Peter Holman MBE (musical director, conductor, musicologist) will present for us (in English) on the subject of French Baroque Music.
Peter is best known for reviving the music of Purcell and his English contemporaries. . He is now director of The Parley of Instruments and the choir Psalmody, is musical director of Leeds Baroque and director of the Suffolk Villages Festival. He has taught at many conservatoires, universities, and summer schools in Britain, Europe, New Zealand and the USA, and was Reader and then Professor of Historical Musicology at Leeds University from 2000, retiring as Emeritus Professor in 2010. He was awarded an MBE in 2015.