A choir ( KWIRE; also known as a chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words is the music performed by the ensemble. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which spans from the medieval era to the present, or popular music repertoire. Most choirs are led by a conductor, who leads the performances with arm, hand, and facial gestures.
Nicolas Gombert was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most famous and influential composers between Josquin des Prez and Palestrina, and best represents the fully developed, complex polyphonic style of this period in music history.
Mateo Romero was a Belgian-born Spanish composer of Baroque music and master of the royal chapel.
Pierre de Manchicourt was a Renaissance composer of the Franco-Flemish School.
Ensemble Gombert is a chamber choir based in Melbourne, Australia noted for its pure intonation and historic approach to choral sound and style. The ensemble was founded and is conducted by musicologist and organist John O'Donnell in 1990. The group is named after Nicolas Gombert, whose music has largely been ignored in the centuries since his death, despite it having an exemplary reputation amongst his contemporaries.
Philippe Maria François Herreweghe, Knight Herreweghe is a Belgian conductor and choirmaster.
The Codex Las Huelgas is a music manuscript or codex from c. 1300 which originated in and has remained in the Cistercian convent of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas in Burgos, in northern Spain. The convent was a wealthy one which had connections with the royal family of Castile.
Jacobus de Kerle was a Flemish composer and organist of the late Renaissance.
Stephen David Layton is an English conductor.
Peter Phillips is a British choral conductor, musicologist and writer. He is the founder of the Tallis Scholars as well as Gimell Records. He has been the owner of the Musical Times since 1995.
Huelgas Ensemble is a Belgian early music group formed by the Flemish conductor Paul Van Nevel in 1971. The group's performance and extensive discography focuses on Renaissance polyphony. The name of the ensemble refers to a manuscript of polyphonic music, the Codex Las Huelgas.
Erik Van Nevel (1956) is a Belgian singer and conductor. He is the nephew of Paul Van Nevel.
Petra Noskaiová is a Slovak classical mezzo-soprano, active in the field of Baroque music.
Marius van Altena, born Marius Hendrikus Schweppe is a Dutch tenor. He was one of the pioneers of historically informed performance of Baroque and Renaissance music. He has also sung Baroque opera, worked as conductor and as an academic teacher.
Ars Nova Copenhagen is a Danish vocal ensemble based in Copenhagen. The ensemble specialises in the interpretation of the polyphonic choral music of the Renaissance and new vocal music.
Joep Franssens is a Dutch composer.
Victor Nees was a Belgian (Flemish) composer, choral conductor, musicologist, and music educator.
Et Lux is a classical and choral album by German composer Wolfgang Rihm recorded in February 2014 by the Huelgas Ensemble with the Minguet Quartett, conducted by Paul Van Nevel, and released on the ECM New Series March the following year.
Joël Suhubiette is a contemporary French choral conductor. In particular, he conducts the chamber choir Les Éléments which he founded in Toulouse and with which he received a Victoire de la musique classique in 2006 and the Ensemble Jacques Moderne in Tours.
