February 2023
Concert with Alamire at St. Martin in the Fields: Anne Boleyn’s Songbook
When Anne Boleyn went to her death, one of the treasured possessions that she left behind was a music book: a collection of songs of love, sorrow, faith and joy by the finest composers of her day, with which she and her circle could beguile the passing hours. David Skinner’s early music choir Alamire recorded the Songbook in 2015 (a “lovely collection”, in the words of Gramophone) and tonight it lives again with a semi-staged performance including the letters between Henry…
Find out more »Bel Fiore: Jacob Heringman solo lute recital at the Barber Institute, Birmingham
Jacob Heringman, lute Bel Fiore: music from the Casteliono Lute Book (1536) This recital will be the first performance of a new programme, continuing in the series of projects dedicated to particular historically significant lute manuscripts and printed books. Previous projects in this series included The Siena Lute Book and Jane Pickeringe's Lute Book © Piotr Lysakowski (2021)
Find out more »March 2023
LuteFest at Benslow Music
The Lute Society's annual LuteFest takes place at Benslow Music this year from the 9th to the 12th of March. With a group of our finest performers/teachers assembled, it's a unique opportunity to soak up all things lute for a few days.
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July 2023
Cambridge Early Music Renaissance Summer School
‘A store housse of treasure’ John Baldwin’s Commonplace Book: a personal collection of exquisite taste A store housse of treasure: this booke maye be saiede: of songes most excelente: and the beste that is made… Singer-scribe John Baldwin, renowned for the beauty of his penmanship, was evidently also a man of excellent musical taste. In his personal Commonplace Book, begun around 1580, he collected a wide variety of English music, sacred and secular, from Taverner and Tye to Thomas Morley. He probably knew William Byrd well, and held him in the highest…
Find out more »August 2023
concert with Alternative History, Peñíscola (details to be confirmed)
John Potter, Anna Maria Friman, Ariel Abramovich, and I (collectively, Alternative History) are delighted to be back in Spain for a concert on the 9th of August 2023. I will confirm time and venue as soon as possible.
Find out more »December 2023
Concert with The Swan Consort for Wye Valley Music
On 10 December, at St. Briavel's Church, I very much look forward to performing a special Christmas concert for Wye Valley Music with The Swan Consort directed by the amazing Anita Datta.
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