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TENET Vocal Artists (Vocal Ensemble)

Founded: 2009 - New York City, New York, USA

Preëminent New York City-based early music ensemble TENET Vocal Artists (previously: TENET) celebrates its 11th anniversary season in 2019-2020. Under Artistic Director Jolle Greenleaf, TENET Vocal Artists has won acclaim for its innovative programming, virtuosic singing and command of repertoire that spans the Middle Ages to the present day.

|Highlights of recent seasons include performances of J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244), St. John Passion (BWV 245), J.S. Bach's motets, George Frideric Handel’s Messiah, a three-year cycle of Carlo Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories, regular performances of works by Purcell and his contemporaries celebrating St. Cecilia (music’s patron saint), two medieval survey series (The Sounds of Time and The Cycle of Invention), and original theatrical performances highlighting works composed by, for, and about women in 17th century Italy.

Renowned for their interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, TENET Vocal Artists' distinguished soloists have been praised for their pristine one-voice-to-a-part singing “to an uncanny degree of precision” (The Boston Globe). TENET's highly praised Green Mountain Project gives annual performances of Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 and other Vespers that have been newly reconstructed by the project’s musical director, Scott Metcalfe and include music by Monteverdi, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Giovanni Gabrieli, Antoine Charpentier, Michael Praetorius, and their contemporaries.

Performances of modern-day fare have included Arvo Pärt's Passio at Carnegie Hall in 2014, and a new commission by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw in 2015.

A driving force in cultivating the New York City early music community, TENET Vocal Artists collaborates regularly with other acclaimed ensembles and organizations including Blue Heron, Dark Horse Consort, Ensemble Caprice, Five Boroughs Music Festival, Quicksilver Baroque, New York Polyphony, The Sebastians, and many others.

TENET Vocal Artists performs regularly at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Caramoor, Columbia University, Yale University, and numerous other venues in and around New York City. Further afield, TENET Vocal Artists has performed at the Festival Casals de Puerto Rico, Berkshire Bach Festival, Connecticut Early Music Festival, Costa Rica International Music Festival, Montreal Baroque Festival, and many other festivals and prominent locations throughout the USA, Latin America and Europe.

Members of TENET Vocal Artists:

Sopranos

Altos

Tenors

Basses

Elizabeth Bates
Margaret Carpenter Haigh
Martha Cluver
Jolle Greenleaf
Madeline Healey
Laura Heimes
Anna Lenti
Molly Netter
Molly Quinn
Margot Rood
Teresa Wakim
Sarah Yanovitch

Luthien Brackett
Sara Couden
Douglas Dodson
Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek
Helen Karloski
Tim Keeler
Kate Maroney
Clifton Massey
Jonathan May
Reginald Mobley
Timothy Parsons
Elisa Sutherland
Virginia Warnken Kelsey
Geoffrey Williams
Debi Wong

Philip Anderson
Eric Dudley
Andrew Fuchs
Haitham Haidar
Lawrence Jones
Owen McIntosh
Jason McStoots
Donald Meineke
Scott Mello
Marc Molomot
Nils Neubert
Matthew Newhouse
James Reese
Jason Rylander
Stephen Sands
Aaron Sheehan
Gene Stenger

Jonathon Adams
Mischa Bouvier
Dashon Burton
Anicet Castel
Tyler Duncan
Charles Wesley Evans
Steven Hrycelak
Dominic Inferrera
Enrico Lagasca
Thomas McCargar
David McFerrin
Andrew Padgett
John Taylor Ward
Sumner Thompson
Paul Max Tipton
Jonathan Woody

Instrumentalists:

Violins: Robert Mealy, Scott Metcalfe, Johanna Novom, Adriane Post
Cellos: Ezra Seltzer
Viola da gamba: Emily Walhout
Viols: Andrew Arceci, Erin Headley [Bass], Steven Lehning, Lawrence Lipnik, Wen Yang
Oboes: Kathryn Montoya, Debra Nagy
Winds: Priscilla Herreid
Cornetts: Alex Opsahl, Doron David Sherwin, Kiri Tollaksen
Sackbuts: Greg Ingles, Mack Ramsey, Erik Schmalz
Theorbo: Charles Weaver
Lutes: Hank Heijink, Paul O'Dette
Harp: Maria Christina Cleary
Harpsichord: Jeffrey Grossman
Multi-instrumentalist: Shira Kammen




Sources:
TENET Website
Elisa Sutherland (2019-2010 material)
Contributed by
Aryeh Oron (January 2016, April 2024); Elisa Sutherland (July 2019)

Jolle Greenleaf: Short Biography | Ensembles: TENET Vocal Artists
Bach Discography:
Recordings of Vocal Works

Links to other Sites

TENET (Official Website)
Tenet NYC (Vocal Ensemble) ON Facebook
TENET NYC (Early Music America)
Metropolis Ensemble | Renderings: TENET


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