«The stonemasons gave the stones their form. We give them back their chant.»
Eight hundred years ago, Mestre Mateo and his collaborators built a monumental stone choir in Santiago Cathedral: architecture, sculpture and music brought together in a single liturgical space. The blow of the chisel against the granite was the chant they sought within the stone. That choir fell silent, but its idea lives on.
Coro Mestre Mateo carries that legacy forward and gives the stone back its voice: we turn into music the song that was already pulsing in the blow of the chisel. We are a professional vocal ensemble dedicated to performing sacred a cappella repertoire in churches, monasteries, cathedrals and other distinctive spaces, in the great polyphonic tradition of the Renaissance.
Santiago de Compostela, 2026
