We are memor, a duo devoted to the performance of early monophonic song. We are excited as much by the poetic and rhetorical intricacy of medieval lyric as by its musical substance. Striving to convey the timelessness and immediacy of the medieval poet’s conviction, emotion, and imagination, we invite our audiences to hear in this music both the echoes of a former world and the resonances of our own times.
We were awarded the Jury Prize at the International Van Wassenaer Competition of the 2023 Utrecht Early Music Festival. Our upcoming performances include a three-night literature and early music festival in Dobra, Austria (Klangraum Dobra) and a concert with the Erasmus Klingt festival in Basel, Switzerland. We have performed in various constellations with Per-Sonat (DE), Dialogos (FR), Ensemble Parlamento (CH), Rubens Rosa (CH), Contre le Temps (FR), Concordian Dawn (USA) and Trobár (USA), and in festivals and series such as ReRenaissance Basel (CH), Freunde Alter Musik Basel (CH), AMUZ (BE), and Utrecht Oude Muziek Seizon (NL). We are based in Basel, Switzerland.