DAVID SKINNER, DPhil (Oxon.), MMus (Edin.)

DAVID SKINNER is known primarily for his combined role as a researcher and performer of early music, and is currently Fellow and Director of Music at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer at Cambridge University where he teaches historical and practical subjects from the medieval and renaissance periods. He is a co-founder of award-winning ensemble The Cardinall's Musick, with whom he had produced more than 25 recordings during his time as co-artistic director (1989-2004). As a record producer he has been involved with a number of award-winning projects (including two Gramophone Awards and three runners up, Diapason d'Or, Deutche Schallplatten, and a Grammy nomination). He has also served as academic advisor and music editor for a number of professional vocal ensembles, including the Hilliard Ensemble, Tallis Scholars, The Sixteen, and several of the collegiate choirs in Oxford and Cambridge. From 1997 to 2001 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy at Christ Church, Oxford, and was the Lecturer in Music at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 2001 to 2006, where he conducted Magdala, the mixed-voice chapel choir, with whom he has produced a number of commercial recordings for various museums and art galleries, including the British Museum and Library, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. At Cambridge, he conducts the Choir of Sidney Sussex College. He has published widely on music and musicians of early Tudor England, and his most recent books include the collected works of Nicholas Ludford (Early English Church Music, 2003 & 2005) and The Arundel Choirbook (Duke of Norfolk: Roxburghe Club, 2003). He is currently editing the Latin church music of John Sheppard for publication in 2008.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Substantial works

• The Arundel Choirbook: London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS1 (Duke of Norfolk: Roxburghe Club, 2003).
• Nicholas Ludford I: Mass Inclina cor meum and Antiphons, Early English Church Music, 44 (London: Stainer & Bell, 2003).
• Nicholas Ludford II: Six-part Masses and Magnificat, Early English Church Music, 46 (London: Stainer & Bell, 2005).

Articles

• 'Music and the Reformation at the Collegiate Church of St Mary and All Saints, Fotheringhay' (in the press).
  
• 'The Marian Anthem in Late Medieval England', in The Church and Mary, Studies in Church History, 39 (Boydell & Brewer, 2004), 168 - 80.
• 'A new Elizabethan keyboard source in the archives of Arundel Castle', BRIO, 39 (Spring/Summer, 2002), 18 - 25.
• 'Music and the Reformation at Magdalen', Magdalen College Record (2002), 79 - 83.
• 'Discovering the provenance and history of the Caius and Lambeth choirbooks', Early Music, 25 (1997), 245 - 66.
• 'William Cornysh: Clerk or Courtier?', The Musical Times (May, 1997), 5 - 17.
• 'At the mynde of Nycholas Ludford: new light on Ludford from the churchwardens' accounts of St Margaret's, Westminster', Early Music, 22 (1994), 393 - 413.

Articles for the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the New Dictionary of National Biography.

Sheet Music

William Byrd

• Ego sum panis vivus, Tudor Church Music (Oxford, 1996).
• O magnum mysterium, Tudor Church Music (Oxford, 1996).
• Prevent us, O Lord, Tudor Church Music (Oxford, 1994).

John Taverner

• Le Roy Kyrie, Tudor Church Music (Oxford, 1994).
• Christe Jesu, pastor bone, Tudor Church Music (Oxford, 1994).

See also http://www.waynfletemusic.com

Reviews

• R. Sherr (ed.), The Josquin Companion (Oxford, 2000), in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 54 (2004), 780 - 82.
• R. Bowers, English church polyphony. Singers and sources from the 14th to the 17th century (Ashgate, 1999); J. Harley, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Scolar Press, 1997), in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 51 (2000), 798 - 99.
• 'The Byrd Edition: Gradualia II', Early Music, 26 (1998), 151 - 52.
• 'Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks', Early Music, 23 (1995), 509-10.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

• John Sheppard III: Hymns, Psalm Motets, and Antiphonal Works, Early English Church Music, 51 (London: Stainer & Bell).
• 'Music and the Reformation at Fotheringhay College', in English Collegiate Churches (forthcoming from Boydell & Brewer)
  
• 'Princes, Ambassadors, and the Lost Choirbooks of Tudor England'
• 'An obit for a Tudor bishop: John Longland and the final years of Fotheringhay College'
• 'Ludford's Lady Masses, XX Songes and a Westminster Inventory of 1542'
• 'At the eleuacion of our lorde: a newly identified motet by Robert Fayrfax'
• 'Giovanni Gioacchino da Passano: the king's servant'

RECORDINGS AND MEDIA EVENTS

1. SELECTED RECORDINGS
• Nicholas Ludford: Collected works, The Cardinall's Musick, 4-CD set, ASV Gaudeamus Records, 1993 - 94.
• Robert Fayrfax: Collected works, The Cardinall's Musick, 5-CD set, ASV Gaudeamus Records, 1995 - 99.
• John Merbecke: Latin Church Music, The Cardinall's Musick, ASV Gaudeaumus Records, 1996.
• William Cornysh: Latin Church Music, The Cardinall's Musick, ASV Gaudeamus Records, 1997.
• The Byrd Edition, The Cardinall's Musick, 9 CDs (of a projected 14), Sanctuary Classics, 1997 - present.
• Glory of Gothic (for V&A Enterprises), Magdala, Classical Communications, 2002.
• Treasury of Saints, Magdala, Classical Communications, 2003.
• Christmas Meditations, Magdala, Classical Communications, 2004.
• Sanctus, (Compilation) Classical Communications, 2005.
• The Ambassadors: Music from Italy, France, and England, Magdala, Classical Communications, 2005.
• A Gift for a King: a Florentine offering to Henry VIII, Magdala, Classical Communications, 2006.
• Great Music from the Court of Henry VIII, Alamire, Classical Communications, for release in 2006.
• Philippe Verdelot: Madrigals for a Tudor King, Alamire, Obsidian Records, for release in 2007.
• Josquin Desprez: Missa D'ung aultre amer, Motets & Chanson, Alamire, Obsidian Records, for release in 2007.
• Thomas Tomkins: Music for these distracted times, Alamire & Fretwork with the Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Obsidian Records, for release in 2007.


2. MEDIA (SELECTED EVENTS)
• 2007 Filmed performances of Josquin Desprez for an Arts Council-funded project by Sonia Boyce (Newangle Productions).
  
• 2006 BBC Wales documentary on the Life of St David (Green Bay Productions); soundtrack and filmed performances with Alamire.
• 2005 Featured on the Early Music Show, BBC Radio 3, for 'Princes & Ambassadors' programme (cultural exchanges between Henry VIII and one of his ambassadors).
• 2005 Presenter and script writer for 'Gunpowder Arts', Sunday Special for BBC Radio 3, to be broadcasted on 6 November 2005.
• 2003 'Playing Elizabeth's Tune' (Gimell DVD for The Tallis Scholars).
• Live one-and-a-half hour Christmas special of 'In Tune', presented by Sean Rafferty, in Magdalen College Auditorium.
• 2002 Featured on the Early Music Show, BBC Radio 3, for the Glories of Gothic exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
• 2002 'Music and the Reformation at Magdalen College, Oxford', Music Matters, Radio 3, broadcasted on 1 February 2002.
• 2001 'The Falcon and Fetterlock: Music for a Royal Foundation', live one-hour broadcast on BBC Radio 3 of a scripted concert with The Cardinall's Musick
• 1999 450th anniversary of the Book of Common Prayer; music from the Wanley part-books and a liturgical reconstruction of Holy Communion as it might have been performed on Whitsun, 1549 (Christ Church Cathedral Choir); I scripted and co-presented the programme (with Christopher Page) for BBC Radio 3.
• 1998 Liturgical reconstruction of a Mass for Purification, performed in the chapel of Hampton Court Palace (Cardinall's Musick); broadcast for BBC Radio 3.
• 1997 Record Review (BBC Radio 3); a selection of recordings of early Tudor church music.
• 1996 'Music in late medieval Arundel', co-presented (with Christopher Page) for BBC Radio 3's Spirit of the Age.
• 1994 'Music in late medieval Westminster', co-presented (with Christopher Page and Gervase Rosser) for BBC Radio 4's Kaleidoscope.