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Consortium5 are a vibrant and exciting young recorder quintet. Formed in 2005 when Kathryn Corrigan, Inga Maria Klaucke, Oonagh Lee, Gail Macleod and Roselyn Maynard were students at the Royal Academy of Music, they have since established themselves as one of the foremost recorder consorts of their generation and an ensemble of unique appeal to a wide range of audiences. A year after forming, in 2006, Consortium5 became the first ever recorder consort to win the prestigious Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award for performance. In 2007 they were finalists in the Early Music Network Young Artists Competition and in October of the same year performed live on Radio 3s In Tune programme. 2007 also marked the beginning of Consortium5’s Junior Fellowship at Trinity College of Music, which has been extended until 2009 through the generous support of the Joan Greenfield Trust. They are also currently resident on the Park Lane Group Young Artists Series, and made their Purcell Room debut in January 2009. The success of Consortium5 is due in no small measure to their flexible and innovative performance style. With an equally strong commitment to community music and the concert platform,

Consortium5 consider both as closely linked and continue bringing new elements to their performance practice, particularly in their use of imaginative stage formations. Since 2005, Consortium5 have performed in numerous venues to strong critical acclaim, including the Totnes Festival, Balerno Festival, Haddington Music Society, Barber Institute, York Early Music Festival, Newcastle Early Music Festival, the Tilford Bach Festival, the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, the Cambridge Early Music Summer School Concert Series, St Martin in the Fields, St James Piccadilly, the Handel House and Windsor Castle. Resident on the Live Music Now scheme, Consortium5 have also performed in a wide variety of community settings, including hospitals, special schools and residential homes. In addition to this, Consortium5 also see their essential role in promoting the development of quintet repertoire by closely collaborating with composers. Since their first commission in 2007, the quintet has premiered 12 new works, all of which were especially written for them.  Their inspiring collaboration with the composition department at Trinity College led to an invitation to perform at the British Conservatoires Composers Forum in Glasgow 2008. In January 2009 they premiered three specially commissioned works at the Purcell Room by composers including David Bedford. Consortium5 present a wide range of repertoire from medieval to renaissance, baroque and contemporary music on a staggering array of instruments. Click here to listen to our latest recordings.

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