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Paul Hillier

    conductor
    Magnus Skrede

    Paul Hillier has been Artistic Director of Theatre of Voices since 1990. Founding director of the Hilliard Ensemble, and present Chief Conductor of Ars Nova Copenhagen, his career has embraced singing, conducting, and writing about music. His books about Arvo Pärt and Steve 
    Reich, and numerous anthologies of choral music, are published by Oxford University Press.

    He has taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz and Davis, and from 1996-2003 was Director of the Early Music Institute at Indiana University. In 2006 he was awarded an OBE for services to choral music. In 2007 he received the Order of the White Star of Estonia, and was awarded a GRAMMY for Best Choral Recording (with the Estonian Philharmonic  Chamber Choir).

    In 2008 he was appointed Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, and in 2009 was invited to form the new Coro Casa da Música in Porto, Portugal. He won a second GRAMMY in 2010 (with Theatre of Voices and Ars Nova Copenhagen), and in 2013 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog by Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark.

    • Carl Nielsen, Niels W. Gade, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Vagn Holmboe, Line Tjørnhøj

      Crossing Borders

      Grammy-winning Ars Nova Copenhagen and Paul Hillier continue to explore Danish vocal music – from Gade to Tjørnhøj

    • Dietrich Buxtehude, Heinrich Scheidemann, Christian Geist, Johann Christoph Bach, Johann Adam Reincken, Franz Tunder, Matthias Weckmann, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

      IN DULCI JUBILO – Music for the Christmas season by Buxtehude and friends

      A stimulating addition to the traditional Christmas repertoire by the Grammy award-winning Theatre of Voices and Paul Hillier

    • Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

      Green Ground

      A unique collection of works written for the Kronos Quartet and Theatre of Voices

    • Dietrich Buxtehude, Christian Geist, Nicolaus Bruhns, Kaspar Förster, Franz Tunder

      Buxtehude and his Circle

      Theatre of Voices offers a rare insight into the circle around Buxtehude

    • Bent Sørensen

      Snowbells

      Bent Sørensen’s atmospheric landscape of human voices and local church bells

    • Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

      Mixed Company

      A large-scale work cycle for chamber orchestra and singing voices, based on John Dowland’s Renaissance melody Flow my tears

    • Carl Nielsen, Friedrich Kuhlau, C.E.F. Weyse, J.P.E. Hartmann, Niels W. Gade, Thomas Laub, Peter Heise, Svend S. Schultz, Ib Nørholm

      The Golden Age of Danish Partsongs

      Paul Hillier’s interpretations of choral classics by among others Gade, Carl Nielsen and Weyse sung to perfection by Ars Nova Copenhagen

    • Bent Sørensen, Johannes Ockeghem

      Requiem

      Paul Hillier conducts Ockeghem’s famous Requiem from the 1400s, completed in our own time by Bent Sørensen. A uniquely beautiful encounter.

    • Jack Body, Anne Boyd, Liu Sola, Lou Harrison, Ross Edwards

      A Bridge of Dreams

      Unusua music from the Pacific Rim featuring composers and poets from China, Japan, California, New Zealand and Australia recorded by Ars Nova Copenhagen and Paul Hillier

    • Heinrich Schütz

      The Complete Narrative Works

      Box collection of Paul Hillier and Ars Nova Copenhagen’s highly acclaimed recordings of all of Schütz’s passions and narrative oratorios from the late Renaissance.

    • Heinrich Schütz

      Matthäus-Passion

      Paul Hillier and his Ars Nova Copenhagen conclude their series of early Baroque master Heinrich Schütz’ vocal treasury

    • Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

      The Natural World of Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

      Paul Hillier, a devoted admirer of Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, leads ARS NOVA through this extraordinary vocal performance

    • Dietrich Buxtehude

      Scandinavian Cantatas

      Grammy-winning ensemble Theatre of Voices and Paul Hillier in Buxtehude's rare works of his vocal music

    • Heinrich Schütz

      Die Sieben Worte; Johannes-Passion

      Another set of stunning Baroque works in the third volume of ARS NOVA's and Paul Hillier's now hailed Schütz series

    • Heinrich Schütz

      Weihnachtshistorie; Auferstehungshistorie

      Two Masterly examples of the Early Vocal Baroque with Ars Nova Copenhagen and Paul Hillier

    • Heinrich Schütz

      Lukas-Passion

      The intense rigour of Schütz’ music is in perfect hands with Paul Hillier

    • Klaus Ib Jørgensen

      Moon-pain

      Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa’s texts transformed into a major work of contemporary Danish music

    • Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

      Kronos plays Holmgreen

      The world-famous American Kronos Quartet plays three of Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s lush works

    • John Taverner

      Taverner & Tudor Music II

      Taverner’s monumental mass Gloria Tibi Trinitas and music by among others Tallis and William Byrd

    • Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

      Music is a monster (DVD)

      Jytte Rex’ portrait film of the composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen

    • Terry Riley

      In C

      The new “Copenhagen version” of the greatest masterpiece of minimalism

    • John Taverner

      Taverner & Tudor Music I

      John Taverner’s famous Western Wind Mass supplemented with other English music from the 1500s