Ex Luce ensemble
About Us
Through a common light and shared musical sensibility, the musicians of the Ex Luce ensemble, Ana Arnaz and Colleen Jennings seek to bring diverse sound worlds together in a single program surprising and enchanting the listener. By bridging early and contemporary music in their programming and putting art music side by side with traditional European and American repertoire, they bring to their audiences a most evocative and exquisite palette of colors and sounds.
Ex Luce is ultimately an expanding ensemble incorporating fine musicians to accommodate their chosen repertoire. While the Ex Luce musicians come from diverse nationalities and musical backgrounds, they share a common musical language unique to their ensemble. Their combined studies of early, contemporary, celtic and traditional Spanish music give them a breadth of experience. The unique programs presented by Ex Luce reflect this characteristic and are realized with expertise.
The group was founded in 2004 after an invitation to the Festival Les Melanges du Printemps in Dijon, France brought four musicians together. On this occasion French soprano, Anne Quintin and German violinist, Julia Schröder joined Colleen Jennings and Ana Arnaz to perform a program entitled Deux voix deux. Since their founding Ex Luce has presented on festivals in Germany, Spain, USA and France and premiered pieces written for them by composers such as Gail Jennings, Dominique Vellard and Baptiste Romain. Most recently they were resident musicians at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute in New Hampshire.
Repertoire
Early Music
Bel Accueil-Busnoys,15th century
Adieu, Adieu -Gilles Binchois, 15th century
Inperayritz de la Ciutat Ioyosa, from Llivre Vermell-14th century, Spain
O Virgo Splendens, from Llivre Vermell-14th century, Spain
Motet-Alma Parens/ O Maria/ Alleluia-14th cent, Anon
Motet-Plange Regni Res Publica/Tu qui Gregem/Aprehende Arma-Guillaume de Machau, 14th century Agnus Dei-Leonel Power, 15th century
In Principio Erat Verbum and Domine Pater-Francesco de Layole, 16th Century Florence
Ave Maria-Francesco de Layole, 16th Century Florence
Peccavi Super Numerum-Francesco de Layole, 16th Century Florence
Contemporary Music
Along The Field for Voice and Violin - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Blake songs for Voice and Oboe (arr) - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Four Song for Voice and Violin-Gustav Holst
Three Irish Country Songs for Voice and Violin-Rebecca Clarke
Choral Music for 3 Voices (arr for voice and 2 Violins) - Béla Bartok
Choral Music for 3 Voices (arr for voice and 2 Violins)) - Zoltan Kodaly
Duos for two Violins - Béla Bartok
Duos for Two Violins - Luciano Berio
Kafka Fragments, for Voice and Violin - Györg Kurtag
Remembrance Noise, for Voice and Violin - Györg Kurtag
Three Celtic Poems, for Voice and 2 Violins - Gail Jennings (b. 1947)
Changing Light for Soprano and Violin- Kaija Saariaho (b.1952)
Suite Española, for Voice and 2 Violins - Dominique Vellard (b.1954)
O Vos Omnes, for 2 Voices and 2 Violins - Dominique Vellard (b.1954)
Dum Sanctificatus Fuero in Vobis, for Voice and Violin - Alain Besson (b.1959)
Brave Wolfe, for Voice and 2 Violins - Baptiste Romain (b.1984)
Songs and Tunes
Black, Brown and White- Traditional from USA
Saeta- Traditional from Andalucia, Spain
Fraser's March - Alasdair Fraser, American fiddle tune
Waiting for the Dawn - Hanneke Cassel, American fiddle tune
She Does Not Know Her Beauty - Nina Simone