Stile Antico and COVID-19
The pandemic has brought great challenges for musicians, but has also sparked plenty of innovative thinking. Read about what we’ve been getting up to, and find out how to support us through these uncertain times.
Early Music Vocal Ensemble
The pandemic has brought great challenges for musicians, but has also sparked plenty of innovative thinking. Read about what we’ve been getting up to, and find out how to support us through these uncertain times.
Ahead of the release of our Decca Classics debut ‘The Golden Renaissance: Josquin’, find out about the career of this extraordinary composer, and why his music still casts such a spell today.
Our first concerts to in-person audiences since March are almost here! Here’s Kate, introducing our new programme and describing how the group is feeling about returning to live performance.
Helen has the final update from last week’s US tour: “I’m writing this back in Blighty, a few days after we returned from our latest US Tourette. It was certainly a whirlwind trip, and a particularly chilly whirlwind in Vermont! Luckily we had a classically warm welcome at least for our return to St Johnsbury….
Emma takes up the story of our US travels as we reach the beautiful state of Vermont. “After a fairly late end to the evening (at least by our body clocks) it was a little painful to get up early for a day involving 2 flights, a drive, a rehearsal and a concert. However, all…
Here’s Kate, getting our US tour blog underway with news of our time in Columbus, OH! “The morning of Day One of our mini-tour dawned bright and fair. And cold. With temperatures hovering around freezing, we were glad that the more organised members of the group had checked the forecast before leaving the UK and…
Here’s Tom and Emma, wrapping up our Christmas US tour blog from Kansas City. “Stepping off the plane at Kansas City airport, we had a free day stretching out in front of us. The Marriott Hotel in Downtown KC has been the standard accommodation for itinerant Stilists for all our trips here, so that was…
Eleanor blogs about our time in Texas! “The first few days of our tour were characterised by labyrinthine churches, warm acoustics, and even warmer Texan hospitality. Our first stop was Dallas, where we returned to the Church of the Incarnation to present our new Christmas programme, A Spanish Nativity, and were rewarded afterwards with a…
As we battle the jet lag back in London, here’s Becky with the final instalment of our tour blog! “Arriving in Macau at night gives one a first impression of opulence and vulgarity – it’s not known as the ‘Vegas of China’ for nothing – but as we discovered over the next couple of days,…
Here’s Andrew’s blog about a memorable few days in South Korea. “Having finally satisfied the good folk of TSA that we were carrying nothing more seditious than Ferrabosco, Dowland, and an ample supply of sleeping pills, we boarded our 0135 flight and settled in for the sixteen hour journey from New York to Taipei. Once…
Here’s Helen, getting our tour blog underway! “It’s fair to say that our time in the States was dominated by four letters – SSSS. “We set off early on Thursday morning to Gatwick airport. The Korean visas had been completed at the eleventh hour, so James and Becky were distributing passports in the check-in queue!…
Stile Antico is about to embark on its most ambitious tour yet, geographically speaking – a complete trip around the world, with concerts in the US and East Asia. On Thursday we fly to Denver, Colorado, where we perform on Friday evening in St John’s Cathedral. Concerts follow in St Mary the Virgin, NYC, and…