cantoLX

Vocal ensemble

The Luxembourg-based professional vocal ensemble cantoLX was created in 2010 on the initiative of Camille Kerger, composer and director of the European Institute of Choral Singing (INECC), and its present artistic director Frank Agsteribbe, Belgian conductor, harpsichordist and composer, who is also artistic director of the baroque orchestra “B’Rock”.

The repertoire of cantoLX is mainly focused on Early Music in a variable ensemble: a group of 8 solo singers forms the nucleus of the ensemble expanding to a group of up to 40 singers for later 19th century and contemporary music. As such, cantoLX can present itself as an ensemble of soloists, as a chamber choir, or as a symphonic choir.

Still very much in its infancy it has already performed madrigals by Luca Marenzio, Leçons de Ténèbres by François Couperin and Joseph Hector Fiocco, as well as Eastern European baroque composers Frantisek Tuma (Stabat Mater) and Jan Dismas Zelenka (Responsoria), at prestigious venues like the Luxembourg Philharmonie or the Neumünster Abbey.

In November 2010 the ensemble set in motion its cycle of Girolamo Frescobaldi’s lyrical music with a highly acclaimed concert of his “Arie Musicali, libro primo” – which is to be continued at the MAfestival Bruges with the second volume of “Arie Musicali”.

cantoLX has also been invited to perform at the Utrecht Festival for Early Music at the end of August. In October 2011 the symphonic choir will perform Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem with the OPL (Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra) directed by Emmanuel Krivine at the Luxembourg Philharmonie.