CONCENTUS 7

Belinda fell in love with early music while studying modern oboe and recorder at the VCA (University of Melbourne.) She won a scholarship to study baroque and classical oboe in The Netherlands with Frank de Bruine and Ku Ebbinge, and is now based in London, playing with orchestras such as The Academy of Ancient Music (as principal and sub-principal), The Sixteen, The Gabrieli Consort and Players, La Stagione Frankfurt etc... She has recorded with the Academy of Ancient Music, Ex Cathedra and The Hanover Band; her operatic engagements include a stint at St Petersburg's Hermitage Theatre and the Utrecht Festival. She co-founded the ensemble Concentus VII, an ensemble which brings the cantatas and chamber music of the mid 18th century to new audiences, performing in pubs and cafes as well as more traditional concert venues... Concentus VII performs small scale baroque works for wind instruments, voices, strings and continuo. Our repertoire ranges from Monteverdi to C.P.E.Bach and is..