Catamount Arts Welcomes the GrammyNominated Trio Mediaeval to St. Johnsbury

ST. JOHNSBURY — On December 10, as part of the KCP Presents Performing Arts Series. The Norway-based Trio presents a stunning program of medieval sacred music, folk music, contemporary Nordic jazz, and startling improvisation, both with and without instruments, for what the Guardian calls “a richly musical and imaginative encounter.”

Formed in 1997, Trio Mediaeval consists of original members Linn Andrea Fuglseth and Anna Maria Friman and, since 2018, Jorunn Lovise Husan. Their critically acclaimed first disc “Words of the Angel” (2001) launched the group into the elite circles of early music ensembles and introduced them to a broad international audience.

A typical Trio Mediaeval program combines their many varied strands of musical exploration: an historically informed performance of mediaeval sacred music, folk music (adapted and arranged by members of the group); contemporary Nordic jazz; specially commissioned works; and improvisation with or without instruments. Attracted by the trio’s unique sound, composers and performers have lined up to work with them, resulting in commissions and collaborations worldwide.

“The gig’s most sublime moments spread out in the room and transformed gracefully curling, semi-spoken beginnings into whirling polyphony over a stamping pulse,” raves the Guardian.

“Impeccably refined vocalism,” the New York Times concurs.

A 2005 collaboration with the Ensemble

Musikfabrik in Cologne featured the work “Shelter” by Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon and David Lang of the New York-based Bang on a Can composers’ collective. More recently the trio has collaborated with musicians and orchestras such as Arve Henriksen, John Potter, Sinikka Langeland Ensemble, Mats Eilertsen Trio, Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra.

Trio Mediaeval has toured extensively in Europe and USA, and has visited Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea, and most recently, Australia. The trio has been invited to appear on the most prestigious stages in the world, including Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Vienna Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center.

For tickets to see Trio Mediaeval at South Church in St. Johnsbury, Saturday, December 10, at 7 p.m., or to learn about additional live performances brought to you by KCP Presents, visit www.kcppresents. org or www.catamountarts.org. The KCP Presents Series is produced by Catamount Arts working in association with Kingdom County Productions and supported by generous local sponsors including Passumpsic Bank, The Autosaver, St. Johnsbury Academy, Kingdom Taproom and Table, Dover Ford, Jake and Cathie Wheeler, Moose River Lake and Lodge, and WSTJ and with grant funding from the Vermont Arts Council and the New England Foundation for the Arts.