Grace Newcombe succeeds Kathleen Dineen in Basel
Following the retirement of Kathleen Dineen, Grace Newcombe will teach singing and ensemble work with a focus on medieval renaissance at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis from the fall semester 2024/25.
Grace Newcombe specializes in medieval and renaissance music. She performs throughout Europe and records with renowned medieval renaissance ensembles such as Ensemble Leones, Peregrina, Le Miroir de Musique, Ensemble Gilles Binchois, SchoEnsemble Dragma and Musicke & Mirth. She is the founder and director of the medieval ensemble Rumorum. As an instrumentalist, she has performed with medieval harps and Clavicymbalum can be heard.
Grace studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where she obtained a Master's degree with distinction in Early Music Vocal Pedagogy. Since then she has taught there regularly as a guest or substitute teacher for singing, Tudor and Elizabethan vocal polyphony, medieval vocal polyphony and Gregorian chant.
As a performer and teacher, Grace specializes in non-classical vocal techniques and currently also teaches voice training at the Institut Jazz in Basel. She wrote her doctoral thesis on performance practices for vernacular songs in thirteenth-century Britain. She uncovered previously unknown melodic and textual peculiarities of Middle English verse.
