A chorister from the age of seven, Philip Cave has been involved with choral music all his life. He studied music at Oxford University with Simon Preston and was a founding member of the Tallis Scholars with whom he gave over 400 performances. He has performed, toured and recorded with the Hilliard Ensemble, The Sixteen, the Choir of the English Consort, the King’s Consort, and the Cardinall’s Musick.
As a soloist, he has performed under many celebrated conductors including Sir Adrian Boult, Leonard Bernstein and Sir Roger Norrington, at venues including the Beethovenhalle in Bonn and the Sydney Opera House. He has performed at the BBC Promenade Concerts in London, and has shared the concert platform with many distinguished musicians, including Sir Peter Pears, Sting and Sir Paul McCartney.
In 1991, Philip founded the vocal ensemble Magnificat, which specializes in the restoration and performance of neglected masterworks of the baroque and renaissance periods. The ensemble has toured and performed in England, Spain, Greece and the USA, and has made ten CD recordings, which have attracted much musical acclaim. Magnificat’s plaudits have included a Gramophone Editor’s Choice Award and top choice from the BBC for Tallis’s Spem in alium.
Active as a vocal and choral clinician and teacher, Philip has led many master-classes and workshops in the UK and USA. He holds a DMA degree from the University of Maryland, an MA from Oxford University and is a Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music, and of Trinity College, London, and an Associate of the Royal College of Music. A recipient of the 2004 American Musicological Society’s Noah Greenberg Award, and of the London Handel Society’s Byrne award for performances of the music of Handel, he is also an honorary Fellow of London’s Academy of St. Cecilia.
Chorworks Summer Workshop 2011 Faculty
Sally Dunkley
Sally Dunkley’s interest in 16th-century vocal music was established during her years as a student at Oxford University, where she sang with the pioneering group the Clerkes of Oxenford and studied with its director, David Wulstan. Since then, her career as a professional consort singer in the UK has developed hand-in-hand with continuing in-depth study of the music as editor, writer, researcher and teacher. She sings regularly with Philip Cave’s ensemble Magnificat, and is a founder member of the Sixteen; she also sang more than 1000 concerts with the Tallis Scholars, recording and travelling widely for more than 20 years, and appears with other groups including the Gabrieli Consort and Ensemble Plus Ultra.
Throughout her career Sally has pursued an interest in preparing performing editions from original sources, many of them recorded and some published by Mapa Mundi, the Church Music Society and Oxenford Imprint. As co-series editor (with Francis Steele) of the recently launched Oxford University Press series Musica Dei donum, she has found the ideal opportunity to put into print some of the insights afforded by her practical experience, a reviewer describing the result as ‘a 21st-century take on the performance edition…a superb edition edited sensitively with great thought’.
Sally is increasingly involved in sharing her experience, both through summer schools (as a regular faculty member with Chorworks in Washington DC, and in 2010 at Dartington with I Fagiolini), and workshops through the Sixteen as well as various Early Music Forums in the UK, and for the Company of Musicians at Sawston.
In 2004 Sally was the joint winner (with Philip Cave) of the Noah Greenberg Award, through the AMS, for her work on the music of Philippe Rogier.
Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek
In addition to her work with Anonymous 4 she has a reputation as a versatile and accomplished soloist, specializing in early and new music. She has appeared with many early music ensembles both in Europe and the US, including The Washington Bach Consort DC, The Bach Sinfonia, Carmel Bach Festival,St Thomas Church NYC, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity Lutheran NYC, Armonia Nova,The Folger Consort, Parthenia, and The Sixteen, performing Bach cantatas, The Magnificat and the St Matthew and St John Passions, Handel’s Messiah and Dixit Dominus and songs from the Elizabethan era for Parthenia’s acclaimed program WHEN MUSICK AND SWEET POETRY AGREE.
Jacqueline is also a voice teacher, with a thriving studio in NYC. In addition to serving as a Chorworks faculty member, she gives masterclasses and ensemble technique workshops and has given residencies at colleges all over the US, including SUNYOswego, University of Athens Georgia, Mannes School of Music NYC and Georgetown University DC.
Patrick Walders
Patrick Walders maintains an active career as a professional vocalist, music educator, clinician, and conductor. For seven years, he served as Director of Choral Activities at James Madison University, where he directed the award-winning JMU Chorale and Madison Singers, taught undergraduate and graduate conducting classes, and graduate Choral Literature.
As a professional baritone/countertenor, Patrick has been a member of the prestigious Westminster Choir under the direction of Joseph Flummerfelt, and has participated in recording projects with the American Boychoir School, The Folger Consort, The Choral Scholars, The National Cathedral, Orpheus, and New Jersey Symphony. In the Washington D.C. area, he is a member of Orpheus, a professional chamber choir under the direction of Philip Cave, The Washington Bach Consort, under the direction of J. Reilly Lewis. Highly sought for clinics, workshops, and festivals, he has conducted many events and honor choirs for middle schools, high schools, churches, and colleges throughout the United States.
At the end of the 2010-2011 academic year, Patrick will begin his work as Director of Choral Activities at San Diego State University.
