Lynda Sayce is a British

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and theorbo player, known also as a scholar of musical history and a writer on the history of the lute and theorbo. Brought up in

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where she trained in the youth orchestra Originally trained as a flautist, she read music at

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, Oxford, studied lute with

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at the Royal College of Music and played continuo with Nigel North. She has performed and recorded with many leading ensembles including Charivari Agréable, Musica Antiqua of London, The King's Consort and the Dowland Consort, playing the cittern and bandora in addition to the

lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lute" can ref ...

(and related instruments the theorbo and mandora). As a continuo player, she has performed for John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Orchestra,

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and the Taverner Players, the

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, and the English National Opera. In recent times she has also been exploring the repertoire of the early guitar, partly in consequence of having chanced upon a fine 1860s instrument in a charity shop.

Discography

According to her website, she has performed on more than 100 commercial recordings. Her first solo recording, of lute pieces by John and Robert Johnson, was issued on

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in 1992."Shakespeare's Lutenist"
Medieval Music & Arts Foundation. Retrieved 2014.

References

External links

The virtual home of the theorbo
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sayce, Lynda British lutenists British performers of early music Women performers of early music Alumni of the Royal College of Music Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford Living people Year of birth missing (living people)