Enter to win tickets to Stile Antico’s performance of In a Strange Land: Elizabethan Composers in Exile  presented by Early Music Vancouver, March 5 at the Chan Shun Concert Hall at the Chan Centre.

Stile Antico has firmly established themselves as one of the world’s most accomplished and innovative vocal ensembles. The British ensemble has thrilled audiences throughout Europe and North America with their fresh, vibrant, and moving performances of Renaissance polyphony. With an extensive and award-winning discography on the Harmonia Mundi label, their bestselling recordings have earned accolades including the Gramophone Award for Early Music, the Diapason d’or de l’année, the Edison Klassiek Award and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, and have twice received Grammy® nominations.

In an exciting and original concert, Stile Antico explores several of England’s most talented Elizabethan composers, including Philips, Dering, and Dowland, who chose a life of exile abroad in support of the old Catholic religion. Those Catholic composers who remained in England – chief amongst them William Byrd and Robert White “expressed their spiritual exile in music of astonishing intensity and emotional impact.”

“Anything but antique…their sound has the urgency and freshness you get from young voices, and an amazing rhythmic vitality.” – The Daily Telegraph