ModernMedieval
Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, Artistic Director
MODERNMEDIEVAL
ModernMedieval was created by Dr. Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, former member of the world-renowned vocal quartet Anonymous 4, as a performing and educational resource for both early and new vocal music.
ModernMedieval presents Dr. Horner-Kwiatek and her work as a singer and clinician. Dr. Horner-Kwaitek travels all over the US giving presentations, masterclasses and workshops on writing, performing and programming early and new music, including an acclaimed seminar on Vocal pedagogy for Composers that she has given at Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music and Montclair State.
MODERNMEDIEVAL VOICES
ModernMedieval Voices is all-female ensemble created by Dr. Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek to present programs that combine medieval chant and polyphony with new commissions and music from later eras. She is joined by singers drawn from some of the country's leading early and new music ensembles, including Roomful of Teeth and Trinity Wall Street Choir.
ModernMedieval Voices takes the vocal techniques developed by Anonymous 4 for singing this repertoire and combines them with a fresh approach to programming that introduces this wonderful music to new audiences. Programs for the ensemble range from early music offerings to world premieres of new work.
ModernMedieval Voices has made appearances at The Ecstatic Music Festival, Liquid Music, MetArtsLive, Electric Earth Concerts, National Museum for Women DC and Virginia Arts Festival, among others, and has given residencies at East Carolina University, SUNYBinghamton and Princeton as part of Princeton Sound Kitchen. This season they are performing with The Folger Consort DC and at the UNLV Baroque Festival and Caramoor Music Festival as well as singing in the world premiere of Pamela Madsen’s Oratorio for the Earth in LA. They are featured on composer Christopher Tin’s recording of his new project To Shiver the Sky and will be recording their signature program Words of Love and Wisdom for digital release in Fall 2020.
"(they) sang exquisitely together, their voices so tightly intertwined that they often sounded as one clear strand.....an evening of gloriously clear voices singing exquisitely wrought music spanning centuries." (Steven Pisano, Feastofmusic.com)
UPCOMING E V E N T S
Due to Covid-19, all of ModernMedieval's concerts due to take place this Spring, Summer and Fall have been postponed. Updates will be posted as concerts get re-scheduled.
MARCH 6-8, 2020
THREE FOUNTAINS: MUSIC FROM THE TRECENTO
ModernMedieval Voices and The Folger Consort
music by Landini, Bologna and others. Includes the world premiere of Questa Gentillisima Donna by Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek
CLARA SCHUMANN 6 Lieder for Soprano and Piano, Op. 13
JOHANNES BRAHMS 4 Lieder for Soprano and Piano
3pm. Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University http://www.princetonuniversityconcerts.org/concerts/concert/richardson-chamber-players-clara-schumann-at-200
OCTOBER 20
NOVEMBER 2
Sing we and Chant it! a workshop for singers and conductors. http://njchoralconsortium.org/fall-2019-workshop.html
DECEMBER 14
ModernMedieval Voices
A Midwinter Feast
Caramoor Music Room 2pm and 5pm.