AMPERSAND is ellie sutherland, jacob perry, joseph hubbard, timothy parsons, Madeline Apple Healey, & Andrew Padgett.

Ampersand aims to provide a world-class vocal chamber music experience for our audience & participant artists, to breathe new life into the music of past centuries, & to provide a sonic backdrop for collective stillness & appreciation of beauty through innovative multimedia concerts & workshops.

By way of explanation, our core repertoire is 16th century vocal music, also known as Renaissance polyphony. Polyphony, from the Latin for ‘many voices’, is a style of musical composition utilized in Europe, & later in North America, from about 1200-1650. The compositions are crafted in a surprisingly non-hierarchical fashion, especially surprising given the historical backdrop of this repertoire — each individual vocal part is no more or less important than the others — a musical model of interdependence.

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  • Ellie Sutherland

    mezzo-soprano

    lover of movies, corn chowder, & walks in the woods. can often be found at book club or hanging with Anton, the most perfect semi-toothless tuxedo cat.

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  • Jacob Perry

    tenor

    gamer, great listener, paper-plate-award-winning most playful polyphony buddy. can often be found researching the best tech gear for your project & singing along to his trusty metronome.

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  • Andrew Padgett

    bass-baritone

    painter of miniatures, lover of beans-on-toast, hurdy-gurdy-man & calligraphist. can often be found at the playground living that dad life.

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  • Joseph Hubbard

    bass

    lover of franco-flemish polyphony, beverage expert, ensurer of a great hang. can often be found wearing the coolest sandals &/or in the crypt at the national cathedral.

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artistic team

  • soprano

    outdoorswoman, sparkle enthusiast, zucchini lover, & climber of rocks and mountains. can often be found on discord @uMadelineBro?


  • countertenor

    lover of wok cooking, petrichor, and pourovers. can often be found practicing the banjo, meditating, and nerding out about polyphony recordings

our history

Founded in 2014 by friends from music school, AMPERSAND presented four seasons of programming in New York City and Cleveland, OH, including collaborations with Holy Trinity Bach Vespers and Urban Playground Chamber Orchestra. After a several-year hiatus, some introspection, & a pandemic, we’re delighted to have gotten the band back together to make world-class vocal chamber music in Vermont.

We had our debut concert with a bunch of dear friends at the Old Round Church in Richmond in the summer of 2022 & are looking forward to seeing you & singing for you this year!

ampersand is a fiscally sponsored project of the Onion River Chorus & Fractured Atlas, two 501(c)(3) non-profit arts service organizations.
donations to ampersand are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law, and are made to Fractured Atlas which in turn passes your donation to us.

collaborators: Dominic Aragon. Melissa Attebury. Will Berman. Stephen Biegner. Aani Bourassa. Jonathan Cooper. Marc Day. Will Doreza. Robert Eisentrout. Elizabeth Eschen. Allie Faulkner. Fiona Gillespie. Sarah Hawkey. Margaret Carpenter Haigh. Nicolas Haigh. Robert Hansen. Catherine Hedberg. Christopher Jackson. Nickolas Karageorgiou. Timothy Keeler. Anna Lenti. Eva Lymenstull. Kate Maroney. Donald Meineke. Raymond Nagem. Nils Neubert. Eric Christopher Perry. James Reese. Gregório Taniguchi. Jonathan Woody. Matt Zucker.