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7 August 2024

Bruegel Consort receives Ensemble Bursary

We’re delighted to announce that the recipients of our Ensemble Development Bursary 2024-26 are the Bruegel Consort.

Founder Lilly Vadaneaux writes: “We have been admirers of Stile Antico for years, so are absolutely thrilled to have been selected for their Ensemble Development Bursary 2024–2026. We feel so fortunate to have this opportunity to work with Stile Antico over the course of the next two years. We are grateful to be able to continue our exploration of Renaissance polyphony, and to bring little-known works to wider audiences with their support and advice. We would like to thank the Stile Antico Foundation and others who made this award possible.”

Stile Antico had a considerable number of excellent applicants for this bursary. The Bruegel Consort stood out for their musical excellence and their proven interest in unusual and little-known repertoire, and we felt that they were at the ideal stage of their career to benefit from this award. As part of the bursary, they will receive coaching and mentoring from members of Stile Antico, as well as financial support for a series of UK concerts.

Bruegel Consort is a vocal ensemble, founded in 2023 in Cambridge by Lilly Vadaneaux, focused on performing Renaissance polyphony with a special interest in little-known works. Several members of the ensemble sang together in Cambridge college choirs and in the Cambridge Early Music Consort, run by Edward Wickham and Matthew Gouldstone. Bruegel Consort gave their first concert in January 2023, of a selection of motets from William Byrd’s three publications of Cantiones Sacrae, inspired by Lilly’s research into the relationship between text and music in Byrd’s 1589 Cantiones. Following the success of this initial concert, the ensemble went on to present programmes of music by Robert White and Tudor composer William Rasar.

Bruegel Consort was recently selected to perform at the 2024 Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe, where they will present William Rasar’s Missa Christe Jesu. The edition used for the Rasar mass was created by Nick Walters, one of the ensemble’s tenors, who transcribed the music from the original partbooks.

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