Historical musical instruments provide an opportunity to explore their social contexts and their symbolic role in art. Sophie takes selected works and will give us live demonstrations on replica instruments depicted in the works of art. This will prove to be a very interesting and varied lecture.
THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER
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Miss Sophie Matthews
Sophie is a musician well-known for her prowess on the English border bagpipes and has become one of the foremost players of the instrument in the UK. She also plays a variety of early woodwind instruments such as shawm, rauschpfeife, crumhorm and recorder. She’s also one of a handful of British players of the baroque musette, an 18th century French bagpipe similar to the Northumbrian smallpipes.
When not touring with GreenMatthews, Sophie also makes instruments (she made her own baroque oboe) and works with respected luthier Tony Millyard on his flutes. Sophie is self-taught on all of her instruments.
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