Theatre of Voices

THEATRE OF VOICES was founded by Paul Hillier in 1990. Current projects include music ranging from Perotin to Dowland, and many of today’s most eminent composers such as Berio, Pärt, Reich, Cage, and Stockhausen. The group’s most recent CDs include Cries of London (English renaissance music) and Stockhausen’s Stimmung (the Copenhagen version). During 2007: members of the group performed John Adams’s Grand Pianola Music in Los Angeles, conducted by the composer; they also premiered a new John Cage event - John Cage and the Music of Always - at the Stimmen Festival in Germany; and in Australia performed the premiere of Pärt’s Passio with special film by Paolo Cherchi-Usai (European premiere in Copenhagen in September with Ars Nova). In August the group gave two concerts at the Edinburgh Festival, and in October they premiered a new work by David Lang, The Little Match Girl Passion, at NewYork's Carnegie Hal - the program also included Berio's A-Ronne. In November they appeared with Steve Reich and Musicians in Normandy's Festival d'Automne, performing Reich, Pärt, Perotin and the European premiere of Lang's Little Match Girl Passion.