Andrew Skidmore plays Bach Cello Suites

Andrew Skidmore plays Bach's Cello Suites 1, 3 & 5 in the first of this year's Old Chapel Court Concerts in Tewkesbury's Old Baptist Chapel
About this Event

Andrew Skidmore enjoys a varied career performing on both period and modern instruments. He has been cellist of the Salomon String Quartet since 2010, before which he spent three years as cellist of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet.

Andrew’s interest in historical performance spans from the 17th to 20th centuries. He is a member and regular guest principal of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, principal with Collegium Musicum 90 and Ex Cathedra and plays regularly as a guest principal, continuo cellist and in chamber music with groups including the Dunedin Consort, Arcangelo, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Early Opera Company, The Mozartists, Music for Awhile, The Academy of Ancient Music, Irish Baroque Orchestra, The Sixteen, Ensemble Marsyas and Taverner Consort and Players.

On the modern cello he performs regularly as a guest with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, as a member of Sir András Schiff’s Cappella Andrea Barca and has been invited as a guest principal with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia and Haydn Philharmonie, Eisenstadt.

Andrew studied at New College, Oxford and the Royal Academy of Music, London. He now teaches at the Royal Academy of Music and has taught and given classes at the University of Cambridge.