Member
Contact Information
erinheadley@gmail.comhttp://www.atalante.co.uk
Location
Weare, New Hampshire
Early Music Skills & Interests
Other Bowed Strings, Viola Da Gamba
Early Music Affiliations
Biography
Thirty years of performing with Tragicomedia and Les Arts Florissants, among
others, countless recordings on major labels, and her unique status as the world’s
leading authority on the lirone have made Erin Headley preeminent in the field
of early music. She reintroduced the instrument and its Roman repertoire to the
world with her ensemble, Atalante, whose first CD was awarded a Diapason
D’Or in 2015.
Erin’s work was generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
Council UK (2007– 2012) with a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of
Southampton. In 2013 she was musician in residence at Villa I Tatti, Harvard
University’s Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. Iain Fenlon (Early
Music Journal) said of her work: “Erin Headley must be congratulated for
bringing together musicianship and scholarship in a way that is a
milestone,…truly revelatory; a more powerful and persuasive advocacy for these
pieces could hardly be imagined.“
