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 Consortium5 formed in 2005 while Kathryn Corrigan, Inga Maria Klaucke, Oonagh Lee, Gail Macleod and Roselyn Maynard were students at the Royal Academy of Music, out of the players’ desire to advance their skills in the mildly addictive art of consort playing. While at the Academy, Consortium5 achieved success in the Friends of the Royal Academy Early Music Prize 2006. In June 2006 they were accepted onto the ‘Live Music Now’ and ‘Music in Hospitals’ schemes, on which they are currently resident. In the summer of 2006 they completed a series of 10 concerts for ‘Music in Hospitals’ with funding from the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Trust. Consortium5 has performed at the Tilford Bach Festival 2006, the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival 2006, Germany, the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the National Portrait Gallery, London, as well as in concerts in Edinburgh and Münster, Germany. In the context of their extensive community work they have appeared on National Television and were invited to perform at Windsor Castle as part of the ‘Live Music Now’ 30th anniversary celebrations. |
Its members having recently graduated, Consortium5 is avidly extending its concert engagements performing in both quintet and quartet
formation, with recent recitals including the CEMSS concert series and Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the National Gallery in Edinburgh,
and forthcoming concerts at the Handel House and Foundling Museums, as well as the Haddington Concert Society, Scotland. In 2006 they were awarded the prestigious Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award for their proposal to promote the recorder as a beautiful historic and contemporary instrument. With this support the ensemble was able to buy a set of Renaissance consort recorders by the renowned maker Adriana Breukink. The set consists of nine recorders in various sizes and ranges, stretching from a descant to a subbass, which is over six feet tall. By working in three areas, in the community, in education and on the concert platform, Consortium5 aim to raise the profile of their instrument. They present not only the full range of repertoire from medieval to renaissance, baroque and contemporary music, but also see their essential role in continuing the developm ent of quintet repertoire by collaborating with composers. This summer saw both the premiere of their first commission, ‘Three Stages’ by Luke Styles, written for their renaissance consort, and their debut at the York Early Music Festival as finalists in the 12th Early Music Network Young Artists Competition. Click here to read reviews of recent performances, or on any of our faces to learn more about each of us! |
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