# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-skinner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:35:36.389Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-skinner"
name: "David Skinner"
slug: "david-skinner"
description: "David Skinner is a British musicologist and choir director. He works at the University of Cambridge, where he is the director of music at Sidney Sussex College and is an affiliated lecturer, teaching historical and practical topics from the medieval and Renaissance periods. He is the founder of the vocal consort Alamire, and the cofounder of the vocal ensembles Magdala and The Cardinall's Musick. He has produced more than 25 recordings. He has been associated with a number of award-winning projects."
tagline: "British musicologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1964"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.35
  momentum:             3.564356435643564
  historical:           3.750505333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Skinner_(musicologist)"
    title: "David Skinner (musicologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Skinner"
    title: "David Skinner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e367da74-8582-498d-9530-bba109d4cc85"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1386455"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5239850"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations