JOHN POTTER

Great Britain

Workshop for singers and vocal ensembles
Introductory lecture on Singing Early Music in the 21st Century

Applications for active or passive participation should be sent to Domen Marinčič before 5 August. Harpsichord accompaniment will be provided. For additional information please contact E domen.marincic@web.de
T +386 1 432 42 58 M +386 31 849 498

The course fee is 30 EUR for active and 20 EUR for passive participants.

John Potter's performing career began in the seventies, when he found himself singing with Ward Swingle's English group known as Swingle II. In rapid succession he co-founded and then left the avant-garde group Electric Phoenix, and briefly joined the New London Consort. After an excursion into backing vocals for Manfred Mann, the Who and Mike Oldfield (among others) and deputising in sundry early music groups, he joined the Hilliard Ensemble in 1984 and stayed there for 17 years, working closely with such figures as Arvo Pärt, Manfred Eicher, Jan Garbarek and Peter Erskine. In 1989 he started Red Byrd with the bass Richard Wistreich as a way of exploring other performance possibilities. During this time he completed a PhD at the Open University with Richard Middleton, the fruits of which became his first book Vocal Authority (Cambridge University Press) in 1998. On leaving the Hilliard Ensemble he started the Dowland Project, which has now made three albums for ECM (one of which was a Sunday Times record of the year) with another still to come. John's current projects include several new ventures: Being Dufay (with electro-acoustic composer Ambrose Field) and the Ciconia Ensemble (with Anna Maria Friman, Susanna Pell and Jacob Heringman), as well as his ongoing work with the Gavin Bryars Ensemble and duos with lutenist Ariel Abramovich and harpist Jan Walters. His most recent book is Tenor: History of a Voice (Yale University Press, 2009) and his next recording will be of sacred music by Josquin Desprez in versions for 2 voices and 2 vihuelas.

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