Peter Holman (past Chairman and ex
officio Editorial Board member of Early Music
Performer)
Jeremy Burbidge (ex officio Publisher
of Early Music Performer and the Early Music
Yearbook)
Doctor Andrew Woolley (ex officio
editor of Early Music Yearbook)
Christopher Hogwood has been one
of the leading lights of the early music movement since the
1970s.
Link to Christopher Hogwood's web site.....
John Briggs is a freelance polymath. He is
essentially an amateur, with pretensions to musicology. His house is
filling up with string instruments which he can't quite play. He
sees his role on the NEMA Council as representing the informed
listener and consumer of Early Music, rather than the active
practitioner. After some months acting in the role he was elected
Deputy Chairman of Nema in November 2003.
Mark Windisch stumbled in to recorders
by accident when a friend lent him a bass and a tutor in 1958. After
attending evening classes in consort playing under John
Beckett's tutelage he felt that he had learnt a little. In 1980
after attending a recorder course which had an "early music" section
he saw some weird and wonderful windcaps and was hooked.
Then followed 15 years with Bernard Thomas in The Southwark Waits at
Morley College, graduating to sordunes and curtals. Following an
appeal from NEMA, Mark took on the Treasurer's role and before long
added the position of Administrator to his burgeoning portfolio of
voluntary activities.
John Bence, after 31 years teaching in
Secondary Schools and making and selling early musical instruments
in his spare time, is now working as a free-lance teacher of
harpsichord, organ and recorder. For 25 years he has led the
semi-professional early music group "The Longslade Consort", and he
is Festival Director of the Leicester Early music Festival.
John Bence has been Director of Music at St. Mary de Castro Church,
Leicester for the past 45 years. He has a passion for food and
"John's Page" on the Leicester Early Music Festival web site has a
monthly recipe, usually of his own devising. He has written for The
Times Educational Supplement, British Journal of Music Education and
the Musical Opinion.
He is Hon. Administrator of NEMA and a
member of NEMA Council.
Keith Bennett is the editor of the Early
Music Yearbook.
Richard Bethell started the recorder
after hearing Carl Dolmetsch's rhythmic, stylish and in tune
recording of Handel's A minor recorder sonata. Robert Salkeld at
Morley College knocked off Richard's rough edges. He earned a meagre
living from music for 2 years in the early 70s. He recalls playing
in an Ars Nova series at Fenton House, and serving up his own home
brew afterwards. (Just try to get away with that now
“licensing reform” has been enacted!)
He did recording sessions with Paul Lewis and others, played
crumhorn for Musica Reservata with David Fallows and Bernard Thomas,
cornett with Christopher Monk and contrabass shawm at outdoor gigs.
Now retired, he hacks away (sedately) at Domenico Scarlatti's
wonderful treasure trove on his Malcolm Rose harpsichord and has
dusted off his great bass shawm for occasional Waits events.
He organised Nema's Conference Singing 1500-1900: style,
technique, knowledge, assumption, experiment, which was
held in July 2009, in cooperation with the Music Department, University of York,
and the York Early
Music Festival.
Jeremy Burbidge, after lecturing in
higher education, took early retirement to run a small publishing
firm with Ruth, my wife, specialising in beekeeping and music. As
well as acting as publisher to NEMA we publish The Recorder
Magazine, Harpsichord & Fortepiano, Primary Music Today &
The Beekeepers Quarterly
David Fletcher is Chairman of the
Thames Valley Early Music Forum which he
helped set up in 1988. He is an enthusiastic cornettist, recorder
player and singer who makes music several times a week with groups
in London, Reading, Oxford and his home town of High Wycombe.
David is a member of the Nema Council and, as a
computer programmer by profession, he takes responsibility for the
data-processing involved in producing the NEMA
Yearbook.
Peter Holman studied at King's College,
London with Thurston Dart, and founded the pioneering early music
group Ars Nova while a student. He is now director of The Parley of Instruments and the
choir Psalmody, musical director of Opera
Restor'd and musical director of Leeds Baroque Orchestra. He is
a leading figure in the musical life of the Essex-Suffolk borders,
directing Essex Baroque orchestra and the annual Suffolk Villages
Festival.
He was joint Artistic Director with Paul O'Dette of the 1995 Boston
Early Music Festival. Peter has taught at many conservatories,
universities, and summer schools in Britain, Europe and the USA, and
was appointed Reader in Musicology at Leeds University in January
2000. He is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 3, and is much in
demand as a lecturer at learned conferences.
He spends much of his time in writing and research, and has special
interests in the early history of the violin family, in instrumental
ensemble music of the Renaissance and Baroque, and in English music
from about 1550 to 1850. He is the author of the prize-winning book
Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court 1540-1690
(Oxford, 1993), a much-praised study of Purcell's music (Oxford,
1994), and a book in the Cambridge Music Handbook series on
Dowland's Lachrimae (Cambridge, 1999). Peter was Chairman of Nema
until November 2003, and will continue to attend Council meetings as
a member of the editorial board of Early Music
Performer.
Bryan White studied at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas, Texas and at the University of Wales, Bangor.
He lectures in music at the University of Leeds, and is an active
performer, both as a soloist and choral singer, and as a choral
director.
Among his many musical interests are English opera, music for St
Cecilia's day, Michael Tippett, music editing, and performance
practice. Between the years 2002-2009 he served as editor of
Early Music Performer.
Doctor Andrew Woolley studied at
the University of Leeds, and in 2008 completed a Ph.D. on late
seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century English keyboard music,
supervised by Peter Holman. He currently works as a peripatetic
instrumental music teacher based in Nottinghamshire, and pursues
research whenever he can.
At present he is working with Peter Holman on an edition of
Restoration theatre suites for Musica Britannica. He is also a keen
performer, as a continuo harpsichordist and choral singer, and
enjoys playing Brahms and Debussy on the piano. Andrew takes over
the editorship of Early Music Performer in
2009.
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