Patxi
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 | Patxi enjoys a busy diary as a teacher, researcher and concert artist. He has performed all over Europe and the US, both as a soloist and as a member of specialist ensembles such as The Musicians of Shakespeare’s Globe, The New London Consort, Ensemble Durendal, Sweelinck Ensemble, Sociall Musick and Passemezzo. He has recorded for BBC Radio3, Paradisum Records and ASV-Gaudeamus. In 2010 he will record a CD of seventeenth century Italian music with Tokyo-based ensemble La Sfera Musicale for Waon Records | |
| Born in Spain in 1974, Patxi graduated with distinction from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He then pursued postgraduate early music studies at Trinity College of Music (London) as a student of Alison Crum and Jennifer Ward-Clarke, and took part in the masterclasses of Jordi Savall. He is currently reading for a PhD in musicology under the supervision of Peter Holman at the University of Leeds, researching the work of 17th century viol-playing English Catholics working in Europe. |  | |
 | Patxi
is director at the Flagship Music Centre of the DaCapo Foundation, for whom he
also runs regular school workshops and teacher-training events. Patxi teaches DaCapo music at Chapel End Junior School and Wessex Gardens Primary School. In addition he is visiting professor of Early Music at the Joaquín Maya School of Music (Spain) and visiting tutor with NEEMF and the National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain. He has given lecture recitals at the Universities of Leeds and Cambridge. | |