Nancy Hadden

New release - Psallite women's choir: Ceremonies of Carols Christmas CD

"...Captivated the audience with compelling performances and effortless virtuosity..."
BBC Music Magazine

Nancy Hadden's reputation is established world wide for her expressive playing, engaging programmes and communicative and inspiring teaching. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, earned a BMus in performance at Ohio Wesleyan University, an MA in music history at Penn State and studied for a PhD at Washington University in St. Louis before moving to London in 1978. She has performed all over the world as a soloist and with harpsichordist Lucy Carolan and viol player Erin Headley, with Andrew Lawrence King and the Harp Consort, and with her own ensembles Circa 1500 and Zephyrus. Reviving the repertoire and playing techniques of the renaissance flute has been a major achievement, and led to her ground-breaking first recording in 1988 for Hyperion, Flute Music of the 16th and 17th Centuries. She has made some 35 solo and chamber music CDs, several winning Gramophone 'record of the year' nominations and 'critic's choice' awards, including discs of CPE Bach, Michel de la Barre, Hasse, Mozart Flute Quartets, 18th c. English Solos and Scots Tunes, and six Renaissance CDs with Circa 1500. Recent world festival appearances include Prague Spring, Vancouver, York, Aldeburgh, Boston, Tokyo, Seattle, Utrecht, Flanders, Magnano, Regensburg, Warsaw, Amiens, South Bank London. In July she performed French baroque chamber music for the prestigious BBC Radio 3 Promenade Concerts with Lucy Carolan, Erin Headley, violinist Alison Bury and soprano Sophie Daneman. She has recently returned from a USA tour with the Harp Consort and in November gave a solo recital at the early music series at the Brussels Museum of Musical Instruments accompanied by harpist Andrew Lawrence King. Nancy Hadden teaches at the Guildhall School of Music in London, Malmö Conservatory in Sweden, the Edinburgh Flute Course and the Valtice Summer School in the Czech Republic. She is an editor of early flute music and has contributed chapters on renaissance flute playing for the Cambridge University Press Flute Companion and From Renaissance to Baroque, Proceedings of the NEMA Conference, to be published by Ashgate. Her Stoke Newington women's choir, Psallite, recently recorded a CD, Ceremonies of Carols, with medieval carols and Britten's Ceremony of Carols, which is available from the recordings page on this web site.

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