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Keble Early Music Festival
I’ll be at lecturing at Oxford University for the Keble College Early Music Festival on 1 March this year. This is fast developing to be a really significant part of the early music calendar in Oxford. To heckle, tickets and program are available here: https://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/events/kemf-2025/ Slightly flummoxed by the generous write-up that they have given…
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Associate Conservator, The Bate Collection
I’m delighted to have been asked to become Associate Conservator of Stringed Instruments to the Bate Collection at the University of Oxford. http://www.bate.ox.ac.uk. Illustrated is the fragment of a violin by Jacob Rayman from 1641 that is in the collection, long thought to be the oldest dated English violin in existence. Coincidentally I know of…
