Biography
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Years Active
1995 – present (29 years)
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Founded In
Stockholm, Stockholm municipality, Stockholms län, Sweden
Starting in 1995 the Swedish Ensemble Villancico has toured more than thirty countries with its Early World Music repertoire - foremost Latin American baroque music and early music with links to the Nordic region. Founded and conducted by Peter Pontvik, Ensemble Villancico has presented hundreds of concerts in some thirty countries in Europe and Latin America in programs featuring the Early World Music, mainly the repertoire of the Latin American baroque and early music from the Nordic countries. The ensemble has performed in festivals such as Tage für Alte Musik Herne, Mozart Festival Augsburg, Festival Cervantino (Mexico), Prague Spring Festival, York Early Music Festival, Misiones de Chiquitos (Bolivia), Malta Baroque Festival and Vantaa Baroque Festival. It also has done international concerts on television and radio on repeated occasions and has released seven CDs.
Villancico has received the Ivan Lucacic Prize in Croatia, and its CD “Hyhyhy – the New Jungle Book of the Baroque” was nominated for the Swedish Grammis Recording Prize.
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