Who's Who
Artistic Director/Musical Director: Peter Holman
Director of The Parley of Instruments,
the choir Psalmody, the vocal ensemble Seicento, the Essex Baroque orchestra and
the Suffolk Villages Festival, he is also a regular performer and radio broadcaster.
Peter has taught at many conservatories, universities, and summer schools in Britain, Europe and the USA and is Reader in Historical Musicology at Leeds University.
He regularly contributes to scholarly journals and has published many editions of
early music. He has been joint Artistic Director of the Boston Early Music Festival,
and is Director of Hyperion Records English Orpheus series. His special interests
are the early history of the violin family, instrumental ensemble music of the Renaissance
and Baroque, and English music, from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century.
He is the author of a prize-
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tel Management: +44 (0) 207 613 4495
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Email
peter@parley.org.uk
Website http://www.parley.org.uk
Artistic Director/Stage Director: Jack Edwards
Originally trained as an actor and
designer Jack Edwards has worked in the field of Baroque opera for twenty-
For the Boston Early Music Festival, USA he has directed Purcell's King Arthur, Luigi
Rossi's L'Orfeo and Cavalli's Ercole Amante which transferred to the Utrecht Early
Music Festival. The Boston production of L'Orfeo was also presented at the 18th century
theatre in Drottningholm, Sweden and shown on Swedish television. He directed Caldara's
Dafne in Chile for a national tour and returned in 2000 to direct Dido and Aeneas
and take up a residential post at the Instituto de Musica de Santiago. As an actor
he has performed over one hundred anthologies of poetry and music with many of the
leading early music ensembles. He holds a teaching post in Theatre Studies and movement
at the Drama Studio London.
Tel/FAX: +44 01206 760 210
Associate Designer: Robin Linklater
Trained in theatre design at the Wimbledon School
of Art in the early '60's and worked in a number of theatres and at a variety of
jobs including painter, prop maker, costume maker and designer. He has been involved
with the majority of the company's productions, either as designer or supervising
student designers from the Theatre Design course at Nottingham Trent University,
where he has been teaching for 30 years. In 1997 he designed Rossi's Orfeo for The
Boston Early Music Festival and Drottningholm. In 1999 he designed Cavalli's Ercole
Amante for Boston and Utrecht. In 2000 he designed Monteverdi's Orfeo for Vancouver
and in 2001 he will be designing Lully's Thesée for Boston. He is trying (unsuccessfully)
to spend more time painting and exploring the possibilities of puppet opera. His
work in progress can be seen on www.theatrelink.co.uk and past work on www.designlink.co.uk.
Assistant Musical Director: John Flinders
Read music at the University of York, and
studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and with Dorothea Law and Mary
Peppin. His career encompasses many branches of the music profession: chamber music,
song recitals, teaching, coaching, repetiteur work and the preparation of singing
translations of opera libretti. He has performed with musicians such as Jill Gomez,
William Bennett, Colin Lawson, Victoria Soames, Laurence Perkins and Jon Anderson,
and given concerts in Japan, Turkey, and North and South America as well as in many
European countries.
Manager, Caroline Anderson
Contact for all aspects of company administration including
finance, publicity, marketing, tour management and auditions.
Tel: +44 020 8870 7649
Fax: 020 8516 6313
e-
54 Astonville Street, London SW18 5AJ
Technical Director, Peter Milne
Contact for all technical operations including production
management and touring technical and stage management.
Tel and FAX +44 020 8672 6540
e
mail: milnep@cwcom.net
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