Lute Player
Elizabeth Kenny is one of Europe’s leading lute players. Equally at home in solo. chamber music and the opera house, she combines a love of the lute repertoire with a flair for imaginative collaborations that enrich an unusually varied performing life.
‘incandescent’ – Music and Vision
‘radical’ – Independent on Sunday
‘indecently beautiful’ – Toronto Post
‘the peerless lutenist Elizabeth Kenny’ – The Guardian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnoBbLnEccY Catch the soulful Nicholas Mulroy and guitars/theorbo from Toby Carr and myself playing music from Latin America by Silvio Rodrigues, Caetano Velosa and Vicor Jara alongside Monteverdi, Purcel and Jose Marin. Festival films available until March 31st http://www.baroqueattheedge.co.uk/ The Festival without walls, to enjoy in lockdown. There’s a paradox.
One year later, I’ve finished my two years at Director of Performance at Oxford, and I’m getting stuck in as the Academy’s Dean of Students .
2019 was a big theorbo fun fest for me, recitals all over the place in UK and beyond… I was thrilled to end the year with Ars Longa at No 6 in Linn’s Top Ten releases. Got to the Classical Charts too. Linn Top 10 Linn top 10