Red Priest

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Piers Adams – recorders
Julia Bishop – violin
Angela East – cello
David Wright – harpsichord

RED PRIEST is the only early music group in the world to have been compared in the press to the Rolling Stones, Jackson Pollock, the Marx Brothers, Spike Jones and the Cirque du Soleil. This extraordinary acoustic foursome has been described by music critics as ‘visionary and heretical’, ‘outrageous yet compulsive’, ‘wholly irreverent and highly enlightened’, ‘completely wild and deeply imaginative’, with a ‘red-hot wicked sense of humour’ and a ‘break-all-rules, rock-chamber concert approach to early music.’

Founded in 1997, and named after the flame-haired priest, Antonio Vivaldi, Red Priest has given several hundred concerts in many of the world’s most prestigious festivals, including the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Moscow December Nights Festival, Schwetzingen Festival, Prague Spring Festival, Bermuda Festival, and in most European countries, Japan, Australia, and throughout North and Central America. The group has been the subject of hour-long TV profiles for NHK (Japan) and ITV (UK) - the latter for the prestigious South Bank Show in 2005, which documented the launch of the Red Hot Baroque Show, an electrifying marriage of old music with the latest light and video technology.

In 2009 Red Priest launched their own record label, Red Priest Recordings, which is distributed globally by Nimbus. Over the last year, in addition to the group’s highly acclaimed recordings Priest on the Run, Nightmare in Venice, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Pirates of the Baroque, two solo recordings from the group’s cellist Angela East have also been released. Many more exciting projects are planned for the coming months including further solo recordings, a DVD of the Four Seasons and downloadable sheet music. For further details please visit www.redpriest.com

Sound Clips:

'Nightmare in Venice' - English Fantasy Suite

'Pirates of the Baroque' - Vivaldi Concerto Grosso in D minor

'Johann I'm Only Dancing' - Bach Preludio

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