Lisa Beznosiuk is an English flautist

Flautist

A flautist or flutist is a musician who plays an instrument in the flute family. See List of flautists.The choice of "flautist" versus "flutist" is the source of dispute among players of the instrument...

 of Ukrainian

Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...

 and Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 descent, specialising in period performance of baroque

Baroque music

Baroque music describes a style of Western Classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1760. This era follows the Renaissance and was followed in turn by the Classical era...

 and classical music on historical flutes.

Biography and career

Lisa Beznosiuk trained at the Guildhall School of Music in London

London

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, England

England

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 where she studied modern flute with Kathryn Lukas

Kathryn Lukas

Kathryn Lukas is a contemporary flute performer and teacher. She is currently Professor of Music at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University...

 and developed a great interest and love for the wooden flute, studying with Stephen Preston

Stephen Preston

Stephen Preston is an English flautist specialising in period performance of baroque and classical music on original instruments. Additionally he plays modern flute and choreographs historical forms of dance.- Biography and Career :...

. She made her solo London debut in 1983. She has been a member of period-instrument orchestras

Baroque orchestra

The Baroque orchestra is the type of orchestra that existed during the Baroque period, commonly identified as 1600-1750. Its origins were in France where Jean-Baptiste Lully added the newly re-designed hautboy and transverse flutes to his vingt-quatre violons du Roy...

 The English Concert

The English Concert

The English Concert is a baroque orchestra playing on period instruments based in London. Founded in 1972 and directed from the harpsichord by Trevor Pinnock for 30 years, it is now directed by harpsichordist Harry Bicket...

, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is a British period instrument orchestra. The OAE is a resident orchestra of the Southbank Centre, London, associate orchestra at Glyndebourne Festival Opera and has its headquarters at Kings Place...

, the English Baroque Soloists

English Baroque Soloists

The English Baroque Soloists is a chamber orchestra playing on period instruments, formed in 1978 by English conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Its repertoire comprises music from the early Baroque period to the Classical period...

, The Academy of Ancient Music, the London Classical Players

London Classical Players

The London Classical Players was a British orchestra that specialized in music following historically informed performance practices and orchestral performances on period musical instruments. Sir Roger Norrington founded the LCP in 1978. From 1978 to 1992, the concertmaster of the London...

 and New London Consort. In her roles as soloist and orchestral principal, she has travelled throughout Europe, the Far East, and North and South America.

She is professor of early flutes at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

, Royal College of Music

Royal College of Music

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, Royal Northern College of Music

Royal Northern College of Music

The Royal Northern College of Music is a music school in Manchester, England. It is located on Oxford Road in Chorlton on Medlock, at the western edge of the campus of the University of Manchester and is one of four conservatories associated with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music...

 and University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

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.

Her recordings include Handel

HANDEL

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's and Bach

Bạch

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's complete flute sonatas (with harpsichordist

Harpsichordist

A harpsichordist is a person who plays the harpsichord.Many baroque composers played the harpsichord, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel, François Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau...

 Paul Nicholson), Vivaldi's op.10 flute concertos, Bach's 'triple concerto' (BWV 1044), Brandenburg Concerto no.5 (BWV 1050) and orchestral suite no.2 (BWV 1067), all with The English Concert, Mozart's flute concertos and concerto for flute and harp

Harp

The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...

 with The Academy of Ancient Music, amongst others.

Violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

ist Pavlo Beznosiuk is her brother and she is married to cellist Richard Tunnicliffe.

Comments on her playing

• “laser-accurate articulation and her blissfully precise intonation “ Early Music Today
• “expressive and technical virtuosity of the highest order” BBC Music Magazine
• “pearly tone and breathtaking virtuosity” The Times of London
• On her musical tone: “warmest, woodiest and most alluring of them all” BBC Music Magazine

External links

• Hyperion: Lisa Beznosiuk