Alison Bury – Director

Alison Bury has been involved with the British early music scene since her student days at the Royal College of Music. In the 1980s she played with all the pioneering groups including the Academy of Ancient Music, the English Concert and the English Baroque Soloists. She led the EBS until 2008, touring all over the world and recording the Mozart operas and many of Bach’s sacred choral works, including the Cantatas in the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in 2000 with Sir John Eliot Gardiner. In 1986 she was one of the founder members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. With OAE she has appeared on concert platforms throughout the British Isles, Europe and the USA as leader, soloist and director, as well as playing at Glyndebourne for many years. She now enjoys freelancing, guest leading and playing chamber music. Based in Lewes, she leads the Baroque Collective and, together with her husband, Richard Earle, is the artistic director of the Workshop Series of chamber concerts.