We are a not-for-profit artist booking agency specializing in early music and representing eight of New York City's world-class ensembles. Each has a distinguished record of performance including reviews in major newspapers, recordings, tours, and prizes at major competitions. We made our official debut at the 51st Annual Conference of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) in January, 2008 at the New York Hilton Hotel. Next season, we will be exhibiting at Southern Arts Federation Performing Arts Exchange (PAE) in Atlanta, Western Arts Alliance (WAA) in Seattle, Chamber Music America (CMA) in New York, and APAP 2009. The ensembles on our roster are available for booking for the 2009-2010 season. A wide variety of touring programs is available, in all genres of early music. We may also be able to help presenters with "fill-in" booking for the 2008-2009 season as well. Please contact Senior Artist Representative Wendy Redlinger by email or by telephoning (802) 254 - 6189. Thank you! |
| ARTEK - Gwendolyn Toth, Director. ARTEK has gained a reputation for exciting, dramatic performances of baroque music. Audiences love ARTEK concerts for their compelling musical settings of beautiful poetry and infectious dance rhythms that infuse the performances with vitality and spirit. ARTEK’s discography includes three CDs and a live performance DVD. Founded by director Gwendolyn Toth in 1986, ARTEK currently consists of 12 core performers: Jessica Tranzillo, soprano; Barbara Hollinshead, mezzo-soprano; Drew Minter, countertenor; Philip Anderson, tenor; Michael Brown, tenor; Paul Shipper, bass and guitar; Robert Mealy, violin; Lisa Terry, viola da gamba & cello; Daniel Swenberg, theorbo; Grant Herreid, lute; Christa Patton, harp; and Gwendolyn Toth, harpsichord and organ. |
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| Asteria - Sylvia Rhyne, soprano and Eric Redlinger, tenor and lute. Winner of the 2004 Early Music America Competition for Medieval and Renaissance Performance, the New York Times has called their music "intimate and deeply communicative... meltingly beautiful." Asteria is known for its compelling and personal delivery of 15th century vocal and instrumental music from the courts of Burgundy, performed entirely from memory. Since winning the competition Sylvia and Eric have had a busy touring schedule in the US and have appeared in Mexico, France, Germany and Switzerland. They have released two CDs ('Le Souvenir de vous me tue' and 'Soyes Loyal') and are currently recording a third ('Un très doulx regard') . Two short videos on their website were filmed on-location in the only extant Burgundian chateau, Germolles. |
| New York Consort of Viols - Judith Davidoff, bass viol, Webster Williams, bass viol, Marie Dalby, treble viol and Lawrence Lipnik, tenor viol and voice. Since its founding in 1972, The New York Consort of Viols has championed the beauty and breadth of music written expressly for the viol. Their touring program, The Road from Valencia with guest narrator John Genke, follows the path of Sephardic musicians who, expelled from Spain in 1492, fled to Italy before being recruited for the English court. |
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| Parthenia: A Consort of Viols – Beverly Au, Lawrence Lipnik, Rosamund Morley, and Lisa Terry. Parthenia has been hailed by the New Yorker as "one of the brightest lights in New York's early-music scene". This dynamic ensemble explores the extraordinary repertory for viols of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centures from Tudor England to the court of Versailles and beyond. Parthenia has released two full CDs and a Sampler CD. Their newest touring program, When Music and Sweet Poetry Agree includes Paul Hecht, actor and Jacqueline Horner, soprano. |
| Pomerium - Alexander Blachly, Director. Inspired by the renowned chapel choirs of the Renaissance, Pomerium revives the golden age of a cappella singing. The ensemble, featuring some of the finest singers in the country and acclaimed for its luminous sound, performs frequently in New York—at such venues as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Frick Collection, and Music Before 1800—as well as across the USA and abroad. The New York Times noted that Pomerium is "the standard by which early music vocal groups are measured." The group of 12-14 singers is available for a variety of programs including Renaissance mannerism, the Vatican chapel, Josquin, and others. Distinguished scholar/conductor Alexander Blachly is also available for entertaining and enriching lectures before or after concerts. | |
Repast Baroque Ensemble - Amelia Roosevelt, baroque violin - Keri Mikkelson, harpsichord - John Mark Rosendaal, viola da gamba and baroque 'cello. Repast is a collaboration of three period-instrument virtuosi presenting vivid renditions of music of the baroque era. Repast enjoys frequent and fruitful collaborations with leading period-instrument players and vocalists in order to explore the vast and masterful repertoire of the baroque era. Founded in New York City in 2003, the baroque ensemble was a finalist in the Early Music America/Naxos Recording Competition that same year. |
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| Sinfonia New York - A new period-instrument orchestra organized by two of the country’s most respected instrumentalists to promote superior music-making in a collaborative environment, Sinfonia New York made its debut at New York’s Town Hall on October 1, 2007. Under the direction of renowned conductor and soloist John Scott (Music Director of St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue), the orchestra, ranging in size from 15 to 35 members, performs repertoire from the baroque to classical periods. |
| Trefoil - Drew Minter, countertenor/harp - Mark Rimple, countertenor/lute - Marcia Young, soprano/harp. Trefoil is a trio of singer-instrumentalists long active in early music, with experience in such ensembles as Concert Royal, Les Arts Florissants, New York's Ensemble for Early Music, Pomerium, Clarion Music society, Piffaro, My Lord Chamberlain's Consort, and other groups. The trio debuted in New York and Philadelphia early in 2000 with a program of 14th-century French ars subtilior song: Trefoil has recorded two CDs and offers five touring programs. |
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