OUR MUSICIANS
Rachel Brown flute and recorder
Adrian Butterfield violin
Oliver Webber violin
Clare Salaman violin and hurdy-gurdy
Rachel Byrt viola
Katherine Sharman cello and gamba
Cecelia Bruggemeyer double bass
Peter Buckoke double bass
Silas Wollston harpsichord and organ
LONDON HANDEL PLAYERS
Katherine Sharman, originally from New Zealand, won an Arts Council scholarship in 1983 to study in the UK and Europe. She travelled to London where she was taught by Tanya Prochazka, and also took part in master classes with Steven Isserlis in Deal and Prussia Cove. Her interest in early music performance practice took her to Europe and further lessons with several teachers including Anner Bylsma and Jaap ter Linden, and later, back in the UK, with Angela East and Jennifer Ward Clarke.
Katherine is now settled in Oxfordshire, from where she enjoys a busy career performing as continuo player and chamber musician with a wide variety of groups.
She has performed and recorded as continuo cellist with many orchestras, including the London Handel Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Gabrieli Consort and Players, the Kings Consort and the Academy of Ancient Music. She has also been involved with concerts and recordings of many and diverse chamber music projects, such as duos with fortepianist Geoffrey Govier, string quartets with the Adderbury Ensemble, and world-music projects with crossover group Orbestra. As well as modern and baroque cello, Katherine plays bass violin, bass viol and bass guitar.
OUR MUSICIANS
Rachel Brown flute and recorder
Adrian Butterfield violin
Oliver Webber violin
Clare Salaman violin and hurdy-gurdy
Rachel Byrt viola
Katherine Sharman cello and gamba
Cecelia Bruggemeyer double bass
Peter Buckoke double bass
Silas Wollston harpsichord and organ