Alison Crum is one of the best-known British exponents of the viol. As teacher and performer, she travels all over the world giving recitals and lectures, and teaching at summer schools and workshops.

Alison studied with Wieland Kuijken and Jordi Savall, and has made over seventy-five recordings with many early music groups, notably the Consort of Musicke, the Dowland Consort, Musica Antiqua of London and the Rose Consort of Viols. She features as a soloist on two discs of Marais on the Naxos label.

Alison is President of the Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain and Professor of Viol at Trinity College of Music in London. She is Director of the International Viol Week, which attracts players from many countries each summer, and her highly acclaimed book, 'Play the Viol', now in its third reprint, is published by Oxford University Press.

Laurence Cummings enjoys a successful career as a solo harpsichordist, continuo player and conductor, as well as broadcasting regularly on television and radio. Laurence plays for many period instrument groups including Les Arts Florissants, The Sixteen, the Gabrieli Consort, and The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and as a soloist he has recorded the music of Louis and François Couperin.

Laurence studied with Robert Woolley at the Royal College of Music and later with Jill Severs and Kenneth Gilbert. As a great advocate of the performance of Handel opera he has undertaken several tours of Ireland, conducting with Opera Theatre Company.

Laurence is Head of Historical Performance at the Royal Academy of Music and Co-Director of the London Handel Orchestra and Festival.

released:
J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Music from the Well Tempered Clavier

Visit Alison Crum's web site at http://homepages.which.net/~alison.crum