The Artis Sonus vocals ensemble

PROGRAMME:
Anonymous (Codex Montecassino)
Intonent hodie/Adoramus te No 871 (arranged by Jacek Sykulsky)

Cyprian Bazylik, Jakub Lubelczyk
Dobrotliwość pańska

Claudio Monteverdi
The motet Adoramus te

Mikołaj Zieleński
The motet O Gloriosa Domina No. 56
The offertorium Desiderium animae eius (marking St Antonii Abbatis’s feast day) No. 9

Henry Purcell
Hear My Prayer, o Lord

Arvo Pärt
Bogoróditse Djévo
Most Holy Mother of God

Eric Whitacre, Charles Anthony Silvestri
Sainte-Chapelle

Anonymous
Anioł pasterzom mówił

Anonymous
Gaudete (arranged by Carl Jenkins)

Samuel Scheidt
Galliard Battaglia (arranged by Jacek Sykulski)

Orazio Vecchi
The madrigal Coppia real

Adrian Willaert
The villanelle Vecchie letrose (arranged by Jacek Sykulski)

Henry Purcell, John Dryden
Music for a While (arranged by Jacek Sykulski)

King Henry VIII
The ballade Pastime with Good Company (arranged by Ward Swingle)

Jim Papoulis
Imbakwa (arranged by Jacek Sykulski)

Eric Clapton, Will Jenings
Tears in Heaven (arranged by Jacek Sykulski)

Adele, Paul Epworth
Skyfall (arranged by Jacek Sykulski)

Brian May
Who Wants to Live Forever (arranged by Jacek Sykulski)

Ivan Larionov
Kalinka (arranged by Jacek Sykulski)

Attributed to Gioachino Rossini
Duetto buffo di due gatti (arranged by Jacek Sykulski)

Artis Sonus (“The Art of Sound” or “The Sound of Art”) is a vocals group from Poznań, founded at the beginning of 2014 by Jacek Sykulski, a conductor and composer. Sykulski asked singers who had been performing with him in the Academic Chorus of the Adam Mickiewicz University as well as the Poznań Boys’ Choirto collaborate with him. Artis Sonus began its activities by giving a concert during the 43^rd Poznań Musical Spring international festival of contemporary music, and its performance was very well reviewed. From then on, the ensemble has been developing dynamically and has taken part in numerous interesting music projects, such as a recording sessi on with the German reggae musician Gentleman (the pseudonym of Tilmann Otto) arranged by the project Gentleman–Symphonic and participating in music festivals (Music in Sandomierz and the International Festival of Boys’ Choirs). Artis Sonus has also recorded a CD with Krzysztof Krawczyk that contains Polish arrangements of songs by Leonard Cohen. The group’s repertoire comprises compositions of early, classical and contemporary music as well as arrangements of pop and rock songs. The artistic purpose of Artis Sonus is to develop an innovative approach to sound and its transformation.