Bruegel Consort is an early music vocal ensemble, founded in 2023 in Cambridge by Lilly Vadaneaux, focused on performing Renaissance polyphony with a special interest in little-known works. Several members of the ensemble sang together in Cambridge college choirs and in the Cambridge Early Music Consort, run by Edward Wickham and Matthew Gouldstone. Bruegel Consort gave its first concert in January 2023, of a selection of motets from William Byrd’s three publications of Cantiones Sacrae. Following the success of this initial concert, the ensemble went on to present programmes of music by Robert White and Tudor composer William Rasar.

 

Bruegel Consort was selected to perform at the 2024 Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe, where they presented William Rasar’s Missa Christe Jesu. The edition used for the Rasar mass was created by Nick Walters, one of the ensemble’s tenors, who transcribed the music from the original partbooks. Bruegel Consort was recently selected for the Stile Antico Ensemble Development Bursary 2024-26.