| Variations of Name | Choir of the Accademia Monteverdiana |
| Biography | In 1961 while Denis Stevens was Professor of Musicology at Columbia University he founded the Accademia Monteverdiana Inc. in the State of New York as a non-profit organisation. The aim of the foundation was to encourage and promote early and classical music, in particular that of Claudio Monteverdi, with publications, concerts and research. The inaugural concert took place that same year at the Bath Festival with Stevens and Yehudi Menuhin performing in the presence of one of the first AM trustees, Nadia Boulanger.
For the next forty years the AM produced several hundred recordings of music for different labels ranging from the medieval to Beethoven, many of which are still available through the websites Schola Antiqua and Baroque Music Club as cds. Concerts were given throughout Europe and America including such grandiose and hallowed settings as the festivals of Salzburg and Westminster Abbey. Research was co-ordinated via the cream of Professor Stevens' graduate students to produce publications and editions of early music which were discovered in various libraries and then brought to the public often for the very first time in the 20th century. |