VICTORIA’S REQUIEM: MUSIC of the SPANISH GOLDEN AGE

Faculty

 

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.

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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