Alison Bury

violin

Alison Bury started playing the baroque violin while a student at the Royal College of Music. After completing her studies there she won a Boise Scholarship to study at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Sandor Vegh and Nicholaus Harncourt. While in Austria she performed and recorded with Concentus Musicus of Vienna.

After two years in the U.S.A., where she led the Arts Musica Baroque Orchestra, she returned to London where she now plays with many ensembles, including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. With that orchestra she regularly appears as leader, soloist and director. Alison Bury is the leader of the English Baroque Soloists, with whom she has taken part in numerous recordings and toured in Europe, Australia, the U.S.A. and the Far East.

She has also appeared as a soloist with the Raglan Baroque Players on their visit to the Baroque Music Festival in Australia. Recent chamber music activities include performances of the Beethoven Septet with other members of the English Baroque Soloists and recitals with harpsicordist Nicholas Parle.

She coaches at the Early Music Wales summer school and is the director of the Baroque Orchestra at the Royal College of Music where she is professor of baroque violin.

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