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"The audience was ravished..."—Munstersche Zeitung
"The trio's use of original instruments is superlative and Morrison's voice shines above them." —Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
"Technically faultless lute and renaissance guitar playing." —Solinger Tageblatt
"A rollicking good show." ."—Lute Society News
Pantagruel has forged a reputation as one of the most exciting and innovative early music ensembles performing today. By delving into the very depths of Renaissance culture their semi-staged performances unearth the archetypal and timeless quality of this music. Hannah Morrison's pure and sweet voice combined with the lilting citterns, gitterns, lutes, and flutes of Dominik Schneider and Mark Wheeler bring to life the passionate music of a distant age.
Pantagruel, the hero of a 1532 novel by Francois Rabelais, maintained the motto "do, what thou wilt," and is a fitting name for an ensemble dedicated to exploring innovative methods of performance and presentation. Combining painstaking musicological research with their experience in classical music, rock, jazz, theater, and dance, Pantagruel's performances push the envelop of classical concert conventions by using Renaissance practices of medley, improvisation, and gesture.
Recent Pantagruel performances have included concerts at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Munster Baroque festival, and collaboration with Andrew Lawrence-King (Harp Consort, Hesperion XX).
Their debut CD Elizium breaks boundaries to produce an album of painstaking authenticity, with a structure and intensity that
Artist Bios
Hannah Morrison (Voyce)
The daughter of Scottish and Icelandic musicians, it was in the Netherlands at the Musikhochschule Maastricht that she gained her BA, studying with the soprano Barbara Schlick. She has received further inspiration during master classes with Anthony Rooley, Evelyn Tubb and Andrew Lawrence- King.
Dominik Schneider (Flutes, Gittern & Voyce)
From an early age he began to play every instrument he could get his hands on, but finally ended up studying the recorder at the Folkwang Musikhochschule in Essen and later renaissance and baroque traverse flutes at the Cologne Musikhochschule.
Mark Wheeler (Lutes, Cittern & Gittern)
Born in Wordsley/England, he discovered his passion for plucked string instruments while listening to Led Zeppelin. His lute studies with Nigel North at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London have been complemented by master classes, with amongst others Jakob Lindberg & Julian Bream.
bears comparison with the concept albums of 70's rock bands such as Pink Floyd. Elizium is set in Elizabethan England at the court of the Faerie Queene Elizabeth I, whose influence in modern pop culture can be seen in Tolkiens' Elven Queen Galadriel.
