Hear it Live!

9 June – A Ground in the Air

Music Gallery Performance Space

A programme of music from England and Europe dating from around 1500 played on the Italian viola da gamba by the world-renowned violist, Alison Crum. Accompanied by her husband on the lute, Alison will play instrumental works as well as settings of vocal music. While some of the compositions are based upon famous madrigals and airs of the time, others are written over repeating bass lines (known as grounds) such as the still well-known Passamezzo.

Alison Crum is well-known as a player and teacher of the viol. She has travelled to every continent giving recitals and lectures, and teaching on summer schools and workshops. She has made over one hundred recordings with many of Britain’s finest ensembles, and as a soloist.

Alison is President of the Viola da Gamba Society and a visiting teacher at several colleges and universities in Europe and the USA. She has written two books on playing the viol, and has been called the doyenne of British viol teachers.

Roy Marks played piano as a child and, later, lead guitar later in a rhythm and blues band; but he chose to study art—studies culminating at London’s Royal Academy. Much later, Roy turned his attention exclusively to Early Music: editing, arranging, and composing for friends.