Graduated in music and Russian at The University of Nottingham and The Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography; while studying there he became fascinated by early wind music
Classical Dulcian player
Musicologist (Musician and historian).
Tutor/Lecturer in Early Music at Cambridge and visiting Professor of Renaissance Wind at Royal College of Music. Teacher and Musical Director at Historic Royal Palaces and Shakespeare’s Globe
Aficionado in Renaissance and Baroque Wind instruments (Shawm, Dulcian, Rackett, Sackbut, Curtal etc...)
Has performed and recorded with many of the period instrument ensembles in the UK and abroad including The King’s Singers, The Harp Consort and The Sixteen