Toby Carr & Gwen Martin
A versatile musician who performs in a wide
range of styles and settings, Toby Carr is a guitarist and lutenist
who grew up in Hertfordshire before moving to London to pursue
further education.
Toby studied classical guitar with Graham
Anthony Devine at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Danced
where he also discovered lutes and early guitars under the tutelage
of David Miller. Going
on to postgraduate study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
with Bob Brightmore (classical guitar) and David Miller and William
Carter (historical performance) he continued onto the MPerf course
as a historical performance specialist, graduating in 2016.
While still active as a classical guitarist and
teacher Toby has developed a specialism in the performance of
renaissance and baroque music, particularly that of seventeenth
century England and Italy, performing in this context regularly as a
soloist, accompanist and continuo player.
This has led to work with groups and organisations such as
the London Philharmonic Orchestra, English Touring Opera,
Glyndebourne Youth Opera and Dame Emma Kirkby's Dowland Works,
including being a founding member of emerging ensembles Ceruleo and
Lux Musicae London.
Now settled in south-east London with his
Harpist fiance, Toby is gaining a reputation as an innovative and
exciting performer and educator, working with some of the finest
musicians in the business.
Gwendolen Martin was brought up in Wiltshire
and studied music and was a choral scholar at Worcester College,
Oxford. She received a
scholarship to study singing at Trinity College of Music and now
enjoys a career as a soloist and ensemble singer, performing with
groups such as The Monteverdi Choir, The Gabrieli Consort, The
Tallis Scholars and The Marian Consort.
Recent highlights include step-out solos in
Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot
Gardiner), lute song recitals with lutenist Toby Carr alongside Dame
Emma Kirkby, La Verginella Recital with Tom Primrose (Lake District
Summer Music), Baroque Tales with Musica Poetica (Bath Recitals),
Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice (Chorus, Royal Opera House), Breaking the
Rules; a music play about Gesualdo (UK tour 2016/17, Clare Norburn,
The Marian Consort), soloist in Handel’s Dixit Dominus for Worcester
College Choirs Tercentenary (St. John’s Smith Square, Nicholas
Cleobury) and recitals with Harmonia Antiqua in Slovenia.
She’s looking forward to
tours to Italy, New York, Switzerland and Lisbon with various groups
in the coming months. Gwendolen
is also Curriculum Consultant for Southwark Music Service where she
trains and mentors music specialists in primary curriculum
PROGRAMME
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