Pamela Thorby | recorder

Pamela Thorby is unique amongst recorder players in the breadth and variety of her work and can be heard on numerous recording of music ranging from the medieval period to the present day. She has toured internationally an concerto soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player and appeared many times at major UK …

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Katy Bircher | flute

Katy Bircher is established as a specialist of early flutes and, as such, has worked with most of the UK based early music groups in repertoire ranging from Dowland to Wagner. Katy has played concertos with the Kings Consort, La Serenissima, Fiori Musicali, Florilegium, the Hanover Band and Concerto Caledonia …

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Sally Bruce-Payne | mezzo-soprano

Sally Bruce-Payne was born in London, living first in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey, where her father was assistant organist. She began her musical studies as a cellist but after graduating from Bristol University she studied singing as a postgraduate at the Royal College of Music, London, where she won …

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Gareth Deats | cello

Gareth obtained a first-class honours degree in music from University of Southampton, where he was awarded the Peter Evans prize for outstanding performance. He studied cello with Paul Cox and then completed a postgraduate course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied Baroque cello with Anthony …

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Thomas Dunford | Theorbo

Born in Paris in 1988, Thomas Dunford discovered the lute at the age of nine, thanks to his first teacher Claire Antonini. He completed his studies in 2006 at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris (CNR). Thomas continued his studies at the Schola Cantorum in Basel with Hopkinson Smith, and participated …

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