Liam Byrne

Liam Byrne is an active performer on all shapes and sizes of viol-family instruments. Recent engagements have taken him everywhere from Honolulu to Moscow to Chipping Campden, including concerts with the viol consorts Fretwork, Phantasm and Concordia, the Dunedin Consort and the BBC Singers. Liam’s interests are particularly strong in the viol consort, French baroque and lyra viol repertories. He took his BMus in viola da gamba with Wendy Gillespie at Indiana University, and is currently a Clarendon Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, reading for the MPhil in Musicology and Performance. His research focuses on fifteenth-century instrumental music and the relationship between notation and performance. Last summer, Liam was awarded a Frank Huntington Beebe grant to continue his musical studies with Laurence Dreyfus.