Thursday 15th March 2012, 7-9 pm

St Paul’s Knightsbridge Church Hall

77 Kinnerton Street, SW1X 8ED

Join the Renaissance Singers for an evening of music, wine and conversation -  the first in a new series of ‘Meet the Artist’ evenings where eminent figures in the field of early music talk about the high points of their career and share some of the music that has featured most significantly on the way. Soprano Sally Dunkley is our first special guest and will be interviewed by Alistair Dixon, conductor of Chapelle du Roi and former Chairman of the Renaissance Singers.

Sally's interest in 16th-century vocal music was established during her years as a student at Oxford University, where she sang with the pioneering group the Clerkes of Oxenford and studied with its director, David Wulstan. Since then, her career as a professional consort singer in the UK has developed hand-in-hand with continuing in-depth study of the music as editor, writer, researcher and teacher.

She has played a significant part in the Tallis Scholars over 1000-odd concerts and was there in the very first concert given by the Sixteen. She continues as a regular member of that group, along with Philip Cave's ensemble Magnificat, and the Gabrieli Consort.

Throughout her career she has been involved in preparing performing editions from original sources, many of them recorded, and some now published in the recently launched Oxford University Press series Musica Dei donum. Sally is often busy behind the scenes as programme consultant, and is increasingly involved in sharing her experience through summer schools, workshops and lectures.

Places are strictly limited and must be pre-booked.

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