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PETER WENDLAND is a viol player and early music specialist

An accomplished, versatile and sensitive performer on all instruments of the viol family: pardessus de viole to violone.
As a soloist he plays the viol repertoire from Ortiz to Abel. Contemporary projects have included a recording with the American cult composer, "Moondog".
As a performer of Bach, he has played the three celebrated sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord obligato in the Bachhaus in Eisenach with Harald Hoeren and in the UK with David Roblou; the gamba solos from the Passions, and performed and recorded the Art of the Fugue with the Koelner Violen Consort.
As a consort player he is a longstanding member of the acclaimed Rose Consort of Viols, whose recent guest artists have included Emma Kirkby, Jacob Heringman, Jacob Lindberg, Catherine King and Timothy Roberts. With the Koelner Violen consort in Germany: radio, CDs, premieres of new music for viols and collaborations with lutenist Konrad Junghaenel, oboist Helmut Hucke and cornett player Friedemann Immer.
He has been a visiting artist at Trinity College of Music in London and taught at summer schools and workshops throughout Europe, including the Dartington International Summer School.
As a specialist in early music he has coached and performed with ensembles ranging from viol consorts, choirs and recorder ensembles to renaissance wind bands.
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