BIOGRAPHY
Gawain Glenton is a specialist cornetto player whose work as a soloist and an ensemble musician takes him all over the world. He performs and records with many leading international groups and directors, such as Il Giardino Armonico, Concerto Palatino, Concerto Copenhagen, Les Talens Lyriques, Concerto Italiano, The Taverner Consort, Barokksolistene and the Nederlandse Bachvereniging. Gawain is a member and co-director of The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, with whom he has recorded several acclaimed CDs, including 'The Spy's Choirbook' with Alamire - winner of the 2015 Gramophone Award for Early Music. Gawain is the founder/director of In Echo, whose debut CD 'Music in a Cold Climate' (Delphian) recieved stellar reviews and broke into the top-10 of the UK classical charts.
Although now based in the UK, Gawain spent several years living in Basel where he studied with Bruce Dickey at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. As a result of these years abroad, Gawain is closely involved with many 'next generation' ensembles, such as Ensemble Leones, and also the Basel-based I Fedeli. In the UK, Gawain also works with ensembles such as Arcangelo, La Nuova Musica, The City Musick and I Fagiolini.
Gawain's research and expertise in the field of ornamenting early music has also led to him becoming increasingly in demand as a coach for both singers and instrumentalists. His experience as a professional singer and multi-instrumentalist also helps to make Gawain a highly versatile musician. Very much at home in the rich musical world of the 16th and 17th centuries, Gawain also enjoys expanding the repertoire of the cornetto, either by performing new and challenging contemporary music, or by working with other musicians from the rock, pop and folk worlds.
Gawain is working towards a doctoral study of Italian diminution treatises at Southampton University (funded by the AHRC as part of the South West & Wales Doctoral Training Partnership). He is also co-director of the Cambridge Early Music Renaissance Summer School, which takes place this year at Benslow Music from August 1st-8th 2021. Gawain will be coaching alongside Clare Wilkinson, William Lyons, Marc Lewon and Uri Smilansky. More information at www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org.
Although now based in the UK, Gawain spent several years living in Basel where he studied with Bruce Dickey at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. As a result of these years abroad, Gawain is closely involved with many 'next generation' ensembles, such as Ensemble Leones, and also the Basel-based I Fedeli. In the UK, Gawain also works with ensembles such as Arcangelo, La Nuova Musica, The City Musick and I Fagiolini.
Gawain's research and expertise in the field of ornamenting early music has also led to him becoming increasingly in demand as a coach for both singers and instrumentalists. His experience as a professional singer and multi-instrumentalist also helps to make Gawain a highly versatile musician. Very much at home in the rich musical world of the 16th and 17th centuries, Gawain also enjoys expanding the repertoire of the cornetto, either by performing new and challenging contemporary music, or by working with other musicians from the rock, pop and folk worlds.
Gawain is working towards a doctoral study of Italian diminution treatises at Southampton University (funded by the AHRC as part of the South West & Wales Doctoral Training Partnership). He is also co-director of the Cambridge Early Music Renaissance Summer School, which takes place this year at Benslow Music from August 1st-8th 2021. Gawain will be coaching alongside Clare Wilkinson, William Lyons, Marc Lewon and Uri Smilansky. More information at www.CambridgeEarlyMusic.org.
