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Project Summary: Byrd's 'Reasons to Sing'
In 2023, we celebrated the quatercentenary of English renaissance composer William Byrd. Thanks to generous grants from Arts Council...
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Byrd Takes Flight with Corvus Consort
Carrying on the celebrations! Over the next week, Corvus Consort will tour its programme, Byrd Takes Flight, curated for the #Byrd2023...
Jul 24, 20241 min read
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Snaps: Stile Antico Workshop @ Northumbria University
While Stile Antico was in the Northeast this March for their concert at Newcastle Cathedral (and 'Reasons to Sing' Family Concert), some...
May 15, 20241 min read
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Kerry Andrew 'Oh, Sing' / Stile Antico's Newcastle Cathedral Family Concert
Stile Antico/the Byrd Central team commissioned composer and writer Kerry Andrew to create a piece with a text inspired by Byrd's...
Mar 18, 20241 min read
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In memoria: Byrd scholar Alan Brown
Alan Brown, PhD (Cantab), LRAM, FRCO, was born in London in 1941 and was for thirty-three years successively Lecturer, and then Reader,...
Mar 17, 20242 min read
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Friederike Chylek's Keybyrd musick
Harpsichordist Friederike Chylek's specialism is English keyboard music of the 16th and 17th centuries. Her three solo recordings, Time...
Feb 19, 20243 min read
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Horizon Voices helps students in Bham, Leeds, and the NE find their 'Reasons to Sing'
Over the last six months, members of Horizon Voices have been delivering our hybrid music education and wellbeing project, Byrd: Reasons...
Feb 8, 20241 min read
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New Book: Byrd Studies in the Twenty-First Century
The first collected edition of new Byrd scholarship since 1992.
Dec 21, 20231 min read
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Nicholas Mulroy: The Fifth Element/Seeing Like a Child
Born in Liverpool, tenor Nicholas Mulroy was a chorister at the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral before studying Modern Languages at...
Oct 21, 20233 min read
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Friederike Chylek releases her latest album, "Tallis - Byrd - Gibbons" with OehmsClassics
Today, 20 October, harpsichordist Friederike Chylek releases her latest album, "Tallis - Byrd - Gibbons" with OehmsClassics.
Oct 20, 20231 min read
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Ross Duffin's Family Ties
Ross W. Duffin is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus and Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music Emeritus at Case Western Reserve...
Oct 17, 20232 min read
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Roxanna Panufnik: Byrd-inspired
Roxanna Panifnik b.1968 ARAM, GRSM(hons), LRAM studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music and, since then, has written a wide...
Oct 13, 20232 min read
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Byrd on Choral Chihuahua
Katie from Byrd Central joins Andrew Carwood, DoM at St Paul's Cathedral/hand waver of the Cardinall's Musick, hosted by the lovely...
Oct 10, 20231 min read
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We're going to Portland, Oregon!
Cantores in Ecclesia Present the Twenty-Fourth William Byrd Festival, August 4-20 2023 The annual William Byrd Festival returns to...
Jul 25, 20231 min read
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Byrd 400 Symposium at Lincoln Cathedral
Full programme and abstracts for the William Byrd at Lincoln Symposium
Jun 25, 20231 min read
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Katie Bank's Byrd List
Dr Katie Bank is a music historian at the University of Birmingham and the creator of ByrdCentral. Katie has published scholarly books...
Jun 23, 20236 min read
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Hyrd Like Byrd?: St Telio Organ
How close can we get to knowing what Byrd's Second Service might have sounded like in his day? One starting point for such an inquiry...
May 26, 20231 min read
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How William Byrd’s ‘Reasons… to Sing’ are inspiring young singers today
In 1588 as England faced the Spanish Armada Tudor composer William Byrd was fighting his own artistic battle: to persuade a country in...
Apr 17, 20234 min read
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William Byrd at Lincoln:A Symposium Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Composer’s Death
3-4 July 2023, Lincoln Cathedral 2023 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd. Lincoln Cathedral was Byrd’s first known...
Mar 9, 20231 min read
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Richard Rastall's Getting to know you
Dr Richard Rastall is Emeritus Professor of Historical Musicology at the University of Leeds.
Feb 16, 20233 min read
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Just give us the short version and we can discuss sharing it on our site. Stories can include annotated playlists of Byrd or renaissance music (externally hosted on Spotify or similar), original art, anecdotes, photos, video, text, or audio clips.
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