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Anthony Rooley is a British lutenist, born on 10 June 1944 in Leeds. In 1969 he founded and directed the early-music ensemble the Consort of Musicke. He was appointed vice president of the York Early Music Festival in 2008. He has also worked as a visiting professor at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where he directs Advanced Vocal Ensemble Studies (AVES). In 2003, 2005 and 2007 he held four-month residencies at Florida State University, giving graduate seminars and directing productions.
He has recorded extensively and continues to perform solo and duo repertoire with sopranos Evelyn Tubb and Emma Kirkby. His recordings include three made with James Tyler: Renaissance Duets (1972), My Lute Awake! (1974) and Greensleeves – Lautenmusik der Renaissance (1981). He has also transcribed and edited Renaissance Lute Fantasias (1980) and XII Wonders of the World: 1611 by John Maynard (1985), and wrote the book Performance: Revealing the Orpheus Within (1990).
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