Anthony Bailes is a British
lutenist
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 re ...
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Anthony Bailes initially played the classical guitar, and after meeting
Diana Poulton
Diana Poulton, also known as Edith Eleanor Diana Chloe Poulton née Kibblewhite (18 April 1903, Storington – 15 December 1995, Heyshott) was an English lutenist and musicologist.
From 1919 through 1923 she studied at the Slade School of Fine Ar ...
began to study the lute with her. He was awarded a grant by the
Arts Council of Great Britain in 1971, and subsequently studied with Eugen Müller-Dombois at the
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) is a music academy and research institution located in Basel, Switzerland, that focuses on early music and historically informed performance. Faculty at the school have organized performing ensembles that have ...
in Basel, Switzerland. He has performed widely as a soloist, made numerous recordings, and published articles about lute performance practice. He has worked with many prominent musicians, such as
Jordi Savall
Jordi Savall i Bernadet (; born 1 August 1941) is a Spanish conductor, composer and viol player. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for popularizing the viol family of ...
,
Nigel Rogers
Nigel David Rogers (21 March 1935 – 19 January 2022) was an English multilingual tenor, music conductor, and vocal coach, who sang in over seventy classical music album recordings in German, French, Italian, Latin and English, mostly of earl ...
,
Emma Kirkby
Dame Carolyn Emma Kirkby, (; born 26 February 1949) is an English soprano and early music specialist. She has sung on over 100 recordings.
Education and early career
Kirkby was educated at Hanford School, Sherborne School for Girls in Dorse ...
, and
James Bowman. For many years he taught lute at the Sweelinck Conservatory of Music in Amsterdam.
Selected recordings
*Lute Music of The Netherlands (Carpe Diem)
*Apollon Orateur, music by Denis & Ennemond Gaultier (Ramée)
*Old Gautiers Nightinghall, French lute music from the 17th century (Ramée)
*Une Douceur Violente - Lute pieces by Jaques de Gallot & Charles Mouton (Ramée)
*Lauten Galanterie – music by Falkenhagen, Hagen, and Baron (EMI/Reflexe)
*Pieces de Luth - music by Mesengau, Gaultier, and Mouton (EMI/Reflexe)
External links
*An approach to 17th century French lute music, by Anthony Bailes, in Lute News No. 85, April 2008 (The Lute Society)
*Schlegel Andreas and Lüdke Joachim (2011). "The Lute in Europe 2", p. 349. The Lute Corner, London.
Carpe Diem Records article "Anthony Bailes*, retrieved 31 October 2012
article "GAULTIER, Apollon Orateur", retrieved 31 October 2012
lute-academy.be article "Pioneers of the Lute Revival" by Jo Van Herck, August 2001, retrieved 31 October 2012
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British lutenists