The trademark of the Boston ensemble of three women (plus vocal and instrumental guests) is combining medieval repertory and contemporary compositions in bold conceptual programming.

   The ensemble made its debut in 1995 with a performance at Jordan Hall of Steve Reich's "Tehillim," which The Boston Globe deemed "a knockout."  The Desert News commented on its recent appearance in "Tehillim" at the Colorado Symphony's celebration of Mr. Reich's 70th birthday "...an extraordinary vocal quartet...Singing in lovely, impeccably delivered harmony or in effortless, mind-boggling, complex counterpoint, the women of Tapestry delivered the Hebrew psalm texts in stirring fashion." 

   Critics have hailed its rich distinctive voices, its "technically spot-on singing" and emotionally charged performances. Tapestry has appeared throughout the United States and in Canada; engagements abroad include the early music festivals of Utrecht and Maastricht, Regensburger Alte Musiktage, Donne in Musica, Jubilee Festivities for the Millenium in Rome, and the Flanders Festival of Ghent and Brussels. Upcoming will be tours to Latvia and Russia, including a performance at the Moscow Conservatory, and to Brazil.     

   Tapestry recorded three CDs for Telarc. Of its first release for the German label MDG "Sapphire Night", which combines music by Hildegard von Bingen with "Nine Order of Angels" by Boston composer Patricia van Ness, Fanfare said  "a strikingly accomplished vocal ensemble". The Suedwestfunk that featured the recording had this to say: "Medative, ecstatic and ethereal sounds, surprisingly clear and beautiful as offered by Tapestry. This ensemble remotely reminds one of the art of the Bulgarian women’s choirs. They differentiate themselves from other singers in the medieval genre by their sound. They blend as well together as, for instance, Anonymous Four, but Tapestry’s sound is not as soft, but more in relief, more metalic, and in expression somewhat more earthy. The vocal ensemble masters its repertoire so brilliantly, that this old and spiritual sound must enchant the listener...In short: a pleasure!"