Pandora’s Box is a trio which combines music of the late medieval and renaissance periods with contemporary composition, improvisation, poetry and physical theatre. They weave a subtle tapestry of words and music, poetry of love and intrigue from the courts, pilgrim routes and cloisters of medieval and renaissance Europe to gritty modern sound worlds. Since 2015 they have also developed a unique soprano, alto tenor & bass trombone quartet with Swedish virtuoso soprano trombone player Torbjorn Hultmark.
Pandora’s Box has performed throughout the UK and internationally, including the Edinburgh Festival, Galway Early Music Festival, Setubal Festival, Cumnock Tryst, and International Trombone Festival, California. The ensemble also featured as recording artists on John Kenny’s soundtrack to TNT Theatre Co.’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”
The members of the trio are:
Emily White: alto & tenor sackbut, trombone, baroque violin, voice
Miguel Tantos Sevilliano: alto & tenor sackbut, trombone, voice
John Kenny sackbut, alto, tenor & bass trombone, recorders, voice
Biographies:
Emily White is professor of trombone and sackbut at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and Wells Cathedral School. She is a member of The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble whose 16 discs include Classic FM disc of the month, BBC Choice, several Gramophone Awards and Diapason d’Or winners. She also plays principal regularly for Il Giardino Armonico in Italy. She loves the freedom that can be found in early music performance and contemporary music. Emily also plays baroque violin and is in the ground-breaking ensemble, In Echo, as a sackbut and violinist.
Miguel Tantos-Sevilliano is a former Principal Trombonist of the Navarre Symphony Orchestra and The Santiago Philharmonic Orchestra. As an early music specialist, he has worked with some of the world’s most prestigious ensembles including, English Baroque Soloists, The Sixteen, English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, Freiburg Baroque, the Academy of Ancient Music and Tafelmusik. He is also a member of the theatre troupe Wonderful Beast and has a particular talent for integrating music, acting and dance, which has led to extensive involvement in educational projects world-wide, including places like prisons, hospitals, schools, special needs centers.