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DREW MINTER
Countertenor, harp, percussion

Regarded for over four decades as one of the world's finest countertenors, Drew Minter grew up as a boy treble in the Washington Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys. He continued his education at Indiana University and the Musik Hochschule of Vienna. Mr. Minter appeared in leading roles with the opera companies of Brussels, Toulouse, Boston, Washington, Santa Fe, Wolf Trap, Glimmerglass, and Nice, among others. A recognized specialist in the works of Handel, he performed frequently at the Handel festivals of Gottingen, Halle, Karlsruhe, and Maryland. He sang with many of the world's leading baroque orchestras, including Les Arts Florissants, the Handel and Haydn Society, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and the Freiburger Barockorchester, and guested at festivals such as Tanglewood, Ravinia, Regensburg, BAM's Next Wave, Edinburgh, Spoleto, and Boston Early Music. Other orchestra credits include the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Minter was a founding member of the Newberry Consort, TREFOIL, and My Lord Chamberlain's Consort, and has sung frequently with ARTEK and the Folger Consort. He made more than 70 recordings of repertoire from nine centuries of music and has directed much opera. For 20 years he has been Senior Lecturer in Music at Vassar College.

"Countertenors  DREW MINTER, MARK RIMPLE, and soprano MARCIA YOUNG have appeared with leading early music ensembles around the country, and the sounds they make are both hearty and ethereal."    

                                                                        -- Washington Post

 

 

                                                                                                                   

MARK RIMPLE
Countertenor, lute, cittole, psaltery, gittern

Named among "the first rank of U.S. lutenists" (Lute Society of America), Mark Rimmple has received praise for his interpretations of early music from national newspapers and journals including the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, Early Music America, and Early Music (U.K.). he is a founding member of TREFOIL and has appearaed frequently as a guest artist with Severall Friends, the Newberry and Folger Consorts, and Piffaro, the Renaissance Band. He has performed with Les Delices and Blue Heron, the King's Noyse, Ex Umbris (at the Clinton White House), Early Music New York and Parthenia, Melomanie, Network for New Music, Cygnus Ensemble and the GEMS production of The Play of Daniel. He has recorded medieval music with TREFOIL, the Newberry Consort, and Seven Times  Salt (cittern), and contemporary music with Network for New Music (archlute) and Cygnus Ensemble (countertenor). His solo lute recording Tre Liuti received strong reviews, and he is currently recording a follow-up collection of music for guitar and archlute, French Connections. As a composer, he frequently incorporates early instruments and techniques. His composition CD, January: Songs and Chamber Music of Mark Rimple, includes music for archlute, countertenor, viola da gamba and harpsichord, and his Mystic fragments for Baroque violin and archlute can be heard on Rebecca Harris's solo recording, A String Divided. Mark has written articles about the lasting influence of the musical/mathematical treatises of Boethius and recently contributed to the Encyclopedia of Tablature (Centre d'Etudes Superiours de la Renaissance, Tours). Dr. Rimple is a member of the Department of Music Theory, History and Composition faculty at The Wells School of Music, West Chester University, Pennsylvania, where he leads the Collegium Musicum.

"Just as new to me was the eerily beautiful medieval music performed by the vocal and instrumental trio TREFOIL. I could hear each voice distinctly as it passed, in clear, otherworldly harmonies."

 

             -- New York Times

MARCIA YOUNG
Soprano and harp

Soprano and historical harper Marcia Young was cited by the Washington Post for her "elegant, dark-hued soprano voice" and "winning mixture of formal restraint and emotional intensity." A founding member of my Lord Chamberlain's Consort and the medieval trio TREFOIL, she also performs frequently with the Salisbury Four and lutenists Andy Rutherford and Chris Morrongiello. She has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cloisters, the Yale Center for British Art, the DeBlasiis Chamber Music Series in Glens Falls, the Distinguished Artists Series in Syosset, the Ars Antiqua series in Chappaqua, CityMusic in Columbus, the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Morgan Library and the Royal Oak Society in New York, the HotShops gallery space in Omaha, and the Lute Society of America Conference and Seminar in Cleveland. She has collaborated with Piffaro, Parthenia, and the Folger, Bacheler, and Newberry Consorts, and has appeared in concert at the Connecticut, Washington, Madison, Amherst, and San Francisco Early Music Festivals. Also a music journalist, she has written frequently for Playbill and Opera News and has been heard over WQXR-New York and Sirius-XM as a classical radio host. She is director of performance studies for the Department of Music at Stern College, Yeshiva University, New York.

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