WILLIAM HUNT Artistic director
Starting his professional career as a viol player, William Hunt was a founder member of the viol consort Fretwork and for many years a member of the chamber ensemble London Baroque, in which he developed his interest in violones. He has been principal violone with the Dunedin Consort and has frequently made guest appearances as a specialist violone and viol player with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Taverner Consort and many other period instrument orchestras and ensembles. Over the years he has held teaching posts at several music conservatories. During 2002 he was professor of viols and violone at Birmingham Conservatoire and was subsequently professor of violone at the Royal College of Music. In 1989 he launched Fretwork Editions, a specialist publisher of viol-related music, of which he is director and general editor, with a particular interest in researching the history and performance practice of the English verse anthem. In recent years he has directed and taught on residential courses and workshops in the UK, US and in Europe, and in 2022 he completed PhD doctoral research at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire into performance of the Pre-Restoration consort anthem.
Starting his professional career as a viol player, William Hunt was a founder member of the viol consort Fretwork and for many years a member of the chamber ensemble London Baroque, in which he developed his interest in violones. He has been principal violone with the Dunedin Consort and has frequently made guest appearances as a specialist violone and viol player with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Taverner Consort and many other period instrument orchestras and ensembles. Over the years he has held teaching posts at several music conservatories. During 2002 he was professor of viols and violone at Birmingham Conservatoire and was subsequently professor of violone at the Royal College of Music. In 1989 he launched Fretwork Editions, a specialist publisher of viol-related music, of which he is director and general editor, with a particular interest in researching the history and performance practice of the English verse anthem. In recent years he has directed and taught on residential courses and workshops in the UK, US and in Europe, and in 2022 he completed PhD doctoral research at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire into performance of the Pre-Restoration consort anthem.