Anthony Rooley
Anthony Rooley (born June 10, 1944 in Leeds ) is an English lutenist, guitarist and music teacher. He is a specialist in early music and founded the ensemble The Consort of Musicke in 1969 .
Life
Anthony Rooley studied classical guitar with Hector Quine at the London Royal Academy of Music , where he also taught lute and classical guitar from 1969 to 1971. At the same time, together with the American lutenist James Tyler, he founded the instrumental ensemble The Consort of Musicke , which focuses in particular on ancient English music and has been its artistic director ever since. The ensemble, which mostly also worked with vocal soloists such as Evelyn Tubb and Emma Kirkby , mainly presented secular music of the late Renaissance and the early Baroque in the early years, and from the late 1970s focused on madrigal music in particular. To date (April 2011) Rooley is represented in public concerts and recordings. In addition, he was and is still active as a teacher. Since 1990 he has been teaching regularly at the Basel Schola Cantorum Basiliensis . He also holds a visiting professorship at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Belgium.
Web links
- Works by and about Anthony Rooley in the catalog of the German National Library
- Curriculum vitae and extensive discography of Anthony Rooley at medieval.org (English)
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| SURNAME | Rooley, Anthony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English lutenist, guitarist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leeds , Northern England |