Peter Phillips
 Peter
Phillips has made an impressive if unusual reputation for himself in
dedicating his life's work to the research and performance of
Renaissance sacred music. Having won a scholarship to Oxford in
1972, Peter Phillips studied Renaissance music with David Wulstan
and Denis Arnold, and gained experience in conducting small vocal
ensembles, already experimenting with the rarer parts of the
repertoire. Besides
his work with The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips has for many years
contributed a regular column (as well as a cricket column) to The
Spectator. In 1995 he became the Advisory Editor of The Musical
Times, the oldest continuously published music journal in Europe.
His first book English Sacred Music 1549 - 1649, a unique and
encyclopaedic account of the history of English-texted sacred music
written during the golden period between the Reformation and the
Commonwealth, has been published by Gimell. His interest in the
Renaissance extends beyond the music to fine art and he is currently
working on an account of the cultural background of the period. He
continues to work with groups around the world. In 1997 he visited
Japan as the adjudicator of a choral festival in Tokyo and has also
worked in Italy and the USA with groups specialising in the
polyphonic repertoire.
Peter
Phillips has made numerous television and radio broadcasts. Besides
those featuring The Tallis Scholars (which include live broadcasts
from the 1988 Proms. the Aldeburgh Festival, the Bath Festival and
the Cheltenham Festival), he has appeared several times on Radio 3's
Music Weekly and on the BBC World Service, on Kaleidoscope (Radio
4), on Today (Radio 4) and on European, Canadian and North American
radio. In December 1990 Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars and
Gimell Records were the subject of a major South Bank Show
television documentary in which the viewer is taken on a personal
odyssey through the sacred Renaissance repertoire.
Ghislaine Morgan
 Ghislaine Morgan
is in
much demand as a singer, singing teacher, adjudicator and lecturer.
She has performed throughout Europe, India, Japan and the USA and
has recorded for the Arte Nova, Decca, EMI, Gimell, Naxos, Richmond,
and Regent labels. Originally a pianist and violinist, she went on
to read music at Oxford where she majored in vocal performance.
There followed four years as a classroom teacher, before training as
a singer at the Royal College of Music, where she was awarded the Sacher Scholarship. "An exquisite soprano" ..... the recital was
"lifted into ecstasy" (Musical Times). Ghislaine has worked
regularly with many reknowned groups such as The Monteverdi Choir,
The Tallis Scholars, The Sixteen, The King's Consort, and The
Richard Hickox Singers amongst others. Opera work includes chorus
work with the The Aix-en Provence Festival Opera, The Bath Festival
Opera and Opera de Lyon. She sang for 17 years with the choir of St.
Brides Church, Fleet Street, her recording of Mozart's Laudate
Dominum receiving special mention in the Gramophone. Her career has
encompassed a wide range of musical styles. Solo engagements include
a concert tour of South Africa singing Das Knaben Wunderhorn;
recording the title role of Handel's Deborah for German radio;
Finzi's Dies Natalis; Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne; and work
for the Mathieson Music School, Calcutta, 2nd International
Festival, Tel Aviv Festival for Vocal music, Sligo Festival of
Baroque Music and Ballet Du Nord. Ghislaine's educational work is
inspired by a passion for encouraging others to be expressive with
confidence, and a desire to demystify vocal technique so that it can
be both fun and simple to learn. She has a private practice in
London and also teaches at Cambridge University and Dulwich College,
from where she trains trebles for English National Opera,
Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Royal Opera House. She has
directed workshops in Britain, Holland, Iceland, India, Italy,
Portugal and Spain and is on the faculty of the National Youth
Choirs of Great Britain and the Rimini International Choral
Workshop. Ghislaine is the Founder-Director of the Sintra
International Singing and Choral Conducting Course.
Andrea Angelini
 Born
in Bologna, Italy, Andrea Angelini began his piano studies as
a child, at the Rimini Lettimi School. He later earned a Bachelor of
Music at Ferrara's Frescobaldi Conservatory. Particularly interested
in piano pedagogy, he studied with Rita Ferri and Alexander Lonquich.
After earning a Master in Choral Conducting he studied
music therapy with Professor Cremaschi of Milan University. His
interests led him to the choral field, and he earned a Bachelor
studying Liturgical Music at Modena and at the International Art
Academy in Rome with Fulvio Angius. He also studied organ at
Pesaro's Conservatory of Music. He is the Artistic Director and
Conductor of the professional group Musica Ficta Vocal Ensemble
www.ensemble.musicaficta.org
that frequently performs in important Festivals in Italy and abroad.
For many years, Andrea Angelini has conducted concerts with the
choir Carla Amori, in Italy and abroad. He has also worked
with the Cattolica City Choir and the Cesena Lyric Choir.
He was named Director of the Rimini Cathedral Choir,
Alessandro Grandi. He led this choir in several performances,
including in important venues such as St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome -
where he was able to personally meet Pope John Paul II - and in
Milan’s Cathedral. He has also conducted the Lithuanian Jauna
Muzika Choir, the Latvian Ave Sol and the Tudor
Consort from New Zealand. Mr. Angelini is the Artistic Director
of the International Festival Voices from America and the Sound
of the Organ held annually in Rimini each spring. He is also the
Artistic Director and member of the Jury of the international organ
competition, Marcello Galanti. Moreover he has been member of
the Jury of two important Organ Competitions in Moscow, the Kitka
Organ Competition and the Tariverdev Organ Competition.
He has been member of the Jury at many International Choir’s
Competitions. He frequently leads choral workshops in Italy and
abroad. He is the artistic director and one of the tutors at the
Rimini International Choral Workshop, where he teaches with Peter
Phillips of the Tallis Scholars,
www.musicaficta.org/welcome.html.
Mr. Angelini is also the artistic director of the Rimini
International Choral Competition,
www.riminichoral.it.
He taught music theory, music history and piano at the State School
of Music of the Republic of San Marino. His professional memberships
include the Artistic Committee of AERCO (Regional Association of
Choirs), FENIARCO (National Italian Federation of Regional Choral
Associations), ABCD (British Association of Choral Directors) and
RCO (The Royal College of Organists). He is a regular reviewer for
the press. He is the Chief Editor of
FARCORO, the Choral Magazine of
the Regional Choir Association and of the International Choral
Bulletin (ICB), the membership magazine of the IFCM (International
Federation for Choral Music). He has written numerous transcriptions
and arrangements for choirs and chamber ensembles, including a
monumental transcription of Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria in D RV589, for
choir, soloists, and organ (with the organ part being quite suited
to the instrument). His transcription of Faure's Requiem is
published by Gelber Hund Verlag of Berlin, who are also
publishers of a book of repertoire for organ and violin, edited by
Mr. Angelini. For the American CanticaNOVA Publication, he
has prepared transcriptions of important Renaissance Motets.
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