The Binchois Consort

The Binchois Consort is a British early music vocal ensemble founded in 1995 by Andrew Kirkman. Trained in the UK and USA, the conductor and choirmaster created several early music ensembles on period instruments and choirs before founding the group named after the composer Gilles Binchois, born around 1400 and died in 1460. Specializing in music of the late medieval and early Renaissance periods, The Binchois Consort was founded by singers Mark Chambers and Will Towers (altos), Chris Watson, Edwin Simpson, Matthew Vine and Nick Todd (tenors), Giles Underwood and Will Gaunt (basses). The fruit of Andrew Kirkman's research into 15th- and 16th-century sacred and secular music from England and continental Europe, The Binchois Consort's catalog of recorded works includes masses, motets and incidental music by Guillaume Dufay, Josquin des Prés, Antoine Busnois, Jacob Obrecht and others, as well as anonymous collections. In addition to its recordings for the Hyperion label since its inception, the group performs regularly in concert, and has received awards from the specialized press and the music industry. In 1999, for example, the British magazine Gramophone awarded Dufay: Music for St James the Greater the prize for Early Music Recording of the Year. In 2021, the album Music for the King of Scots: Inside the Pleasure Palace of James IV reached No. 2 in the UK classical music charts, and in 2024, Scaramella, featuring works by Jacob Obrecht, Antoine Brumel and Alexander Agricola, reached No. 10.

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