Cut Circle is an award-winning vocal ensemble directed by Jesse Rodin. Founded in 2003, Cut Circle specializes in music of the long fifteenth century—Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Okeghem, Josquin des Prez, and their contemporaries. The ensemble is the recipient of the Noah Greenberg Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to historical performing practices (American Musicological Society); the Prix Olivier Messiaen (France); Editor’s Choice (Gramophone, UK); and a Diapason d’Or (France).
As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Cut Circle publishes recordings, gives concerts and lecture-recitals, and organizes workshops, masterclasses, and musical feasts. The ensemble performs internationally, with recent or upcoming appearances in the United States at the San Francisco Early Music Society and Stanford Live, and in Europe for the Fondazione Guido d’Arezzo (Arezzo, Italy), the FloReMus Festival (Florence, Italy), the Early Music Season (The Netherlands), the Tage Alter Musik (Regensburg, Germany), Laus Polyphoniae (Antwerp, Belgium), and Musica Sacra (Maastricht, The Netherlands).
The ensemble’s latest release is the second disc in a cycle devoted to the complete works of Josquin. Cut Circle records for the Belgian label Musique en Wallonie.
This repository contains the Cut Circle website, presenting the ensemble’s artists, recordings, videos, performances, reviews, auditions, and Community Feasting Project. It also connects visitors with scores from the Josquin Research Project.
The website is built with Jekyll. It uses Markdown and YAML front matter for content, Liquid templates for page rendering, and static CSS and JavaScript.
_artists/— current artist biographies and profile metadata_recordings/— albums and individual recording pages_events/— concerts, workshops, and other events_videos/— video features and performance pages_reviews/— press quotations and reviews_feasting/— Community Feasting Project contributions_data/— structured site-wide data, including navigation and former artists_layouts/— page templates for each content type_includes/— reusable interface componentsassets/— images, audio, stylesheets, JavaScript, and fontscloudflare/— secure Contact and Subscribe submission Worker, Google Form setup notes, and notification scriptscript/check_site.py— checks generated pages for broken local references and basic structural issues- Top-level Markdown and HTML files — principal pages and collection archives
search.json— generated search-index template_config.yml— Jekyll configuration, collection definitions, URL settings, and layout defaultsGemfileandGemfile.lock— Ruby dependency definitions
Generated and local-development directories such as _site/, .jekyll-cache/, and vendor/ are not tracked.