Viols

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Chris Terepin performs on both bass and treble viols in a range of professional contexts, including appearing as a guest with renowned consort Phantasm, performing chamber and virtuoso music with harpsichordist Nathaniel Mander, and working with larger groups Figure Ensemble, Three Parts Vied, and K’antu Ensemble. He regularly performs in Bach’s St. Matthew and St. John Passions as cellist doubling viola da gamba.

He began learning the viol in 2009 as a student of Laurence Dreyfus at Magdalen College, Oxford, and continued private studies with Jonathan Manson (also of Phantasm). He plays a bass viol by Marc Soubeyran, made in 2018.

“Chris has played in a number of performances with Liverpool Bach Collective since 2018. His sensitive and musical playing, particularly of the viola da gamba, has contributed a great deal especially to performances of the Bach Passions.”

— PHILIP DUFFY (former Director of Music, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral)