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Cantores in Ecclesia Present the Twenty-Fourth William Byrd Festival, August 4-20 2023 The annual William Byrd Festival returns to...

Cross posted from ByrdCentral Dr Katie Bank is a music historian at the University of Birmingham and the creator of ByrdCentral. Katie...

Catch me on Radio 4 Sunday Worship discussing Byrd and Faith, presented by Jonathan Arnold, alongside Kerry McCarthy, David Allinson,...

Full programme and abstracts for the William Byrd at Lincoln Symposium

Dr Katie Bank is a music historian at the University of Birmingham and the creator of ByrdCentral. Katie has published scholarly books...

How close can we get to knowing what Byrd's Second Service might have sounded like in his day? One starting point for such an inquiry...

In 1588 as England faced the Spanish Armada Tudor composer William Byrd was fighting his own artistic battle: to persuade a country in...

3-4 July 2023, Lincoln Cathedral 2023 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd. Lincoln Cathedral was Byrd’s first known...

Dr Richard Rastall is Emeritus Professor of Historical Musicology at the University of Leeds.

Robert Quinney is Organist of New College, Oxford.

A collaborative complete sight-read performance of the Latin choral works of William Byrd to raise money for the Mags music fund.

This ByrdStory comes from someone with an unusually close historical and musical connection to the composer. The description for...

We are delighted to share some visualisations of Byrd's music by Stephen Malinowski (with additional scores forthcoming as a part of our...

Witness this extraordinary theatrical concert, which celebrates the 400 year legacy of William Byrd, one of England’s finest composers....

Sir James MacMillan is one of today’s most successful composers and performs internationally as a conductor. His musical language is...

Cousin choristers Danny & Thomas chat with infectious enthusiasm about their favourite piece of Byrd: the Advent introit Rorate caeli.

Patrick Dunachie is a countertenor in The King's Singers.

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd, Westminster Cathedral Choir will perform the entirety of his Gradualia,...

In this charming video, Roddy gives us a peek into his lifelong relationship with Byrd's music, starting with his boyhood as a chorister.

Harry Christophers shares a ByrdStory about his recent experiences with Byrd's 1611 songbook.