David Skinner is known primarily for his combined role as a researcher and performer of early music, and is Fellow and Director of Music at Sidney Sussex Collage, Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Music. He teaches historical and practical topics from the mediaval and renaissance periods.
David is director of Alamire, a consort of some of the finest singers in the UK who specialize in historical performance, commercial recordings, and sountracks for film and television.
From 1989 to 2004 he was co-artistic director of the award-winning ensemble The Cardinall's Musick, with whom he had produced more than 25 recordings.
As a record producer he has been involved with a number of award-winning projects (including two Gramophone Awards and three runners up, Diapason d'Or, Deutche Schallplatten, and a Grammy nomination).
He has also served as academic advisor and music editor for a number professional vocal ensembles, including the Hilliard Ensemble, Tallis Scholars, The Sixteen, and several collegiate choirs in Oxford and Cambridge.
From 1997 to 2001 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy at Christ Church, Oxford (where he was a Choral Scholar from 1989 to 1994), and was the Lecturer in Music at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 2001 to 2006. At Cambridge he conducts the Choir of Sidney Sussex College, with whom he has toured and made professional recordings.
David has published widely on music and musicians of the early Tudor England, and his most recent projects include the collected works of Nicholas Ludford (Early English Church Music, 2003 & 2005) and The Arundel Choirbook (Duke of Norfolk: Roxburghe Club, 2003).
See. www.alamire.co.uk
David Skinner
