Please feel free to look around. The question is whether the keyboard instrument is a clavichord or a virginals. It is open to students with a special interest in studying and performing the music and the instruments of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. This repertoire is approached as chamber music, with no more than one or two on a part, and the music is selected each semester to fit the particular talents of the participants. Previous experience with early instruments or early music performance is a definite plus, but is not a requirement.
Auditions are quite informal and intended to encourage participation at an appropriate skill level.
The Singers explore a variety of vocal and vocal-instrumental chamber music as soloists and in small ensembles selected for each piece. Original languages are used. In fact the intimate relationship between poetry and music is often one of the most interesting parts of studying a new piece. The repertoire might include everything from Gregorian chant and 11th century organum to madrigals and chansons from the high courts of Europe or the cries of street vendors in early 17th century London. Several singers also double on instruments.