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RENMISSION:

To advance and invigorate the art of chamber music for tenor, baritone, and bass voices across genres and generations, through world-class performance, education, and collaboration; in New England and throughout the

United States.​

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Renaissance Men (RenMen) is a New England-based professional chamber ensemble dedicated to the advancement and invigoration of music for tenor, baritone, and bass voices across all genres and generations. Featured in The Boston Globe, RenMen has also been heard live on GBH Radio’s Boston Public Radio with Jim Braude and Margery Eagan and CRB Classical’s A Holiday Celebration with Metropolitan Opera tenor Lawrence Brownlee. Since its founding in 2014, RenMen has presented more than a decade of sold-out performances across the Eastern United States, including headlining appearances at Emmanuel Music, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the 56th National Convention of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in New Orleans.

 

RenMen has released multiple internationally acclaimed albums on Navona Records and its recently launched in-house label, RenMen Records. Its most recent full-length album, RenMentality, was co-produced by Grammy Award-winning Tyler Graham Chester (Madison Cunningham, Sara Watkins) and Alexander Venguer (Yo-Yo Ma, Gabriel Kahane) and, since its release in November 2024, has achieved bronze-level streaming numbers internationally.

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A champion of new music for low voices, RenMen has presented world premieres and commissions by globally renowned composers including Daniel E. Gawthrop, Sydney Guillaume, Hilary Tann, Patricia Van Ness, Jay Mobley, Charles Stacy III, Stuart Forster, and Tara Mack. RenMen is also a spirited collaborator; in 2023, the ensemble joined KAIROS Dance Theater and Sound Icon Sinfonietta for performances of Stravinsky’s Renard and selections from Orff’s Carmina Burana at Boston University, hailed by one critic as “the coolest thing I have seen all year.”

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RenMen is equally committed to community engagement, maintaining partnerships with Boston City Singers, Boston Children’s Chorus, and ZUMIX East Boston, while offering residencies and workshops with academic institutions and avocational choral ensembles throughout New England.

 

RenMen’s dynamic roster comprises some of the region’s most versatile vocal artists and is currently led by its founders: Artistic Director Eric Christopher Perry, Will Prapestis, Peter C. Schilling, and Anthony Burkes Garza.

 

For more information: www.renmenmusic.com

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Renaissance Men Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (TIN: 82-1719415) and we count on donors to support our programming. Give today to support our programming.