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Fantasia (by Alfonso Ferrabosco I or Richard Allison) was performed by Richard MacKenzie on a 9-course orpharion by Alan Clark at pitch a=440Hz. It was recorded LIVE using a Tascam DR-1. The recording was then processed via Nero Wave Editor.
Lutenist & Guitarist Richard MacKenzie is rapidly gaining recognition as a soloist and collaborative artist on renaissance and baroque lutes, renaissance and baroque guitars, vihuela, orpharion and theorbo. He is currently a permanent member of six professional ensembles; Chordophony (Europe's only professional lute quartet), Oxford Baroque (dir. Jeremy Summerly), Lyrica, Galliarda, Balisiensis and Mascherata, and his many professional collaborations include Charivari Agréable (dir. Kah-Ming Ng), Ex Cathedra (dir. Jeffrey Skidmore), Linden Baroque (dir. Steven Divine), New London Orchestra (dir. Ronald Corp), The Madrigirls, Ars Nova, Fiori Musicali featuring James Bowman (dir. Penelope Rapson), The City Waites (dir. Lucie Skeaping), The Apollo Baroque Consort, The Brook Street Band, Vespri Segreti, Sounds Baroque, Il Festino, and Oxford's New Chamber Opera (dir. Michael Burden, mus. dir. Steven Divine). In April 2012 Richard assistant-directed the European Lute Orchestra's appearance at the Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza. Summer 2012 saw Richard working as a musician (medieval lute, cittern, tambourella, field drum) at Shakepeare's Globe for their production of Shakepeare's Henry V (feat. Jamie Parker). Richard was also made a tutor on the NWEMF's summer school at the age of 17.
In 2011 Richard completed a degree in music at The Queen's College, University of Oxford. Whilst studying at the university he was also a keen solo performer, performing seven solo recitals in some of the most diverse concert venues across Oxford (for more details of these solo programmes please click here). Presently he continues to occasionally study lute with the internationally renowned lutenists Jakob Lindberg and Jacob Heringman, having previously studied at Chetham's School of Music with Hugh Cherry and Martin Shepherd, a school where has was awarded three prizes, including those for 'Early Music' and for 'Academic Music'. In 2012 the Lute Society of Great Britain published his first edition, a critical edition and reconstruction of the ensemble works from Giovanni Battista Granata's Armoniosi Toni... (Bologna, 1684). Richard also possesses diplomas in recorder and clarinet performance, and was principal clarinettist for the National Children's Orchestra in his youth.
Richard is an experienced recorder, piano and academic music tutor, tutoring up to A-Level, and also tutoring ABRSM theory grades. He has taught lute seminars and masterclasses involving members of the student community at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance, and he also also has conducting and piano accompanimental experience, once directing a staged performance of Handel's 'The Choice of Hercules'."
