49th Chartres Festival
Sunday, August 13 at 4:30 pm: Ensemble Vox Cantoris
Sun. 6 Aug. / Évènements
During the three-year reconstruction of the cathedral’s great organ, the Association des Grands Orgues de Chartres continues to offer the public a series of concerts highlighting the richness of the vocal and instrumental repertoires, with a significant emphasis on works particularly suited to this renowned spiritual and cultural site.
The Association des grandes orgues de Chartres is organizing a concert as part of the 49th Chartres Festival on Sunday, August 13 at 4:30pm.
Ensemble VOX CANTORIS
Since its creation in 2000 in the Alpes-Maritimes region, the Vox Cantoris ensemble has focused its work on researching and implementing repertoires from virtually unexplored musical collections. In partnership with numerous musicologists, it aims to anthropologically study sacred music from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, rediscovering the now-forgotten expertise of the singers from those eras (direct reading from the original notation, singing from the lectern, ornamentation, collection of still-existing oral traditions, etc.).
The ensemble’s discography includes around fifteen works, all praised by critics (5 diapasons, 2 Clefs de Resmusica, 4 stars from Monde de la Musique, 3 nominations for the ICMA, etc.).
In 2022, the Vox Cantoris ensemble was a finalist for the REMA Awards in the category of extra-European musical programs.
Vox Cantoris is supported by the DRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, the Gironde Department, the French Institute, the Patrimonio Musical de la Nueva España association, as well as by the SPEDIDAM and ADAMI.
Works from the XVIe century.