In 1992, a group of friends wanted to sing together. They started gathering in one another’s homes to make music while they shared the artistic values that fed into what musica intima has become today: a collective that fosters human connection through vocal music.
Throughout its history, musica intima has embraced music of all genres. From the works of renaissance composers like Palestrina, Josquin and Lasso to the baroque masterworks of Bach, Handel and Vivaldi, early music has been a critical part of musica intima’s artistic output, collaborating with conductors and directors such as Ivars Taurins, Marc Destrubé, and Alexander Weimann - and most recently, Cree composer Andrew Balfour has re-occupied this music in his [...]
In 1992, a group of friends wanted to sing together. They started gathering in one another’s homes to make music while they shared the artistic values that fed into what musica intima has become today: a collective that fosters human connection through vocal music.
Throughout its history, musica intima has embraced music of all genres. From the works of renaissance composers like Palestrina, Josquin and Lasso to the baroque masterworks of Bach, Handel and Vivaldi, early music has been a critical part of musica intima’s artistic output, collaborating with conductors and directors such as Ivars Taurins, Marc Destrubé, and Alexander Weimann - and most recently, Cree composer Andrew Balfour has re-occupied this music in his groundbreaking project, NAGAMO.
Equally at home with contemporary classical music, musica intima has recorded music of minimalists Tavener, Pärt and Górecki, as well as groundbreaking composers, including Ana Sokolovic, Jocelyn Morlock, and Julia Wolfe. Of special note is our long-standing relationship with the music of influential Estonian composer Veljo Tormis— throughout the ensemble’s history we have continually returned to Tormis’ music, culminating in the release of Forgotten Peoples in 2006.
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