Les Canards Chantants

Les Canards Chantants is an American solo-voice ensemble performing renaissance polyphony.  Founded in York, England in 2011, since their debut the ‘Singing Ducks’ have gained a reputation for their daring theatricality, quirky music videos, humor, and for engaging with the most unusual repertoire from the Renaissance. They have appeared in concert with Piffaro, and just released the world premier recording of Giovanni Valentini’sSecondo libro de madrigali in collaboration with baroque string band ACRONYM.  Les Canards Chantants are based in Philadelphia, USA, where they are musical Ensemble in Residence at Glencairn Museum.

“The six-voice Canards are highly animated performers, playing off of each other with visual theatricality that bordered on mugging, but never at the expense of elegant vocalism…”
– The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Among the most impressive performances were those of Les Canards Chantants, which presented a brilliant and moving program of late Italian madrigals—this was some of the best Gesualdo and D’India you are likely to hear…”
– Early Music America Magazine

“The “Singing Ducks” instilled their superb performances with the liveliness and theatricality that were historically an important part of the madrigal tradition…”
– The Boston Musical Intelligencer