Belinda Sykes & JOGLARESA
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Belinda Sykes - voice, director
As an oboist she has played for the Gabrieli Consort, English Concert, King’s Consort, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Age of Enlightenment, and The Hanover Band, and won the 1990 Reichenberg Award for Baroque Oboe. She has also collaborated with many composers including Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Dominic Muldowney, Trevor Jones, Howard Shore, Adrian Johnston and Jocelyn Pook. Belinda has a Masters Degree in Ethnomusicology/Arabic music from London University's School of Oriental and African Studies and is Professor of Medieval Song at Trinity College of Music. Link to Belinda Sykes 'ethnic' session singer page + voice demo mp3s |
Belinda Sykes, raised on a pure diet of English folk song, is now an international concert and recording soloist. She studied voice and improvisation in Morocco, Bulgaria, Syria, Spain and India; oboe and recorder at the Guildhall School of Music. She has recorded and sung solo with Red Byrd, New London Consort, Tragicomedia, Harp Consort, Paul O’Dette, Ensemble Unicorn and Oni Wytars, and is the soloist on Karl Jenkins' new album Stabat Mater, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. She has also sung solo on soundtracks with artists as diverse as Ladysmith Black Mambazo, The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (soloist on the BBC's Planet Earth documentaries) and the Master Musicians of Joujouka.