About Us: In Hora Sexta was born as a chamber choir in 2002. From the beginning our intention was to establish a dialog between ancient vocal music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods and contemporary music from the 20th and 21st centuries. As the vocal requir... moreIn Hora Sexta was born as a chamber choir in 2002. From the beginning our intention was to establish a dialog between ancient vocal music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods and contemporary music from the 20th and 21st centuries. As the vocal requirements of this aim are very important, we pay special attention to the musical and technical preparation of our programmes, in order to provide high quality performances.
Our repertory includes ancient and contemporary music and works from composers such as Claudio Monteverdi, William Byrd, Heinrich Schütz, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Thomas Tallis, Vicente Goicoechea, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Vytautas Miskinis, Zoltán Kodaly, Samuel Barber, Benjamin Britten, Astor Piazzolla and Marcos Leite.
In Hora Sexta has regularly taken part in the musical series of concerts organized by Madrid town council and other Spanish institutions since 2003. We have been on tour in Canarias, Barcelona, Valencia, Toledo or La Granja de San Ildefonso. We have also taken part in the Via Magna Festival, Tres Cantos International Contemporary Music Festival and in December 2011 we were invited to sing in the Festival Internazionale Corale di Musica Sacra in Cagliari, Sardinia.
One of the ensemble’s primary interests lies in deepening our knowledge of Spanish ancient music. Due to this interest, In Hora Sexta has investigated and performed Pedro Escobar’s (15th-16th century) Misa pro Defuntis for Ruta Quetzal’s cultural program in 2004 and later on Juan Vásquez’s Agenda Defunctorum.
In 2007 we collaborated with José Sierra, head of the Musicology department at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid to recover and perform Martín de Villanueva’s Misa de Nuestra Señora con el Canto Llano. This mass belongs to the manuscripts kept at El Escorial Monastery library, where Villanueva acted as chapel master at the end of the 16th century. Our aim in bringing this particular work to light was to recover a special singing style forgotten for a long time: it is the style of the alternatim masses based in post Council of Trent plainsong. We performed this mass for the first time in the Summer Courses given by Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and we recorded it in 2007 for the collection titled “Maestros de Capilla de El Escorial”, directed by José Sierra.
Continuing our research of the connections between ancient and contemporary music, we have prepared and performed programmes such as the one dedicated to the classical text “O Magnum Mysterium”, that spanned from Gregorian Chant to the world premiere of a dedicated work, all the way up to Victoria, Byrd, Poulenc, Martin Lauridsen and others.
In Hora Sexta has also been rewarded with several prizes: in 2003 and 2008 we won the first prize at the Religious Polifony Contest organized by the Archbishopric of Madrid. less
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