Sacred Music in Early Colonial Mexico: Context, Style, and Performance

C. JANE GOSINE is a musicologist on the faculty of the School of Music at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. She studied violin as a Junior Exhibitioner at the Guildhall School of Music, London, and then continued her music studies at the University of St Andrews, and at Cambridge University, where she completed a Master’s Degree, a doctorate and then held a Research Fellowship. Jane’s principal research interest is the sacred music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) and his French contemporaries. She is also interested in the music of 16th-century England, and a range of issues related to performance practices. She has worked as a consultant with early music groups in Europe and North America, including devising concert programmes, writing programme notes, and advising on issues related to performance practices. She has been commissioned by several ensembles to produce new performing editions of Charpentier’s music. During the past year, Jane’s research activities have included working with ensembles such as the Yale Schola Cantorum (USA), Tafelmusik (Canada), and Concerto delle Donne (UK), contributing articles to Early Music and Eighteenth-century Music, and writing programme notes for the Aldeburgh and Edinburgh international festivals.

LEON CHISHOLM, a native of St. John's, Newfoundland, graduated with a B.Mus. (Hons.) from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2003. While a student at MUN, he studied organ with Ki Adams and prepared a graduating essay on the subject of 17th-century Roman oratorios under the supervision of Jane Gosine. After completing his degree at MUN, Leon entered the graduate program at Arizona State University where he recently finished a master's degree in organ under the tutelage of Kimberly Marshall. In July 2004, Leon participated in a study trip led by Dr. Marshall to Guanajuato, Mexico, where he and other graduate students studied some of the region's oldest Iberian-style organs and gave several public recitals in an effort to promote these unique and historically important instruments. While a student, Leon completed additional studies at Oberlin Conservatory's Baroque Performance Institute where he studied organ with Patrick Allen and harpsichord with Lisa Goode Crawford and Webb Wiggins, and at the Göteborg International Organ Academy in Sweden where he studied organ with Hans Davidsson, Jacques van Oortmerssen and William Porter. He is formerly the organist at Christ the Redeemer Lutheran Church in Phoenix, Arizona.