Chalice Consort is pleased to announce the first annual Early Music Mining Conference (EMMC), which brings together performers, scholars, and listeners of early music to examine newly-discovered and edited music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras. The Conference will involve the presentation of the top five newly-discovered or edited works submitted to Chalice Consort’s Early Music Scholars’ Competition.

About the Conference and Competition:
There are hundreds of masses, motets, chants, and other such works surviving in Renaissance and Baroque manuscripts that have never been transcribed into modern notation. Chalice Consort is interested in helping the public rediscover some of these works written between 1400 and 1750.

The Early Music Scholars’ Competition calls for submissions of newly-discovered and transcribed (i.e. never published or publicly performed) musical works from all over the world to complement the focal piece of the annual conference. For the 2010 conference, the focal piece is Thomas Ashwell’s Missa Ave Maria.

The Chalice Consort selected five pieces submitted to the Scholars’ Competition to be presented at the EMMC on April 10, 2010. At the EMMC, the five featured editors will present their scores to our panel of early music scholars and Chalice Consort will sing the pieces under the direction of our esteemed Guest Directors. There will be a moderated discussion after each piece has been sung. Attendees of the Conference will vote for their two favorite pieces. The two selected works will be premiered by Chalice Consort at a future concert.

This Conference offers all attendees the opportunity to interact with eminent performers, scholars, students, and listeners of early music.

 

Guest Directors & Panel Speakers
Davitt Moroney (Moderator & Guest Director), UC Berkeley
Jeremy Summerly (Guest Director), Royal Academy of Music
David Trendell (Guest Director), King’s College, London
Geoffrey Webber (Guest Director), Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

 

Further Information, tickets, and other details:
Early Music Scholars’ Competition: www.chaliceconsort.org/emsc.html
Early Music Mining Conference and ticket information: www.chaliceconsort.org/emmc.html