A magnificent display of the very best kind of polyphonic music.
Anthony Pryer, BBC Music Magazine
Press Centre
Welcome to Stile Antico’s pages for press and promoters.
Here you can access our biography, publicity images and our full review archive. To request any further materials, or to arrange a press interview with members of the group, please contact info@ikonarts.com.
Biography
Please follow the link below to download the latest Stile Antico biography in .doc format. We request that promoters do not alter or abbreviate this material in any way without our consent. Should you require a biography of a different length, please contact info@ikonarts.com and we will provide one at the earliest opportunity.
Photography
Our latest publicity photographs appear below. Click on each image to view in high-resolution, and then save, or right-click and choose Save Link As or Save Target As to download. Please ensure that the photographer Kaupo Kikkas is credited wherever these images are reproduced. We are very grateful to the Alamire Foundation for allowing us to use their beautiful home at Park Abbey, Leuven, for this shoot.
Press Quotes
The real test of musicians whose work you’ve loved on recordings is whether they sound as good in person. Stile Antico passed that test with a perfectly exquisite performance.
Sarah Bryan Millar, St Louis Post-Dispatch
Stile Antico is arguably the finest this country has produced… Seemingly everything they perform is elevated to a new level of perfection.
David Denton, Yorkshire Post
Tudor music thrills anew, thanks to the artistry and musicianship of this top British choir.
William Dart, New Zealand Herald
As this thrilling concert proved, Stile Antico is anything but antique. Their sound has the urgency and freshness you get from young voices, and an amazing rhythmic vitality.
Ivan Hewitt, The Daily Telegraph
Stile Antico is capable of great nuance, emphasis, and expression, and they go straight to the heart of each concentrated musical experience… an evening of consistently magnificent music-making.
David Gordon Duke, Vancouver Sun
Superior music-making ruled in the lunchtime Prom… Breasts, pomegranates, apples, honey: the sensuous vocabulary vibrated with that mellifluous vocal bliss only possible with long rehearsals, close listening and constant eye contact… Stile Antico’s pitch, unanimity and beauty never wavered.
Geoff Brown, The Times
Stile Antico represents the future of serious, unhyped, technically polished, stylistically attuned, and musically affecting choral performance.
David Vernier, Classics Today
The singing is staggeringly beautiful, the balance meticulous.
SP, The Sunday Times
Some of the most stunningly beautiful and moving choral singing I have ever heard.
GATENS, American Record Guide
The monastery was plunged into a stunned silence from which emanated only the crystalline and ethereal voices of Stile Antico, lifting the audience to an atmosphere of sublime spirituality, forgetting for a moment the corporeal nature of their existence.
Gonzalo Roldán Herencia, Granada Hoy
Stile Antico was at its best, marshaling color, texture, and pacing to give shape to music that can otherwise seem gorgeous and inert. The Agnus Dei was one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard.
David Weininger, The Boston Globe
An ensemble of breathtaking freshness, vitality and balance.
Steve Smith, New York Times
In short, this was a cappella heaven.
Michael Church, The Independent
Perhaps the most ravishing sound I heard this year.
Alex Ross, The New Yorker
Awards
Josquin des Prez
Gramophone Award for Spatial Audio, 2021
A Spanish Nativity
Classics Today 10/10
A Wondrous Mystery
Classics Today 10/10, October 2015
Divine Theatre
GRAMMY Nominee, Best Small Ensemble Performance, 2018
La Clef ResMusica, February 2017
Heavenly Harmonies
Classics Today 10/10, January 2008
Diapason d’or, 2008
Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, II/2008
In a Strange Land
Diapason d’Or, February 2019
Media Vita
Classics Today 10/10, January 2010
Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, II/2010
Music for Compline
Choc du Monde de la Musique, February 2007
Classics Today 10/10, January 2007
Diapason d’or de l’année, 2007
GRAMMY Nominee, Best Small Ensemble Performance, 2008
Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, II/2007
Passion & Resurrection
Classics Today 10/10, November 2012
Puer natus est
Edison Klassiek Award, 2011
Choc de Classica, November 2010
Diapason d’or, October 2010
International Record Review – Outstanding, October 2010
Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, I/2011
Song of Songs
Gramophone Award for Early Music, 2009
Choc de Classica, May 2009
Classic FM Magazine Editor’s Choice, July 2009
Classics Today 10/10, April 2009
Gramophone Editor’s Choice, August 2009
GRAMMY Nominee, Best Small Ensemble Performance, 2010
Tenebrae Responsories
Choc de Classica, 2018
Gramophone Editor’s Choice, May 2018
4F de Télérama, March 2018
The Phoenix Rising
Classics Today 10/10, May 2014
Choc de Classica, September 2013
Fono Forum Empfehlung des Monats, October 2013
Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, IV/13
Diapason d’or, September 2013
International Record Review – Outstanding, September 2013
Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart
Choc de Classica, March 2012
Gramophone Editor’s Choice, May 2012