Tag: Kerry McCarthy

  • Ave Maria: Program Notes

    Ave Maria: Program Notes

    Josquin des Prez and Heinrich Isaac were two Renaissance composers with two quite different characters, in music and in life. We know what Isaac’s signature looked like because he dutifully signed the account books as a musical servant of the Emperor Maximilian. We know what Josquin’s signature looked like because he carved it (not at…

  • Cappella Romana singer Kerry McCarthy wins major award!

    Cappella Romana singer Kerry McCarthy wins major award!

    Cappella Romana singer Kerry McCarthy, a graduate of Reed College and Stanford University, recently returned to Portland, OR after 11 years of teaching music history at Duke University. She is known for her work on early English music, and has just been awarded the 2014 ASCAP Nicolas Slonimsky Outstanding Musical Biography Award for her book…