Meet the players

Our core players are:

Actor Peter Luke Kenny appears with MDD in the programme 'All the World’s a Stage'

Diane Terry (baroque violin, baroque viola and viola d'amore; orchestral manager)
A music graduate of Nottingham University, Diane Terry studied the baroque violin with Simon Standage at the Royal Academy of Music. She records and plays regularly with leading period instrumental ensembles including Collegium Musicum 90, the St James Baroque Players, the Academy of Ancient Music and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She is principal violinist of the Baker Collection, Midland Baroque and Hertfordshire Classical Orchestra. She is Visiting Lecturer in baroque violin and viola studies at Birmingham Conservatoire.

Wendy Hancock (baroque flute, recorders; artistic director)
Wendy Hancock is a music graduate of Exeter University, who gained an M.A. in the Interpretation and Editing of Renaissance and Baroque Music at Nottingham University, and continued her research into 17th-century English music for an M.Phil. For ten years she was editor of Chelys, the journal of the Viola da Gamba Society. In Nottingham she founded the Holme Pierrepont Opera Trust for the performance of Baroque opera on period instruments. She now performs widely, writes and edits, and also teaches part-time for Nottingham University, and on the International Recorder Summer School at Mechelen. She has recently recorded two CDs of Elizabethan music for The Gift of Music label (playing Renaissance flute, recorder and treble viol), and two with Musica Donum Dei (playing recorder, tenor viol and Baroque flute): Ring a Ring A Roses, and For the Love of Shakespeare. She also plays with the trio Galliarda.
Wendy plays recorders by Anthony Arnold

Michael Sanderson (baritone voice and baroque violin)
Michael Sanderson graduated in music from Nottingham University in 1986. After three years singing as a lay-clerk at St.George’s Chapel Windsor, he sang as a soloist with the baroque opera company Opera Restor’d. He performed with the company at the Edinburgh, Leeds and Utrecht Early Music Festivals, and recorded the CD of Lampe’s opera Pyramus and Thisbe. Michael now performs with several chamber groups specialising in the early music repertoire, which include Musica Donum Dei and Café Mozart. Last year, he began a project with the guitarist Ian Gammie to record the classical repertoire for voice and guitar. The first CD is of the songs of the Irishman Thomas Moore. Michael combines his singing career with the part-time post of Head of Student Music at Brunel University. His series of song recitals there have included German Lieder as well as programmes of French, American and English song.

Michael Overbury (harpsichord and organ)
Michael Overbury won a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he read music. Since graduating he has been Assistant Organist at New College, Oxford, and Deputy Organist and Choirmaster at the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Albans. After winning first prize in the 1982 Manchester International Organ Competition he has appeared twice as soloist at the Royal Festival Hall, London, and has continued to play with numerous choirs and orchestras, including Sinfonia Viva, Orchestra of St John's, Smith Square and Milton Keynes Chamber Orchestra, and has featured on several recordings including three solo discs. He is Director of Music at Worksop Priory, Nottinghamshire, and the Director of Music of the Nottingham Boys Choir.

Julia Black (baroque violin, baroque viola and viola d'amore)
Julia Black studied baroque violin at the Royal College of Music and Koninklijke Conservatorium in The Hague, with Catherine Mackintosh and Lucy van Dael respectively. She has performed and made recordings with a variety of ensembles here and in Europe including the Gabrieli Consort and Players, Fiori Musicali Bremen, and the Academy of Ancient Music.

Peter Luke Kenny has worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Coventry Belgrade, New Triad, New Palace Theatre Co. Orange Tree, Playboard Puppets and Border Crossings. He has toured for the British Council to Shakespeare festivals in Jordan, Syria and Zimbabwe. His most recent tour for the BC was A&BC’s celebrated production of The Tempest, to the Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, the Gdansk Festival in Poland, Hong Kong, Trinidad and Milton Keynes! He was a member of the BBC Radio Drama Co. ‘94-’95. Recent TV includes Sir Charles Mordaunt in Scandalous Women for the BBC, At The White Bear, Peter Twombly in Bastardz! by Ned Cox, and First Elder and Partisan in the British premiere of The Card Index by Tadeusz Rosewicz. Recent theatre includes Cromwell in Henry VIII as part of the RSC’s Complete Works season. He is a founder member of the early music group Passamezzo with whom he recorded a CD, Gallimaufry, in 2006 - visit www.passamezzo.co.uk

This page last updated 8 December 2009

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