Location

Herefordshire, Hereford, the Marches

Specialisms

I run workshops, community choirs, ensembles. I specialise in Renaissance music (16th/17th century).

Additional information

I am an experienced choir master and workshop leader with thirty years experience.

Growing up in Germany with its rich tradition of sacred choir music, I had my first own choir at school at the age of 15. I  sang with  Leonhard-Lechner Kreis Renaissance Ensemble, with the Göttinger Kammerchor, and later  in the Frank Zappa a capella rock ensemble “Die Beistelltische”.

These days I perform with my wife Heather as “Arcadian Voices”, singing mz own arrangements of madrigals for two voices and guitar, most recently in 2023 at the Willow Globe in Llandridnod Wells,  where we made the music for a Shakespeare storytelling performance.

I was involved with community choirs in Sussex and Kent, and recently covered Leominster Community Choir while their MD was on maternity leave. 

I strongly believe that everybody can sing, and that singing should not be exclusive to a minority who has been given access to reading music.  There is nothing as beautiful as the sound of unaccompanied voices singing in harmony, and it is central to community building.

My family moved to Herefordshire in 2020,  and I have been running Renaissance Music Workshops at the Steiner Academy Hereford.  I love early music, and I would love to see it shared and sung more often.

My latest project is a monthly Renaissance Ensemble based in Hereford.

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