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Peter Holman

English conductor and musicologist · United Kingdom · On the map · Musicians · Born 1946 · age 80

Peter Kenneth Holman MBE is an English conductor and musicologist best known for reviving the music of Purcell and his English contemporaries.

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Derek Allen Prize1995
Member of the Order of the British Empire

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Holman, with the ensemble The Parley of Instruments made many of the extensive series of recordings of lesser-known English baroque music on Hyperion Records in that label's English Orpheus series from 1980 to 2010. The ensemble was co-founded in 1979 by Holman and the violinist Roy Goodman. Holman and the ensemble now record on the Chandos Classics label.

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United Kingdom
Category
Musicians
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Singer / Musician
Status
Living
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Born 1946 · age 80

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