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Keynote Speaker: Prof Christopher Marsh (Belfast) University of Birmingham Wednesday 25 June 2025 “Recreation” had a variety of potential...

While Stile Antico was in the Northeast this March for their concert at Newcastle Cathedral (and 'Reasons to Sing' Family Concert), some...

Keynote speaker: Professor Peter Mancall (USC) Hosts: Tom Cutterham, Katie Bank, Simon Smith The early modern period was pivotal in the...

Stile Antico/the Byrd Central team commissioned composer and writer Kerry Andrew to create a piece with a text inspired by Byrd's...

Alan Brown, PhD (Cantab), LRAM, FRCO, was born in London in 1941 and was for thirty-three years successively Lecturer, and then Reader,...

Call for Papers: Nature and Environment in Early Modern Worlds Organisers: Tom Cutterham, Katie Bank, Simon Smith 24-25 June 2024,...

1st - 2nd July 2024, Linnean Society, London Click Here to Register The period 1485-1688 has been heralded as a ‘Golden Age’ for English...

Harpsichordist Friederike Chylek's specialism is English keyboard music of the 16th and 17th centuries. Her three solo recordings, Time...

Over the last six months, members of Horizon Voices have been delivering our hybrid music education and wellbeing project, Byrd: Reasons...

Katherine Butler and I co-edited a special 'cluster' of Early Music on the recreational music of Byrd and Weelkes for their 2023...

edited by Samantha Bassler, Katherine Butler, and Katie Bank. Out now in e-book and hardback from Clemson University Press.

The first collected edition of new Byrd scholarship since 1992.

Born in Liverpool, tenor Nicholas Mulroy was a chorister at the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral before studying Modern Languages at...

Today, 20 October, harpsichordist Friederike Chylek releases her latest album, "Tallis - Byrd - Gibbons" with OehmsClassics.

1st - 2nd July 2024 | Linnean Society of London, Burlington House The period 1485-1688 has been heralded as a ‘Golden Age’ for English...

Ross W. Duffin is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus and Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music Emeritus at Case Western Reserve...

Roxanna Panifnik b.1968 ARAM, GRSM(hons), LRAM studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music and, since then, has written a wide...

Katie from Byrd Central joins Andrew Carwood, DoM at St Paul's Cathedral/hand waver of the Cardinall's Musick, hosted by the lovely...

Byrdland or 'Nobody wants a flowery organ voluntary' featuring me (Katie!) and Andrew Carwood, DoM at St Paul's Cathedral and hand waver...

I am teaming up with my partner, conductor/baritone Will Dawes, to bring a workshop for singers on 2023's other death-day boy, Thomas...