The Marenzio Singers We are a vocal quintet whose principal aim is to explore the sacred and secular music of the renaissance and baroque. The ensemble is named after the influential Italian madrigal composer, Luca Marenzio (1553/4 - 1599). Marenzio was a major figure in the development of secular Italian vocal music and his nine books of madrigals were important in the development of later composers such as Monteverdi and the English madrigalists.