Schola Antiqua is a Spanish group devoted to the research of early music

Early music

Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...

 in general and Gregorian chant

Gregorian chant

Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical music within Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services...

 in particular. It's based in Madrid since its foundation in 1984.

The group has organized concerts in several places of Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

A pilgrimage is a journey or search of great moral or spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith...

, such as Jerusalem, Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 and Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.The city's Cathedral is the destination today, as it has been throughout history, of the important 9th century medieval pilgrimage route, the Way of St. James...

, as well as religious music concerts.

The group has collaborated with such well-known groups as La Colombina, Ensemble Plus Ultra, His Majesty’s Sagbutts and Cornetts, Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Ministriles de Marisas, La Grande Chapelle.

, the director and conductor is Juan Carlos Asensio Palacios, who studied in the Valle de los Caídos abbey choir, and now is a member of the Atêlier de Paléographie Musicale of the world-famous Solesmes Abbey  and Professor in the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Salamanca and also professor in the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya

Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya

The Catalonia College of Music is a music school in Barcelona, CataloniaThe School is located in Barcelona at L'Auditori, a performing arts center inaugurated in 1999 which also houses three concert halls and is designated as the site of a future museum of musical instruments...

.

Published reviews of recordings

Academic sources:
General sources:

• http://www.scholaantiqua.com/criticaspdf/scherzo092007.pdf Scherzo Sept 2007, in Spanish, on CD "Dicit Dominus"
• http://www.scholaantiqua.com/criticaspdf/L'education%20musicale06_2007.pdf L'education musicale, June 2007, in French, on CD "Visperas de Confesores" (Jose de Nebra)
• http://www.scholaantiqua.com/criticaspdf/fraternite%20evangelique04_2006.pdf Fraternite Evangelique, April 2007, in French, on CD "Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae" (T.L. de Victoria)

Published reviews of performances

Reviews of its performances have appeared in such general newspapers, as El Pais, and The Times

The Times

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• http://www.scholaantiqua.com/criticaspdf/scherzo052007_1.pdf Scherzo, May 2007, in Spanish, on its performance at Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca
  Cuenca, Spain
  -History:When the Iberian peninsula was part of the Roman Empire there were several important settlements in the province, such as Segóbriga, Ercávica and Gran Valeria...
  
   2007 (Spain
  Spain
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  )
• http://www.scholaantiqua.com/criticaspdf/scherzo052007_2.pdf Scherzo, May 2007, in Spanish, on a Concert about D.Scarlatti
  Domenico Scarlatti
  Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
  
   at Madrid
  Madrid
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   (Spain)
• http://www.scholaantiqua.com/criticaspdf/Alhajat-Beirut%2021032007.pdf Alhajat-Beirut (Lebanon
  Lebanon
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  ), V.O., 21 May 2007, about a Concert in Beirut
  Beirut
  Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...
  
   (Lebanon)
• http://www.scholaantiqua.com/criticaspdf/criticaOita.pdf Ōita
  Oita, Oita
  is the capital city of Ōita Prefecture located on the island of Kyushu, Japan.- Demographics and geography :Ōita is the most populous city in Ōita Prefecture...
  
  's Diary, Japan
  Japan
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  , October 2006, in Japanese, on a concert in that city.

These and many other references can be found at the group home page