixteen and the National
Youth Choir in York (2005). She was invited to
give a substantial series of pre-concert talks
on Tallis for the Sixteen's 2005 Choral
Pilgrimage to UK cathedrals, and has been
invited to give some introductory lectures at a
number of workshop days in their 2007 Choral
Pilgrimage series. She has written programme
notes for the BBC Promenade Concerts, the City
of London Festival, the Tallis Scholars, the
Gabrieli Consort and for the Sixteen's Choral
Pilgrimage booklet (2002-3 and 2005), as well as
liner notes for many recordings. Her activities
also include programme research and compilation;
in 2005/6 she worked with Paul McCreesh on the
project 'The Road to Paradise' (a series of
concerts and Deutsche Gramophon recording), and
again in 2007 for 'Ave regina coelorum'. She was
involved in the Sixteen's new project with
student composers at Oxford Brookes University
(2004), and participated in a student mentoring
project at Trinity College of Music in 2005 and
2006/7.
She is actively developing her interest in
ensemble coaching, in masterclasses with the
Banchieri Singers in Hungary (2001, 2002, 2004);
she has conducted several very successful
workshop days in the UK: for the Brighton
Consort (2004, 2006 and 2007), North-east Early
Music Forum (2006) and Thames Valley Early Music
Forum (2007).
In November 2004 she was joint winner of the
Noah Greenberg Award, with Philip Cave, through
the AMS, enabling further work on the music of
Rogier.
2007 sees the launch of the publishing venture
Musica Dei donum (of which she and Francis
Steele are general editors), an exciting new
series of editions to be published by Oxford
University Press in New York.
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Jacqueline Horner
Kwiatek, soprano
Jacqueline Horner has a
reputation as a versatile and accomplished
soloist, performing music from Bach to Babbitt.
She was born in N. Ireland and attended Queens
University Belfast, receiving a Joint Honors
degree in Music and English. She then went to
Guildhall School of Music and Drama and City
University London, receiving an MA in Music
Performance Practice. Jacqueline now resides in
New York City and is active as soloist, ensemble
singer and teacher.
Recent solo work has included appearances with
The Washington Bach Consort and performances at
Carmel Bach Festival, Trinity Lutheran Church
NYC, the Riverside Choral Society NYC, Fairfax
Choral Society, and with Ars Musica Chorale NJ.
She is equally at home on the operatic stage.
She has appeared with such distinguished opera
companies as The Royal Opera Covent Garden,
English National Opera, Almedia Contemporary
Opera, Opera Factory London and Zurich,
Aldeburgh Festival, Broomhill International
Opera and American Opera Projects.
Jacqueline joined the world famous female vocal
quartet Anonymous 4 in 1998 and has recorded
eight award-winning CDs with the group,
including American Angels which twice topped
Billboard's classical music charts. The group
was voted one of Billboard’s Top Classical
Artists 2004. A4 has collaborated with
distinguished artists The Chilingirian String
Quartet, harpist Andrew Lawrence-King, writer
Toni Morrison, composers Steve Reich, Sir Peter
Maxwell-Davies and Sir John Tavener, and has
toured extensively in the US, Europe and the Far
East.
Jacqueline is also a voice teacher. She has
thriving studios in NYC and Washington DC, is a
member of the faculty at Trevor Conservatory of
Music and Chorworks. She gives masterclasses all
over the US including SUNY Oswego and Mannes
School of Music NYC. She has been on the
CHORWORKS faculty since 2005, and she also gives
ensemble technique workshops, working with
established choirs, small ensembles, school
children, volunteer and ad hoc groups in NYC and
beyond.
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Michael McCarthy, bass
Michael McCarthy is
Director of Music at Washington National Cathedral.
As director of music Michael oversees the
Cathedral’s expanding music program, as well as
serves as principal choirmaster. He was the founder
and director of the London [England] Oratory School
Schola. Founded in 1996, the Schola quickly became
one of London’s premier boys concert choirs,
performing regularly on the London concert platform
and in the studio for both the recording and film
industries. Mr. McCarthy directed the Schola in
recordings for films including Sleepy Hollow, The
Lord of the Rings cycle, and
Harry Potter.
A graduate of Guildhall
School of Music and Drama, Mr. McCarthy has worked
with numerous professional choirs including The
Sixteen, The Gabrieli Consort, and the Monteverdi
Choir under the direction of Sir John Eliot
Gardiner. In January 2002 he became the choir
manager for The Monteverdi Choir. His experience
directing young choristers includes duties as lay
clerk at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and Saint
Alban’s Abbey in Hertfordshire. He also served as
master of music at Saint Benedict’s Abbey, Ealing,
prior to beginning the London Oratory School.
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Steven Rickards, countertenor
Steven Rickards has received international acclaim as one of America’s finest
countertenors. He recently took part in the premiere of John Adams's oratorio El
Niño at the Châtelet opera in Paris. There have been subsequent performances of
the work with the Adelaide Symphony, the BBC Philharmonic, the Deutsches
Symphonie Orchester, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, the
Tokyo Symphony, and the Malmö Opera (Sweden). His schedule of performances has
included frequent appearances with Joshua Rifkin and the Bach Ensemble with
performances throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia. He has also
performed with The American Bach Soloists, Chanticleer, Ensemble Voltaire
(formerly Ensemble Oubache), the Gabrieli Consort, Chicago’s Music of the
Baroque, the New London Consort, The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Seattle
Baroque Orchestra, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, The Santa Fe Opera, and
the symphony orchestras of Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St.
Louis and Tokyo. He has sung at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of New
York, and in France as a soloist with The Festival Singers under the direction
of Robert Shaw. Rickards was the soloist in the American premiere
performance of Michael Nyman's Self-Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence
with the Netherlands Wind Ensemble at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. He has
recorded for Chanticleer, Decca, Dorian, Four Winds, Gothic, Harmonia Mundi,
Koch, Newport Classics, Smithsonian, and Teldec the labels. Rickards can also be
heard on the Naxos label where he has recorded two solo albums with lutenist
Dorothy Linell of the songs of John Dowland and Thomas Campion.
Steven currently
lives in Indianapolis where he teaches singing at Butler University and the
University of Indianapolis. He sings regularly with The Choir of Men and Boys at
Christ Church Cathedral, and with Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices. He
recently received his doctorate from Florida State University.
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