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Artists · The King's Consort

The King's Consort is now represented in France by
Martijn E. Jacobus
IMPULSE ART MANAGEMENT
SUMATRAKADE 1039
1019 RD Amsterdam
Pays Bas
Office +31 20 626 6944
Mobile +31 6 5426 7717
martijn@impulseartmanagement.nl
www.impulseartmanagement.nl

THE KING'S CONSORT is one of the world's leading period instrument orchestras. Founded in 1980 by Robert King, The King's Consort and its equally renowned Choir of The King's Consort have toured in five continents and appeared in almost every European country, in Japan, Hong Kong and the Far East, as well as North and South America. With more than one hundred CDs in the catalogue, and more than one and a half million CD sales, The King's Consort is one of the world's most-recorded historical instrument orchestras.

For more than three decades The King's Consort has presented an adventurous variety of repertoire, spanning from 1550 to the present day, in many of the greatest European concert halls. Highlights have included seven appearances at the BBC Proms, performances of the spectacular Coronation of King George II, the Venetian reconstruction Lo Sposalizio, Bach's Mass in B Minor and St Matthew Passion and Mendelssohn Elijah widely across Britain and Europe, staged performances of Purcell The Fairy Queen in Spain and Britain, the opening concert of BBC TV's Purcell celebrations, and Mozart Requiem in the glorious Alhambra Palace in Granada. Other staged operas have included Handel Ottone in Japan and Britain, Handel Ezio at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and Purcell The Indian Queen in the historic theatre in Schwetzingen, Germany. Tours further afield have included concert and opera performances in Japan, Hong Kong and the Philippines, in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, and across the USA and Canada.

TKC's highly-acclaimed recordings have won many international awards and sold over 1,500,000 copies. The orchestra is especially regarded for its many recordings of music by Handel and Purcell, but its catalogue also includes instrumental and choral music by composers from Albinoni to Zelenka, including Bach Mass in B Minor, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle, and the massive Venetian reconstruction Lo Sposalizio. Twenty-five world-première recordings of Purcell's complete Odes, Solo Songs and Sacred Music established TKC as the world's leading performers of this composer's music. TKC is also renowned for its recordings of more than a dozen Handel oratorios and operas. Other CD projects include the much acclaimed Sacred Music of Monteverdi, ten volumes of Vivaldi's complete Sacred Music, a best-selling recording of The Coronation of King George, Handel's colourful Ode for St Cecilia, Michael Haydn Requiem (winner of BBC Music Magazine’s Best Choral Recording) and Mozart Sacred Music with soprano Carolyn Sampson.

TKC now records for the VIVAT label: an extravagant, critically acclaimed world-premiere recording of sacred music by Stanford and Parry was a Gramophone Awards finalist, and has been followed by discs of music by Couperin, Beethoven, Monteverdi, Handel, Purcell, Mendelssohn and, most recently, A Voice from Heaven.

In the world of Hollywood the Choir of The King's Consort feature in the sound tracks of Ridley Scott's epic The Kingdom of Heaven, and in The Chronicles of Narnia, Pirates of the Caribbean, Flushed Away and The Da Vinci Code.

Recently TKC has enjoyed major European tours of Bach St Matthew Passion, Handel Messiah and Bach Mass in B minor and The Coronation of King George, performed the Requiems of Mozart and Michael Haydn in Lucerne, Mendelssohn Paulus at Leipzig Gewandhaus and at Enescu Festival in Bucharest, Haydn The Creation at Flanders Festival, Handel Messiah widely across Europe, Finzi Dies Natalis and Britten Les Illuminations in Wigmore Hall and in France, Purcell The Fairy Queen, King Arthur and Dido and Aeneas in Theater an der Wien, Mendelssohn’s 1833 version of Handel Israel in Egypt at Leipzig Gewandhaus, alongside tours to Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland and Spain.

TKC’s websites are at www.tkcworld.org and www.vivatmusic.com

September 2016

The King's Consort Photo Taco Van Der Werf Small

Learn much more about The King's Consort and listen to numerous musical extracts on their website at: www.tkcworld.org

The Kings Consort Photo Keith Saunders Square Small
Photo by Taco van der Werf

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