Amuse is a 16-voice women’s ensemble founded by Lee Ryder in the fall of 2002 to bring music for
women’s voices to New York audiences. An often overlooked area of choral literature, this repertory comprises works written throughout the last 12 centuries by well-known composers, including many new contemporary works for written in the last 50 years.
Amor Artis is one of the first and foremost presenters in New York of lesser-known Baroque
masterpieces, Amor Artis has distinguished itself through authentic versions in style and setting. It has
achieved considerable recognition internationally through its many concerts and extensive discography, encompassing more than forty recordings.
Canticum Novum is now in its 34th season under the direction of its founder, Harold Rosenbaum. This
chamber choir has achieved both national and international recognition for its stylistic versatility, vocal
blend, and expressive range. The group has performed in all of New York’s major concert halls and
has collaborated with prominent New York area orchestras.
Cerddorion is a mixed chamber choir dedicated to outstanding performances of adventurous programs
that span the breadth of the choral repertoire from medieval polyphony to new compositions. As befits
its name (cerddorion is Welsh for “musicians”), the ensemble aspires to musicianship in the fullest
sense, using the human voice to explore and fulfill the expressive potential of the art.
Polyhymnia is a small ensemble of singers and instrumentalists focusing on historically informed
performance of sacred music from the courts and cathedrals of the Renaissance world. Director John
Bradley has been creating original editions of music for the ensemble to both preserve and reintroduce
choral masterworks of the Renaissance and early Baroque in ways that both entertain and elucidate.
Lionheart is one of America's leading ensembles in vocal chamber music, best known for its
interpretation of medieval and Renaissance a cappella music, with Gregorian Chant as the eystone of
its repertoire. The ensemble also collaborates with instrumental ensembles, dance companies, and contemporary composers.
New York Virtuoso Singers Founded in 1988 by conductor Harold Rosenbaum, the group has become
this country’s leading exponent of contemporary choral music with an emphasis is on commissioning,
performing and recording the music of American composers. NYVS has twice received the prestigious
ASCAP-Chorus America “Award for Adventuresome Programming of Contemporary Music,” and has
been given Chorus America’s “American Choral Works Performance Award.”
Tiffany Consort was founded in 2003 to bring together several of New York’s finest singers with the
intention of presenting virtuosic choral music from all periods, one voice to a part. The group’s main
interest lies in juxtaposing works of Medieval and Renaissance composers with those of more recent composers.
Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church is pleased to be home to several distinguished vocal ensembles. These ensembles-in-residence rehearse and perform in the church and, as part of their relationship with the parish, each year usually offer their vocal talents and perform the liturgical music at Solemn Mass on a week-day feast or at Choral Evensong on a Sunday evening. We are pleased that they all participate in our arts ministry.