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Richard Campbell Viola da gamba
Richard Campbell is professor
of viola da gamba at the Royal Academy of Music in London and has been earning a living for 30 years from various activities
connected with 'early music' (having rejected equally dubious career prospects as a Latin teacher). He has: danced
a galliard for Channel 4 TV and a minuet in Bucharest, sung and played guitar and lirone with the Dufay Collective, written
sleeve-notes for recordings of Bach's church music for Deutsche Grammophon and other labels, organised the 'Tregye'
concerts in Cornwall during the 1980s and 90s, recorded tracks for albums by Nathalie Merchant, Kate Bush, Elvis Costello
and Ryuichi Sakamoto, created the role of the 'musician' in Garsington Opera's 2008 production of L'Incoronazione
di Dario, appeared as gamba soloist in Bach's Passions at the Proms, and with many UK and European orchestras (including
the LSO, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, CLS, and an ensemble assembled by Steven
Isserlis for the Cheltenham Festival) and played continuo cello in groups directed by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Harry Christophers,
Jeffrey Skidmore, Ton Koopman and the late Richard Hickox. He plays regularly at St Martin in the Fields with Martin Feinstein
and Catherine Manson, and in the field of chamber music is best known as a founder member of Fretwork with whom he has premiered
works by George Benjamin, Sally Beamish and Alexander Goehr, among many others.
Kinga Gaborjani Viola
da gamba
Kinga plays regularly with the English Baroque Soloists, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
and she is co-principal cellist of the English Touring Operas Baroque Orchestra. She is also an active member of several chamber
groups. She performs with the Four Temperaments, the ?st early music ensemble to be awarded a fellowship at the Royal Academy
of Music.She played at the Brighton Early Music Festival in 2007 with her ensemble Triologue and won the audiences prize at
the Fenton House Early Music Competition in 2008 with the Little Baroque Company.Her future engagements include further tours
with the English Baroque Soloists,English Concert, the Orchestre Revolutioannaire et Romantique, the Gabrieli Consort and
Players, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and the English Touring Opera.
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Jeremy Brooker Baryton
is one of the only performers in the world who currently specialises in the techniques of self-accompanied baryton
playing. This complex method of playing requires the left thumb to pluck a separate musical line on the sympathetic strings
which run underneath the fingerboard whilst simultaneously playing a different part on the bowed strings. He has been at the
forefront of a contemporary revival of interest in the instrument through his performances, broadcasts and publications and
has commissioned a number a new works from distinguished British composers. New Zealand, Hong Kong and throughout
the UK and Europe, and issuing two widely acclaimed CDs. www.barytonsociety.com
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