The Hampshire Consort (Nicolas Orovich, Paul Merrill, John Rogers, and Robert Stibler) is one of New England's leading early music ensembles. Founded in 1979 as the resident early music ensemble at the University of New Hampshire, the Consort specializes in Renaissance music on early brass instruments, bringing to modern audiences the unique sound of cornetto and sackbutts. Just as sixteenth century musicians did, members of the Consort "double" on other instruments, including recorders, krummhorns, cornamuse, flutes, shawms, gemshorns, pipe and tabor, trumpets, psaltry and percussion, making Consort programming a bright tapestry of Renaissance tone colors. More than an early music group, the Hampshire Consort also plays music by twentieth century composers, as well as arrangements of modern popular music.
The Consort has recently released a CD -- Cities, Courts and Countryside: Secular Music of the Renaissance Circa 1500. For information on the Consort and its availability for concerts and workshops or the place an order the the Consort's CD, contact:
Dr. Robert Stibler
Department of Music
Paul Creative Arts Center
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824.