La Romanesca
(ensemble)

La Romanesca has been a leading force in early music in Australia since 1978, and has developed a special interest in the performance of medieval monophonic and polyphonic song, although the group's repertory spans the twelfth to seventeenth centuries. La Romanesca has toured widely thoughout Europe, the United States and Asia, appearing at major festivals at home and abroad.

Hartley Newham performs music ranging from Troubadour songs to the avant-garde. He has performed and broadcast in many major European mudical centres and, together with pianist Nicholas Routley, has premiered many new works.

Ruth Wilkinson specialised in the study of recorder, viola da gamba, violone and ensemble performance at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis under Hans Martin Linde, Jordi Savall andJaap Schroeder. In addition to her work with La Romanesca, she is a member of the leading baroque ensemble Capella Corelli.

Ros Bandt plays renaissance and baroque recorders, renaissance flute, psaltery and percussion. She is also renowned in the area of new music as a composer, performer and sound sculptor, having performed her own original music in Europe and America, and recorded several works for Move.

John Griffiths specialises in the performance of early plucked instruments and is an authority on early Spanish music, a field in which his musicological research is widely published. He co-directs the Fourteenth Century Recording Project (see md3091, 3092, 3093, 3094), and is Reader in Music at The University of Melbourne.