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ABOUT US

Concordian Dawn, ensemble for medieval music, specializes in 12th- through 14th-century vocal repertoire, drawing on primary source material and focusing on socio-philosophical similarities between texts from centuries ago and the mindset of modern society. In doing so, the ensemble produces a musical experience accessible to contemporary audiences, relating the human condition of the past to the familiar experiences of the present. Concordian Dawn was founded in 2012 and performs regularly on the east coast, annually with Gotham Early Music Scene in NYC, and at venues across the country. The ensemble’s “mesmerizing” (Early Music America) debut album, Fortuna Antiqua et Ultra (MSR Classics), was released in December of 2021 to critical acclaim. In July of 2022, Cornell University Press published a collaborative book-recording project between the ensemble and medieval studies scholar, Sarah Kay, entitled Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera, and the ensemble’s “palpably enchanting” and “unforgettable” (Fanfare) second album based on this collaboration was released by MSR Classics in October of 2023. Concordian Dawn made its west coast debut in 2022 with the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival and at UC-Berkeley and UC-Davis. The ensemble, which received a 2020 Ensemble Forward Award from Chamber Music America, was a 2024 Artist-in-Residence at UC-Davis. Concordian Dawn and its director, Christopher Preston Thompson, have performed and led workshops and lectures for Princeton University, Stanford University, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, the Modern Language Association, the CUNY Graduate Center and the Medieval Academy of America, among others. Concordian Dawn is a fiscal project of Gotham Early Music Scene, Inc.

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UPCOMING Events

Le Roman de Fauvel
February 6th, 6:30pm
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library-New York Public Library, 455 Fifth Avenue, 7th Floor | NYC

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Chantepleure: Songs of Pain and Pleasure from Medieval France and Italy
February 25th, 5:30pm
Vassar College, 124 Raymond Ave. | Poughkeepsie, NY
Performance Venue: The Aula (Ely Hall)
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Carmina Burana(Co-production with Polyhymnia)
May 10th, 7:30pm
St. Ignatius of Antioch Church, 552 West End Avenue | NYC

Earlier this season

October 18th, Songs from Cangé and the Italian Trecento
St. Luke in the Fields
Church, 487 Hudson Street, NYC
 
October 19th, The MET Museum Fall Festival: The Rise of Painting in the Italian Trecento, 1300-1350
2:00/3:00/and 4:00pm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, NYC
 

December 18th, Veni Redemptor Gencium
7:30pm
The Church of the Holy Trinity, 3 West 65th Street, NYC

December 20th, Medieval Lessons and Carols
6:00pm
St. John’s Church in the Village, 218 West 11th Street, NYC

DISCOGRAPHY

OUR ARTISTS

CHRISTOPHER PRESTON THOMPSON

FOUNDER, TENOR, HARP

AMBER EVANS

soprano and percussion

MICHELE KENNEDY

SOPRANO

THOMAS MCCARGAR

baritone
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NICCOLÒ SELIGMANN

Vielle and Multi-Instrumentalist

DAVID DICKEY

countertenor and recorder

Andrew Padgett

bass-baritone

CLIFTON MASSEY

countertenor

JONATHAN WOODY

BASS/BARITONE
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KARIN WESTON

SOPRANO
GEMS
© 2017