The Tallis Scholars

The Tallis Scholars were founded in 1973 by their director, Peter Phillips. Through their recordings and concert performances, they have established themselves as the leading exponents of Renaissance sacred music throughout the world. Phillips has worked with the ensemble to create the purity and clarity of sound which he feels best serves the Renaissance repertoire. It is the resulting beauty of sound for which The Tallis Scholars have become so widely renowned.

The Tallis Scholars perform in both sacred and secular venues, giving around 80 concerts each year. In 2020, Gimell Records celebrated 40 years of recording the group by releasing a remastered version of the 1980 recording of Allegri’s ‘Miserere.’ In 2023-24, as they celebrated their 50th birthday, the desire to hear this group in all corners of the globe was as strong as ever. They have now performed over 2500 concerts.

The 2024-25 season highlights include performances in Japan, the U.S., Paris, Dresden, Ravenna, Helsinki, London, as well as their usual touring schedule in Europe and the U.K. Previous highlights include their monumental project marking Josquin des Prez’s 500th anniversary, where The Tallis Scholars sang all eighteen of the composer’s masses over the course of four days at the Boulez Saal in Berlin in July 2022, and again in Utrecht in summer 2023.

Recordings by The Tallis Scholars have attracted many awards worldwide. A 2020 release that included Missa Hercules Dux Ferrarie was the last of nine albums in The Tallis Scholars’ project to record and release all Josquin’s masses before the 500th anniversary of the composer’s death. This recording won the BBC Music Magazine’s coveted Recording of the Year Award in 2021, as well as the 2021 Gramophone Early Music Award. Their latest Gimell release (2023) is of music by John Sheppard.