Tina Chancey
Tina Chancey is a multi-instrumentalist specializing in early bowed strings from the rebec and vielle to the kamenj, renaissance fiddle, violas da gamba and pardessus de viole.
Early life and education
Chancey received her Bachelor's in Music and MA in performance from New York">New Spain">New York, her MA in Musicology from New York University, and her PhD in Musicology from the online Union Institute.
Career
Chancey performed with The Folger Consort and started Hesperus, an early-traditional ensemble, with Scott Reiss in 1979.
Chancey is a specialist on the pardessus de viole, and received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to support solo performances on the pardessus de viole at the Kennedy Center and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Chancey has written articles for publications such as Early Music America Magazine, as a book reviewer.
Chancey has also been a member of the Renaissance-Rock group Blackmore's Night. Her stage name with them is "Tudor Rose."
Discography
Hesperus, Tina Chancey and Scott Reiss
Food of Love - Renaissance instrumental music from the British Isles. My Thing is My Own-Bawdy songs from D'Urfee's Pills to Purge MelancholyDancing Day - Early and traditional Christmas music from around the world. Baroque Recorder Concerti - Concertos by Telemann, Vivaldi, Graupner, Naudot, and Babel featuring Scott Reiss as recorder soloist.Spain in the New World - renaissance and baroque music from Old and New SpainCeltic Roots - with Bonnie Rideout and William Taylor Luminous Spirit -Chants of Hildegard von Bingen with Rosa LamoreauxI Love Lucette - 16th c. songs from the French secular theater, featuring Jane Hershey, Howard Bass and Rosa Lamoreaux Unicorn - Early/Traditional Crossover with Bruce Molsky and Bruce HuttonNeo-Medieval - Scott Reiss, Grant Herreid, Tina ChanceyThe Duo Guersan--Tina Chancey and Catharina Meints on two five-string pardessus de viole.Early American Roots- British ColonialPatchwork- Reprint of For No Good Reason at AllColonial America-More British ColonialThe Banshee's Wail--Scott Reiss, medieval and Irish fusion with Glen Velez, Zan McLeod, Tina ChanceyFêtes Galantes - Music for various numbers of pardessus with Joanna Blendulf, Annalisa Pappano, Tina Chancey, Catharina Meints, John Mark Rozendaal and Webb Wiggins
As producer
Vivat Rex!: Sacred Choral Music of Jean Mouton. Suspicious Cheese Lords, 2008