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Dominique Visse

French countertenor Dominique Visse has participated in the first music revival in France since its inception. Although he became a chorister in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris at age 13, he pursued research on body organ and flute in the Versailles Conservatory. As an instrumentalist, he created a …

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David Skinner

American-born David Skinner visited Britain in 1987, where he became co-founder and co-director of 1 of this country’s greatest Early Music vocal ensembles. He visited Britain in 1987 to obtain his Professional of Music level at Edinburgh School and then went to Oxford School. He was a Place Clerk and …

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Richard Boothby

Richard Boothby performs viola da gamba music from the center Ages for this and is for the forefront of expanding the modern repertoire for the instrument. He researched efficiency practice with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Salzburg, after that founded the Purcell Quartet in 1984. In 1985, he became a founding person …

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Susanna Pell

Susanna Pell is definitely an excellent, outstanding English-born player of baroque violin and viol. She performs using the Dufay Collective and with Fretwork.

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Christopher Wilson

British lutenist Christopher Wilson analyzed with Diana Poulton in the Royal University of Music from 1970 to 1972, and performed his debut recital at Wigmore Hall in 1977. He offers performed and documented a remarkable selection of 16th and 17th hundred years music for single lute. He’s also a regular …

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Fretwork

One might question, upon initial hearing the name Fretwork, which the group involved is really a serious-minded viol sextet focusing on pre-Classical music off their local Britain; Fretwork might, in the end, sound similar to the name of the 1980s Euro-rock music group. But it is normally specifically that unpretentious …

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Parley of Instruments

Within the crowded discipline of period instrument groups, the Parley of Instruments distinguishes itself by concentrating on the repertoire for the first violin, from your Renaissance and early Baroque periods, and through the use of its understanding of this and seventeenth century vocal music to its performances of later on …

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Phantasm

PHANTASM, whose creator Laurence Dreyfus loves to spell its name in upper-case, is a consort of viols that is dynamic on both edges from the Atlantic since it is fifty percent American and fifty percent European in regular membership. Dreyfus was created in Boston, MA, and was raised in Philadelphia. …

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Lautten Compagney

Located in Berlin, the Lautten Compagney was founded being a lute duo by lutenists Wolfgang Katschner and Hans-Werner Apel in 1984. Since that time, a whole orchestra is continuing to grow up around its founders, but Lautten Compagney continues to execute being a duo every once in awhile. Nonetheless, they …

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