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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.

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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

A magnificent display of the very best kind of polyphonic music.

Anthony Pryer, BBC Music Magazine

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

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Awards

Josquin des Prez

Gramophone Award for Spatial Audio, 2021

Gramophone Award for Spatial Audio, 2021


A Spanish Nativity

Classics Today 10/10

Classics Today 10/10


A Wondrous Mystery

Classics Today 10/10, October 2015

Classics Today 10/10, October 2015


Divine Theatre

GRAMMY Nominee, Best Small Ensemble Performance, 2018

GRAMMY Nominee, Best Small Ensemble Performance, 2018

La Clef ResMusica, February 2017

La Clef ResMusica, February 2017


Heavenly Harmonies

Classics Today 10/10, January 2008

Classics Today 10/10, January 2008

Diapason d’or, 2008

Diapason d’or, 2008

Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, II/2008

Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, II/2008


In a Strange Land

Diapason d’Or, February 2019

Diapason d’Or, February 2019


Media Vita

Classics Today 10/10, January 2010

Classics Today 10/10, January 2010

Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, II/2010

Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, II/2010


Music for Compline

Choc du Monde de la Musique, February 2007

Choc du Monde de la Musique, February 2007

Classics Today 10/10, January 2007

Classics Today 10/10, January 2007

Diapason d’or de l’année, 2007

Diapason d’or de l’année, 2007

GRAMMY Nominee, Best Small Ensemble Performance, 2008

GRAMMY Nominee, Best Small Ensemble Performance, 2008

Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, II/2007

Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, II/2007


Passion & Resurrection

Classics Today 10/10, November 2012

Classics Today 10/10, November 2012


Puer natus est

Edison Klassiek Award, 2011

Edison Klassiek Award, 2011

Choc de Classica, November 2010

Choc de Classica, November 2010

Diapason d’or, October 2010

Diapason d’or, October 2010

International Record Review – Outstanding, October 2010

International Record Review – Outstanding, October 2010

Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, I/2011

Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, I/2011


Song of Songs

Gramophone Award for Early Music, 2009

Gramophone Award for Early Music, 2009

Choc de Classica, May 2009

Choc de Classica, May 2009

Classic FM Magazine Editor’s Choice, July 2009

Classic FM Magazine Editor’s Choice, July 2009

Classics Today 10/10, April 2009

Classics Today 10/10, April 2009

Gramophone Editor’s Choice, August 2009

Gramophone Editor’s Choice, August 2009

GRAMMY Nominee, Best Small Ensemble Performance, 2010

GRAMMY Nominee, Best Small Ensemble Performance, 2010


Tenebrae Responsories

Choc de Classica, 2018

Choc de Classica, 2018

Gramophone Editor’s Choice, May 2018

Gramophone Editor’s Choice, May 2018

4F de Télérama, March 2018

4F de Télérama, March 2018


The Phoenix Rising

Classics Today 10/10, May 2014

Classics Today 10/10, May 2014

Choc de Classica, September 2013

Choc de Classica, September 2013

Fono Forum Empfehlung des Monats, October 2013

Fono Forum Empfehlung des Monats, October 2013

Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, IV/13

Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, IV/13

Diapason d’or, September 2013

Diapason d’or, September 2013

International Record Review – Outstanding, September 2013

International Record Review – Outstanding, September 2013


Tune thy Musicke to thy Hart

Choc de Classica, March 2012

Choc de Classica, March 2012

Gramophone Editor’s Choice, May 2012

Gramophone Editor’s Choice, May 2012