As a group, we have played informally together for several years, and we like to explore string music mainly from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, very often from lesser known composers. We share an interest in historically informed performance and we play on instruments that are set up specifically to produce a sound that reflects an earlier period. We use gut strings and baroque bows, and we play at a pitch slightly lower than a modern string group.
There are five of us:
Rosy Payne - violin & voice
Stephen Cheek - violin & viola
Andrew Spencer - violin, viola & recorder
Rachel Fulcher - cello
Christopher Dexter-Mills - continuo & solo harpsichord