David Skinner (musicologist)

Dr David Skinner (b. 1964 California) is Director of Music at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He co-founded the Cardinall's Musick and Magdala.

Skinner was educated at California State University, Fresno, the University of Edinburgh, and Christ Church, Oxford from where he received his DPhil in 1995: a biography of Nicholas Ludford and a critical edition of Ludford's antiphons. He has taught at the universities of Oxford, Glasgow, Cambridge and Royal Holloway College. He was a member of Christ Church Cathedral choir for six years, as an academical clerk and a lay clerk.

With Andrew Carwood he was co-founder and artistic director of the Cardinall's Musick, and produced more than 25 recordings for the group. He has been associated with a number of award-winning projects (including two Gramophone Awards and three runners up, Diapason d'Or, Deutsche Schallplatten, and a Grammy nomination).

His latest consort choir is Alamire, which, with Fretwork the choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge won the 'Recording of the Month' award in Gramophone Magazine,^[1] for February 2008.

Bibliography

Books

• The Arundel Choirbook (Duke of Norfolk: Roxburghe Club, 2003).
• Nicholas Ludford I: Mass Inclina cor meum and Antiphons, Early English Church Music, 44 (London: Stainer & Bell, 2003).
• Nicholas Ludford II: Six-part Masses and Magnificat, Early English Church Music, 46 (London: Stainer & Bell, 2005).

Articles

‘The Marian Anthem in Late Medieval England’, in The Church and Mary, Studies in Church History, 39 (Boydell & Brewer, 2004), 168—80.

‘A new Elizabethan keyboard source in the archives of Arundel Castle’, BRIO, 39 (Spring/Summer, 2002), 18—25.

‘Music and the Reformation at Magdalen’, Magdalen College Record (2002), 79—83.

‘Discovering the provenance and history of the Caius and Lambeth choirbooks’, Early Music, 25 (1997), 245—66.

‘William Cornysh: Clerk or Courtier?’, The Musical Times (May, 1997), 5—17.

‘At the mynde of Nycholas Ludford: new light on Ludford from the churchwardens’ accounts of St Margaret’s, Westminster’, Early Music, 22 (1994), 393—413.

Selected Recordings

• Thomas Tallis & William Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae 1575, Alamire, Obsidian Records.
• Thomas Tomkins: These Distracted Times, Alamire, Fretwork, and the Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Obsidian Records.
• Josquin Desprez: Missa D’ung aultre amer, Motets & Chansons, Alamire, Andrew Lawrence-King, Obsidian Records.
• Philippe Verdelot: Madrigals for a Tudor King, Alamire, Obsidian Records.
• In Ages Past: Collection of Popular Hymns, Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Classical Communications, 2006.
• Music from the Court of Henry VIII, Alamire, Manus Records (2006).
• A Gift for a King: a Florentine Offering to Henry VIII, Magdala (2006).
• Music for Princes and Ambassadors, Magdala, Classical Communications, (2005).
• Sanctus, Magdala, Classical Communications, (2005).
• Christmas Meditations, Magdala, Classical Communications, (2004).
• Treasury of Saints, Magdala, Classical Communications, (2003).
• Glory of Gothic (for V&A Enterprises), Magdala, Classical Communications, (2002).
• The Byrd Edition, The Cardinall's Musick, 9 CDs (of a projected 14), Sanctuary Classics, 1997—present.
• William Cornysh: Latin Church Music, The Cardinall's Musick, ASV Gaudeamus Records, 1997.
• John Merbecke: Latin Church Music, The Cardinall's Musick, ASV Gaudeaumus Records, 1996.
• Robert Fayrfax: Collected works, The Cardinall's Musick, 5-CD set, ASV Gaudeamus Records, 1995—99.
• Nicholas Ludford: Collected works, The Cardinall's Musick, 4-CD set, ASV Gaudeamus Records, 1993—94.

References

1. ^ http://www.gramophone.co.uk Gramophone Magazine

External links

• http://www.alamire.co.uk/

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