Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
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The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) is a music academy and research institution located in Basel, Switzerland, that focuses on early music and historically informed performance. Faculty at the school have organized performing ensembles that have made notable recordings of early music. One of the more popular of these is the 1994 album Chill to the Chant.[citation needed]
Paul Sacher founded the school in 1933.[1] Influential faculty included August Wenzinger (cello and viola da gamba), Ina Lohr (violin), and Max Meili (vocal music). In 1954 the Schola merged with two other Basel music schools to form the City of Basel Music Academy.
Faculty
Among the school's other notable faculty members, past and present, are musicians from many countries. By nationality, they include:
- Australia: keyboardist and conductor Geoffrey Lancaster
- Belgium: countertenor and conductor René Jacobs
- England: lutenist and ensemble leader Anthony Rooley; soprano Evelyn Tubb; viola da gambist Alison Crum
- France: cellist and conductor Christophe Coin; flautist Marc Hantaï; conductor Dominique Vellard; fiddler Baptiste Romain
- Germany: flautist/recorder player and conductor Hans-Martin Linde; countertenor Andreas Scholl; tenor Gerd Türk; viola da gambist Veronica Hampe; lutenist Marc Lewon
- Italy: organist Lorenzo Ghielmi, organist, harpsichordist and conductor Andrea Marcon; harpsichordist Francesco Corti; viola da gambist Paolo Pandolfo
- Netherlands: cantor and conductor Jan Boeke; harpsichordist, organist and conductor Gustav Leonhardt; violinist Jaap Schröder; sackbuttist Charles Toet; cantor and gambist Henk Waardenburg; flautist, gambist and music therapist Wil Waardenburg.
- Portugal: lutenist and conductor Manuel Morais
- Spain: viola da gambist and conductor Jordi Savall
- Switzerland: violinist and conductor Chiara Banchini; violist da gambist and cellist Hannelore Mueller; baritone Kurt Widmer
- United States of America: bassoonist Donna Agrell, lutenists Hopkinson Smith and Crawford Young; cornettist Bruce Dickey; fiddler Randall Cook; and trumpeter Edward H. Tarr.
