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Peter Wendland
- 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".
- With the harpsichordist, David Roblou, he is a member of the duo
Allemand.
- 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.
- "Gambenmusik von ergreifender Schönheit" - Westdeutsche Allgemeine
Zeitung
- peterwendland.co.uk
