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Alison Bury baroque violin

is a founder member and regular leader of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and has appeared with them frequently as a soloist and director, notably in a series of tours of the UK,
Europe and the USA with Cecilia Bartoli.

For over 20 years she led the English Baroque Soloists, performing all over the world and recording much of the Baroque and classical repertoire including Mozart operas. As a participant in Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in 2000 she has recorded many of the violin obbligati in those works.

She has also appeared as guest leader by the Mahler chamber Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. She regularly performs in concerts of chamber music with colleagues from the OAE and has given recitals with harpsichordists Maggie Cole, Nicholas Parle and Malcolm Proud.

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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Richard Campbell 1955 -2011 Viola da gamba

Richard Campbell was professor of viola da gamba at the Royal Academy of Music in London and in the field of chamber music is best remembered as a founder member of Fretwork. He played with the Amphion Consort on a few occasions and will be greatly missed.


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