TREmusici was formed by Patrizia Kwella (soprano), Jennifer Ward Clarke (‘cello) and Alastair Ross to give performances of 16^th to the early 18^th century music. The trio offers the standards of excellence associated with any recital, without quite the formality of a solo recital.

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JENNY WARD CLARKE’S playing career has covered a wide range of musical life. Before she became involved in the exploration of historical performance practice she was active in contemporary music, being a founder member of both The Fires of London and the London Sinfonietta, with whom she toured and recorded for a decade. Then, being drawn into the period instrument world, she became principal ‘cellist for Roger Norrington, John Eliot Gardiner and Andrew Parrot when they first formed their own orchestras.

She is a member of the Salomon Quartet, who have nearly completed their recordings of all Haydn’s String Quartets for the Hyperion label, and is Professor of Baroque ‘Cello at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music.

ALASTAIR ROSS graduated from New College, Oxford with a first in music, before studying in New York and working as an organist and choirmaster in Connecticut.  He has since worked for twenty five years as a harpsichordist and organist based in London, appearing as a soloist with many London orchestras, in the concert hall, for the BBC and on records - his discography totals over 100 recordings.  He has recorded Bach’s 5th Brandenburg Concerto for both audio and video with the Brandenburg Consort, and a Handel Organ Concerto with the Academy of Ancient Music for the BBC.  His solo recitals have included Bach’s Goldberg Variations at the Wigmore Hall.

Alastair directed the music at High Wycombe Parish Church and St Margaret’s Westminster for many years, and for the past ten years has taught and conducted at the Britten / Pears school in Snape on courses devoted to Bach and Handel performance.  He directs Concerto delle Donne, a three-soprano group including his wife Gill and David Miller (Chitarrone) specialising in 17th and 18th century Italian and French repertoire for sopranos and continuo, whose first CD of music by Carissimi has recently been issued on the Signum label.  In 1996 he and Gill formed the Anna Magdalena Children’s Choir.