Music of Time
Andrew Lawrence-King Early Harps
Soloist & Leader
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Solo recitalist
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Concerto soloist
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Leader of the Continuo
Chamber Music
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Continuo (multi-instrumentalist)
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Medieval, renaissance &
baroque ensemble-player
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Early song accompanist
Lawrence-King is in the top class of world musicians
working on any instrument, in any field.
[Boston Early Music Festival] The Boston Globe, USA
Andrew Lawrence-King made his professional debut at the BBC Promenade Concerts in 1984, playing medieval harp in the Royal Albert Hall, London. He quickly established himself as the world's foremost exponent of Early Harps, and as a uniquely multi-talented continuo-player, working with leading ensembles in England, Europe and the USA.
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Instruments [Click to view/listen, or audio on the right]
Organetto
Sinfonye
Renaissance Irish Harp [wire strung]
Italian Baroque Triple Harp [arpa doppia]
Spanish Baroque Harp [X-strung]
17th-century Irish Harp [wire-strung, chromatic]
Arpanetta [Spitzharfe]
18th-century Irish Harp [wire-strung]
18th-century 'single-action' pedal harp [harpe organisée]
Organ
Harpsichord
Modern folk harp [arpa llanera]
Solo/Chamber-music Highlights
Concerts, operas, recordings, awards
as co-director of Tragicomedia [mostly 17th-century]
Concerts, recordings & awards with Jordi Savall
Medieval concerts & recordings with Paul Hillier
Recordings of Handel Harp Concerto with
Taverner Players/Parrott
Sixteen/Christophers
The Harp Consort
Solo recordings for Hyperion & Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
Monteverdi Orfeo with Norrington, Savall, Parrott, Herreweghe etc, video recording with Savall, CD with Savall (2021), in repertoire at Theatre Sats, Moscow.
Valls Missa Scala Aretina with Stuttgart Kammerchor, Leonhardt, Savall
Vivaldi Four Seasons with Kreeta-Maria Kentala
Concerts & recordings with Les Arts Florissants/Christie
Monteverdi Vespers with Jurgens, Savall, Stuttgart Kammerchor, Dutch Bach Choir, Scholars
Concerts & recordings with The Kings Noyse
Concerts & recordings with The Kings Singers
Concerts & recordings with Earthly Angels
(music by 17th-cent nuns)
Concerts & recordings with Chris Page & with Gothic Voices
Concerts & recordings with Alamire Ensemble/Skinner
Concerts & recording with Laurie Dean (flute)
18th-century French pedal harp
Peri songs with Ellen Hargis
Murcia with Paul O'Dette
Celtic Viol with Savall & McGuire
Spanish Baroque with Xavier Diaz-Latorre
Stradavarius Harp
1681
