Name: Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble
Start: 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2020-03-31T17:00:00-04:00
Location: St John’s United Church of Christ

Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble

The Pennsylvania Consort sponsors a six-concert Guest Artist Series in the fall and spring each year, six free outdoor summer music concerts, a performance each December of Handel’s Messiah and educational programs in the schools. The all-volunteer organization keeps concert ticket prices low to encourage a wide audience, and relies on donations, advertising revenue, and grants to sustain its activities. The Pennsylvania Consort Society is a publicly supported 501(c)(3) Not-For-profit Corporation.

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Considered one of the premiere ensembles of its kind in North America, the Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble (WCSE), directed by Michael Holmes, consists of historic brass instrument specialists based in Washington D.C. Assemblages of cornetts (curved hybrid brass/woodwind instruments) and sackbuts (early trombones) comprised what was the standard brass ensemble of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras of Western music. WCSE’s membership has modified and grown considerably since its inception in 1997, performing extensively and in high demand in the Eastern U.S. by some of the more prominent historic vocal and instrumental groups in the American early music community. Its repertoire is vast, exploring nearly every possible style period and region where early brass sources were represented, including music from the Italian, German, Polish, Bohemian, Moravian, Scandinavian, Spanish, and English courts, as well as the Americas. In the summer of 2001, WCSE produced its first recording of music by Giovanni Gabrieli and Heinrich Schütz.  In August 2003, they were invited to be the featured ensemble at the Historic Brass Society Festival at Yale University (New Haven, CT). WCSE was also featured in the 2004 CD recording Mass in Honor of the Immaculate Conception in music by Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Frescobaldi, Marenzio, and Ugolini, in collaboration with the choir of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. Another one of their recordings of a canzona by Claudio Merulo circulated widely to numerous North American universities in 2005 as part of the anthology for Craig Wright and Brian Simms’s music history textbook Music in Western Civilization. WCSE performed at the 2015 Boston Early Music Festival in collaboration with the Duke Vespers Ensemble and released the CD Viva Italia: Sacred Music in 17th Century Rome on the CSR Classics label. In December 2016, the group was the featured ensemble for the Washington Bach Consort’s Christmas with the Consort in December 2016. For the 2018-19 season, WCSE is the ensemble-in-residence at St. David’s Roland Park in Baltimore, MD, where they are focusing on performing and recording some untouched archival music from the court of Ferdinand II in Vienna (1620-37). The ensemble continues to provide their unique, mellifluous, and historically informed sound for numerous choirs who want to enrich their programming through the glorious forgotten practice of colla parte (“doubling the choral parts”) or providing Stadtpfeiffer (“town piper”) fanfares and flourishes for ceremonial occasions. WCSE has received much critical acclaim since its inception:
 
“…delivered with serious attention to detail.” - The Washington Post
 
“…a beautiful display of virtuosity.” - The Washington Post
 
“…tantalizingly close to reproducing Venetian-baroque surround sound” - Richmond Times-Dispatch
 
“A stylish and sonorous performance.” - Richmond Times-Dispatch
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