Dr David Skinner is Director of Music at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He co-founded the Cardinall's Musick

The Cardinall's Musick

The Cardinall's Musick is a United Kingdom-based vocal ensemble specialising in music of the 16th and 17th centuries and contemporary music. They have earned themselves an enviable reputation around the world both for the excellence of their voices and the way in which they work together as a...

 and Magdala

Magdala

Magdala is the name of at least two places in ancient Israel mentioned in the Jewish Talmud and one place that may be mentioned in the Christian New Testament...

.

Skinner was educated at California State University, Fresno

California State University, Fresno

California State University, Fresno, often referred to as Fresno State University and synonymously known in athletics as Fresno State , is one of the leading campuses of the California State University system, located at the northeast edge of Fresno, California, USA.The campus sits at the foot of...

, the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...

, and Christ Church

Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church or house of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England...

, Oxford from where he received his DPhil in 1995: a biography of Nicholas Ludford

Nicholas Ludford

Nicholas Ludford was an English composer of the Tudor period. He is known for his festal masses, which are preserved in two early-16th-century choirbooks, the Caius Choirbook at Caius College, Cambridge, and the Lambeth Choirbook at Lambeth Palace, London, along with those of the older composer...

 and a critical edition of Ludford's antiphons. He has taught at the universities of Oxford, Glasgow, Cambridge and Royal Holloway College. He was a member of Christ Church Cathedral choir for six years, as an academical clerk and a lay clerk.

With Andrew Carwood

Andrew Carwood

Andrew Carwood is the Director of Music at St Paul's Cathedral in London and director of his own group, The Cardinall's Musick.-Biography:He was educated at The John Lyon School, Harrow and was a choral scholar in the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge under Dr George Guest, a lay clerk at...

 he was co-founder and artistic director of the Cardinall's Musick, and produced more than 25 recordings for the group. He has been associated with a number of award-winning projects (including two Gramophone Awards and three runners up, Diapason d'Or, Deutsche Schallplatten, and a Grammy nomination).

His latest consort choir is Alamire

Alamire (consort)

Alamire is an English consort specialising in medieval and Renaissance music, both secular and religious. It was founded by David Skinner in 2005, and very swiftly has won praise for the quality and imagination of its recordings...

, which, with Fretwork the choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge won the 'Recording of the Month' award in Gramophone Magazine, for February 2008.

Books

• The Arundel Choirbook (Duke of Norfolk: Roxburghe Club, 2003).
• Nicholas Ludford I: Mass Inclina cor meum and Antiphons, Early English Church Music, 44 (London: Stainer & Bell, 2003).
• Nicholas Ludford II: Six-part Masses and Magnificat, Early English Church Music, 46 (London: Stainer & Bell, 2005).

Articles

‘The Marian Anthem in Late Medieval England’, in The Church and Mary, Studies in Church History, 39 (Boydell & Brewer, 2004), 168—80.

‘A new Elizabethan keyboard source in the archives of Arundel Castle’, BRIO, 39 (Spring/Summer, 2002), 18—25.

‘Music and the Reformation at Magdalen’, Magdalen College Record (2002), 79—83.

‘Discovering the provenance and history of the Caius and Lambeth choirbooks’, Early Music, 25 (1997), 245—66.

‘William Cornysh: Clerk or Courtier?’, The Musical Times (May, 1997), 5—17.

‘At the mynde of Nycholas Ludford: new light on Ludford from the churchwardens’ accounts of St Margaret’s, Westminster’, Early Music, 22 (1994), 393—413.

Selected Recordings

• Thomas Tallis & William Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae 1575, Alamire, Obsidian Records.
• Thomas Tomkins: These Distracted Times, Alamire, Fretwork, and the Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Obsidian Records.
• Josquin Desprez: Missa D’ung aultre amer, Motets & Chansons, Alamire, Andrew Lawrence-King, Obsidian Records.
• Philippe Verdelot: Madrigals for a Tudor King, Alamire, Obsidian Records.
• In Ages Past: Collection of Popular Hymns, Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Classical Communications, 2006.
• Music from the Court of Henry VIII, Alamire, Manus Records (2006).
• A Gift for a King: a Florentine Offering to Henry VIII, Magdala (2006).
• Music for Princes and Ambassadors, Magdala, Classical Communications, (2005).
• Sanctus, Magdala, Classical Communications, (2005).
• Christmas Meditations, Magdala, Classical Communications, (2004).
• Treasury of Saints, Magdala, Classical Communications, (2003).
• Glory of Gothic (for V&A Enterprises), Magdala, Classical Communications, (2002).
• The Byrd Edition, The Cardinall's Musick
  The Cardinall's Musick
  The Cardinall's Musick is a United Kingdom-based vocal ensemble specialising in music of the 16th and 17th centuries and contemporary music. They have earned themselves an enviable reputation around the world both for the excellence of their voices and the way in which they work together as a...
  
  , 9 CDs (of a projected 14), Sanctuary Classics, 1997—present.
• William Cornysh: Latin Church Music, The Cardinall's Musick
  The Cardinall's Musick
  The Cardinall's Musick is a United Kingdom-based vocal ensemble specialising in music of the 16th and 17th centuries and contemporary music. They have earned themselves an enviable reputation around the world both for the excellence of their voices and the way in which they work together as a...
  
  , ASV Gaudeamus Records, 1997.
• John Merbecke: Latin Church Music, The Cardinall's Musick
  The Cardinall's Musick
  The Cardinall's Musick is a United Kingdom-based vocal ensemble specialising in music of the 16th and 17th centuries and contemporary music. They have earned themselves an enviable reputation around the world both for the excellence of their voices and the way in which they work together as a...
  
  , ASV Gaudeaumus Records, 1996.
• Robert Fayrfax: Collected works, The Cardinall's Musick
  The Cardinall's Musick
  The Cardinall's Musick is a United Kingdom-based vocal ensemble specialising in music of the 16th and 17th centuries and contemporary music. They have earned themselves an enviable reputation around the world both for the excellence of their voices and the way in which they work together as a...
  
  , 5-CD set, ASV Gaudeamus Records, 1995—99.
• Nicholas Ludford: Collected works, The Cardinall's Musick
  The Cardinall's Musick
  The Cardinall's Musick is a United Kingdom-based vocal ensemble specialising in music of the 16th and 17th centuries and contemporary music. They have earned themselves an enviable reputation around the world both for the excellence of their voices and the way in which they work together as a...
  
  , 4-CD set, ASV Gaudeamus Records, 1993—94.

External links

• http://www.alamire.co.uk/