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THERESA CAUDLE comes from a musical family with a keen interest in
renaissance and baroque music. She started to learn the violin at the age of
seven and the cornett at thirteen, becoming one of the foremost performers on
the latter whilst still a teenager. At the Guildhall School of Music she
received a scholarship to study the baroque violin, and was the first person to
receive a diploma on that instrument. Whilst pursuing her studies on the
violin, she became director of The London Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, and
with this group travelled all over Europe as well as making many recordings,
including Monteverdi's opera "L’Orfeo" and Matthew Locke's
"Music for His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts". As a string player
she has been a member of The English Concert, The English Baroque Soloists and
The Brandenburg Consort, and was principal second violin in The Drottningholm
Court Theatre Orchestra for nine years. One of Theresa’s main commitments,
lasting twenty-five years, was to The Parley of Instruments, of which she was a
founder member, and with which she made over fifty recordings of baroque
chamber and orchestral music for the Hyperion label.
Although Theresa is a regular member of several
different ensembles, such as The Symphony of Harmony and Invention (Harry
Christophers’ orchestra) and The London Handel Orchestra, her activities are
increasingly in connection with directing her own ensemble, Canzona, both in
chamber music concerts and in collaborations with choirs. She is also in demand
as a leader with other groups in this country such as Frideswide, The
Woodmansterne Collection and London Pro Arte Baroque, and abroad, where she has
acted as Concert Master at Drottningholm Court Theatre and with the Polish
group, L’arte dei Suonatore.
Theresa enjoys teaching at all levels and has a busy
schedule both within schools and privately. She has also given coaching
sessions in baroque style at The Royal Academy of Music, Birmingham and Leeds
Universities and has acted as a specialist examiner for final recitals both at
The Royal Academy and Royal College of Music. She regularly directs and teaches on baroque
courses at Benslow, Jackdaws and the Oxford Baroque Week and also in Croatia,
where she formed a fruitful collaboration with the leader of the Croatian
Baroque Ensemble. As a result, Theresa has revisited Croatia to direct
programmes with this ensemble and to coach students at the Academy in Zagreb in
baroque performance practice.
e-mail: info@canzona.co.uk