Amystis (ES)

Amystis was created by José Duce Chenoll in 2010 with the aim of sharing the passion for vocal and instrumental music from the Spanish Renaissance and Baroque. Since the beginning the group has combined musicological research with performing development, focussing its work in the recovery and dissemination of unpublished repertoire, composed by authors of Spanish origin throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. Fruit of this work are his three record productions distributed internationally by Brilliant Classics: Moratales que amáis, Joan Baptista Cabanilles complete vocal music; O Pretiosum, music to the Blessed Sacrament by Juan Bautista Comes y Ecos del Parnaso, Spanish Madrigals, the latter nominated in the prestigious ICMA awards for best music recovery work. With the purpose of recreating sounds lost in time, Amystis has kept faithful to historically informed practises, since the respect to the origin and following the original sources of each era, although reinventing and exploring new forms that may please an always new public. www.amystis.com

Ministriles de la Reyna (ES)

In 2011, Javier Martos Carretero founded the group of minstrels Ministriles de la Reyna, celebrating his first concert for the Embassy of Spain in Canada, on December 8, 2011 in Ottawa. Later, his director, Javier Martos Carretero, changes his residence, sharing his personal and work life between two cities in different countries, Córdoba (Argentina) and Valencia (Spain). This situation, between two continents, was resolved by creating two teams of “Ministriles de la Reyna”, one in America and the other in Europe. The name “Ministriles de la Reyna” has its origin in the minstrels that were part of the Chapel of Music created by Queen Isabel la Católica for the service of the Court, in which it brought together the most outstanding artists of the moment, both from voices like minstrels. The term "minstrel" refers to the person who serves in a certain office, and in this case, to the person who serves playing an instrument. It is made up of minstrel wind instruments, such as the Renaissance cornet, minstrel trumpet, shawm, sackbut, dulzian, orlo and recorder.