Alison Bury

violin

 

Alison Bury has played with most of London’s leading period instrument orchestras. She trained at the Royal College of Music, furthering her studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Sandor Vegh and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. During this time she worked with Concentus Musicus Wien.

She is a founder member and regular leader of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and has appeared with them frequently as

a soloist and director, notably in a series of tours of the UK, Europe and the USA with Cecilia Bartoli.

For over 20 years she led the English Baroque Soloists, performing all over the world and recording much of the Baroque and classical repertoire including Mozart operas. As a participant in Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in 2000 she has recorded many of the violin obbligati in those works.

She has also appeared as guest leader by the Mahler chamber Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. She regularly performs in concerts of chamber music with colleagues from the OAE and has given recitals with harpsichordists Maggie Cole, Nicholas Parle and Malcolm Proud.

(Updated September 2009)

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