Poeticall Musicke is resident in many venues throughout the UK. If you miss the ensemble at their home residency at St James' (Islington), you can hear them perform monthly at All Saints Church (York), St Edward King and Martyr (Cambridge) and St Mary Magdalen (Oxford). They are also the resident baroque ensemble for the website Lyribox: a resource for singers. They have played throughout London in venues including the Southbank Centre, Christchurch Spitalfields and the Foundling Museum.

The ensemble regularly performs internationally and was recently featured in the 'Echi lontani' festival of early music in Sardinia.

Poeticall Musicke has embraced internet music distribution by providing outstanding recordings that are free to stream. Through their record label Veterum Musica they have gained an increasingly substantial online following, having attracted over 30,000 plays with six albums.

Poeticall Musicke is grateful for the support of the Early Music Shop and a growing number of patrons.

Rosemary Galton is a Fellow of the Historical Performance department at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she continues her studies with Laura Sarti and Mhairi Lawson. Rosemary graduated from GSMD with an MMus in 2011, and prior to this held a choral scholarship at Clare College, Cambridge, where she read for a BA in Mathematics.

Rosemary regularly performs with Tenebrae, English Voices, Armonico Consort, Britten Sinfonia Voices and The Syred Consort, which she co-founded with conductor Ben Palmer in 2007. Recent solo performances include Hero and Climene in scenes from Cavalli's L'Egisto (Cavalli), Daphne in Jacopi Peri's Euridice, Dido in Dido and Aeneas (Iris Theatre / Orchestra of St Paul's), and Zerlina in Don Giovanni. Most recently Rosemary sang in the chorus for Jonathan Miller's staged production of Bach's St Matthew Passion at the National Theatre. www.rosemarygalton.co.uk

Kaisa Pulkkinen started playing the baroque triple harp when she was studying early music at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki. Her principle study was the recorder, but she also had lessons on the harpsichord and the modern harp. After finishing her studies in Finland in 2010 with excellent marks, she moved to London to study the baroque harp with Prof. Andrew Lawrence-King at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Kaisa has taken part in many productions directed by Annamari Pölhö, Päivi Järviö, Juha Karvonen, Charles Barbier and Veli-Markus Tapio and has performed regularly as a soloist and chamber musician. She performed in the premiere of La Piedra de Don, a small opera for three singers and instruments by Herman Rechberger in 2008. Her playing can be heard on the recording of 17th century music "Ulrica" released in 2009 by the City Museum of Helsinki.

Alex McCartney is a lutenist studying at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. His current tutors are William Carter and David Miller. Prior to taking up the lute, Alex studied classical guitar, first with Mark Curry and then with Robert Brightmore at GSMD.

Continually in demand as an accompanist and soloist, Alex has performed extensively in the UK, working alongside artists such as Emma Kirkby, The English Concert, Poeticall Musicke, La Nuova Musica and the Royal Ballet. Alex has recently performed live on both BBC1 and Radio 3.

Alex is regularly recorded and is a resident artist with the record label Veterum Musica. He has recently recorded two solo lute albums and 'Canarios' a triple disc set of music for solo organ and theorbo, with organist and harpsichordist Joseph Chesshyre. Future plans include a complete recording of Giovanni Pittoni's full works for theorbo.

In 2011 Alex founded Poeticall Musicke, an early music group specialising in Renaissance to Mid-Baroque music. www.alexmccartney.co.uk

Donald Bennet is a post-graduate gambist studying with Liam Byrne at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He enjoys working with ensembles including Poeticall Musicke, Hanbarne Baroque Ensemble and Dei Gratia. Recent concert venues have included the Barbican, LSO St Lukes and Wigmore Hall.

In the last few months Donald has performed live on BBC1, ITV1 and BBC Radio 3.

Donald is a first-study cellist, as a student of Richard Lester at Guildhall. Prior to this, Donald was an Instrumental Award Holder at Clare College, Cambridge. www.donaldbennet.com

Joseph Chesshyre's musical career began aged five with piano and violin lessons. He has loved the harpsichord from a young age, but did not play one until he began his undergraduate degree at University of Edinburgh with tuition from John Kitchen. He has recently completed an MMus in harpsichord performance at GSMD with Carole Cerasi and James Johnstone, and has been made an Artist Fellow for this academic year.

Joseph is keyboard player for two new London groups, The Musicians of London Wall and Poeticall Musicke. Joseph particularly loves sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English keyboard and sacred vocal music. His other interests include instrument building, electroacoustic music and recording, and motorcycles.

Rafael Font began his violin studies at the age of 5 in the Emil Friedman School in Caracas, Venezuela. During his formative years Rafael was a student of Luis Miguel González, Raimondas Butvila and Simón Gollo.

At the age of 15 Rafael became a member of the Virtuosi de Caracas orchestra, where he regularly performed as a soloist and leader. Since then, Rafael has performed as leader with numerous period and chamber ensembles including Guildhall School of Music & Drama's Baroque Orchestra, Lutes and Voices and Cantata ensembles, while collaborating with artists such as Pavlo Beznosiuk, Andrew Lawrence-King, Adrian Butterfield and David Watkin.

Other ensembles Rafael has worked with include Academy of Ancient Music, Poeticall Musicke, The Amadè Players, La Nuova Musica. He is also a participant in the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's Experience Scheme.

Rafael is currently studying violin in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with professors Jacqueline Ross and Pavlo Beznosiuk, supported by the Harry Weinrebe Award.

George Clifford is a versatile musician, equally at home playing the organ and conducting the choir at his local parish church in East Grinstead, West Sussex and singing bass, tenor and countertenor in choirs around the UK as playing the violin and viola. He became interested in historical performance during his undergraduate violin studies at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM), and has now completed a Masters degree in baroque violin, having studied with Simon Standage and Matthew Truscott. George was awarded the prestigious DipRAM for an outstanding MA final recital.

Musicians George has worked with include Trevor Pinnock, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Butt, Edward Higginbottom, Laurence Cummings, Richard Egarr, Steven Devine, Lisa Beznosiuk, Pavlo Beznosiuk, Rachel Podger, Margaret Faultless and Mark Padmore and he has played with groups including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Academy of Ancient Music, the International Baroque Players, New Century Baroque, Charivari Agréable, Guildhall Gradutaes Baroque Orchestra, The Amadè Players, Poeticall Musicke, The Regent's Soloists, RAM Baroque Orchestra, Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra and La Nuova Musica. George has also recorded CDs with the Love Handelers, International Baroque Players, and New Century Baroque with the choir of New College, Oxford. George was a participant in the 'Ann and Peter Law OAE Experience for young players' in 2011 on both violin and viola.

When George is not busy playing he enjoys singing, mostly in amateur choirs, but occasionally as a soloist. He is a member of the choir of St Swithun's Church, East Grinstead (as well as being Deputy Organist), East Grinstead Choral Society, Kent Chorus, the London Orpheus Choir, Meridian Voices, In Spiritu Chamber Choir and 5 in a Bar.

George is generously sponsored by Hilary Weston.

Armato Il Cor

Awake My Lyre

Canarios I

Canarios III

Canarios II

Farewell I

Farewell II

Instant Fires

Majestie

Masquerade

Poeticall Musicke Live

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