Erin Headley is an American

lirone The lirone (or lira da gamba) is the bass member of the '' lira'' family of instruments that was popular in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It is a bowed string instrument with between 9 and 16 gut strings and a fretted neck. When play ...

player, teacher, and director of several early music groups. She teaches at the

University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...

in England. With lutenist Stephen Stubbs and

Andrew Lawrence-King Andrew Lawrence-King (born 3 September 1959) is a harpist and conductor from Guernsey known for his work in early music. Career Lawrence-King received an organ scholarship to Selwyn College, Cambridge, following on his work as head chorister at t ...

she was part of the ensemble Tragicomedia, then founded the ensemble Tirami Su. She has also performed regularly with flautist Nancy Hadden's ensemble Circa 1500. In 2007 she founded the ensemble Atalante, named after Atalante Migliorotti, a musician and lutenist who was commissioned by

Isabella d'Este Isabella d'Este (19 May 1474 – 13 February 1539) was Marchioness of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure. She was a patron of the arts as well as a leader of fashion, whos ...

to make the first lirone in 1505.

Selected discography

with Les Arts Florissants * 1982 :

Luigi Rossi Luigi Rossi (c. 1597 – 20 February 1653) was an Italian Baroque composer. Born in Torremaggiore, a small town near Foggia, in the ancient kingdom of Naples, at an early age he went to Naples where he studied music with the Franco-Flemish comp ...

Oratorios ''Il pecator pentito. O Cecità del misero mortale'' (lirone). William Christie * 1983 :

Claudio Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered ...

''Il Ballo delle Ingrate'' and ''La Sestina'' (lira) * 1987 :

''Selva Morale e Spirituale'' (lira) * 1989 :

''Oratorio per la Settimana Santa'' * 1991 :

opera ''Orfeo'' (lirone) with other ensembles * '' Biber: The Mystery Sonatas''. John Holloway, Davitt Moroney, Tragicomedia. Virgin Classics, 1989. (lirone, viola da gamba) * ''

: Le canterine romane'' Tragicomedia.

Teldec Teldec (Telefunken-Decca Schallplatten GmbH) is a German record label in Hamburg, Germany. Today the label is a property of Warner Music Group. History Teldec was a producer of (first) shellac and (later) vinyl records. The Teldec manufacturing ...

* ''

: Vanitas Vanitatum - Roma 1650'' Tragicomedia. Teldec * ''Che Soave Armonia'' works by

Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered ...

Legrenzi Giovanni Legrenzi (baptized August 12, 1626 – May 27, 1690) was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era. He was one of the most prominent composers in Venice in the late 17th century, and ext ...

. Erin Headley, Ensemble Tirami Su, 1999 * ''Awake, O North Wind'' German baroque.

Dietrich Buxtehude Dieterich Buxtehude (; ; born Diderik Hansen Buxtehude; c. 1637 – 9 May 1707) was a Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period, whose works are typical of the North German organ school. As a composer who worked in various vocal a ...

Samuel Scheidt Samuel Scheidt (baptised 3 November 1587 – 24 March 1654) was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era. Life and career Scheidt was born in Halle, and after early studies there, he went to Amsterdam to study with ...

, Schmelzer,

Heinrich Schütz Heinrich Schütz (; 6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as one of the most important composers of the 17th century. He ...

Melchior Franck Melchior Franck (c. 1579 – 1 June 1639) was a German composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a hugely prolific composer of Protestant church music, especially motets, and assisted in bringing the stylistic innovations ...

Franz Tunder Franz Tunder (1614 – November 5, 1667) was a German composer and organist of the early to middle Baroque era. He was an important link between the early German Baroque style which was based on Venetian models, and the later Baroque style ...

Samuel Capricornus Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, born Samuel Friedrich Bockshorn (21 December 1628, in Žerčice near Mladá Boleslav – 10 November 1665, in Stuttgart) was a Czech composer of the Baroque period. Life Capricornus' father was a Protestant minis ...

Matthias Weckmann Matthias Weckmann (''Weckman'') (''c''.1616 24 February 1674) was a German musician and composer of the Baroque period. He was born in Niederdorla (Thuringia) and died in Hamburg. Life His musical training took place in Dresden (as a chorister a ...

Johann Rudolf Ahle Johann Rudolph Ahle (24 December 1625 – 9 July 1673) was a German composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church musician. Biography Ahle was born in Mühlhausen, Thuringia. While not much is known of his early musical training, he attended ...

. Singers: Laurie Reviol, Anna Eriksson, Suzanne Persson, Nora Roll,

Harry van der Kamp Harry van der Kamp (born 1947 in Kampen) is a Dutch bass singer in opera and concert. Mostly active in Historically informed performance, he founded the Gesualdo Ensemble. He is also an academic voice teacher. Singing career Born in Kampen (Ove ...

. Ensemble Tirami Su. dir. Erin Headley,

Challenge Classics : ''To be distinguished from Challenge Records (1920s) and Challenge Records (1950s)'' Challenge Records is a record company and label in the Netherlands founded by Hein van de Geyn, Anne de Jong, and Joost Leijen in 1994. Its catalogue includes m ...

. * ''Reliquie di Roma I : Lamentarium.'' -

Marco Marazzoli Marco Marazzoli (1602? – 26 January 1662) was an Italian priest and Baroque music composer. Early life Born at Parma, Marazzoli received early training as a priest, and was ordained around 1625. He moved to Rome in 1626, and entered the s ...

Lament of Helen of Troy. Lament of Artemisia.

Lament of Mary Magdelene. Lament of the Blessed Virgin,

Marc'Antonio Pasqualini 200px, ''Marcantonio Pasqualini Crowned by Apollo'' (1641) by Andrea Sacchi. Marco Antonio Pasqualini (stage name Malagigi; 25 April 1614 – 2 July 1691) was an Italian castrato opera singer who performed during the Baroque period. He has be ...

. Domenico Mazzochi. Nadine Balbeisi, soprano; Theodora Baka, mezzo-soprano. Erin Headley, Atalante. Destino Classics / Nimbus Alliance NI 6152 July 2011Irish Times
/ref> * ''Reliquie di Roma II : Caro Sposo'' - Marco Marazzoli. Oratorio di Santa Catarina. Pasquini. excerpt Lamento di Cain from oratorio Cain e Abel. Nimbus Alliance NI 6185 June 2012. Katherine Watson, Nadine Balbeisi,

Emily Van Evera Emily Van Evera is an American soprano who specializes in early music and Baroque music in historically informed performance. Born in Minnesota, she has collaborated in Europe and the US with ensembles such as the Hilliard Ensemble, the London S ...

, Steve Dugardin, Juan Sancho. Erin Headley, Atalante. Destino Classics.

References

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