LIZZIE GUTTERIDGE

Lizzie took up playing shawm as a part of the historical re-enactment movement to re-form Waits bands, then decided to pursue it further and make it her main occupation. She plays a wide range of historical instruments, including bagpipes, recorders, curtals, fiddles and aulos.

As well as being a regular member of Blondel, The York Waits and the New Cambridge Waits, Lizzie's engagements have included the Globe's “Nell Gwynn”, both on tour and in the West End, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle” at the Wanamaker Theatre, performances in Morocco and London with Passamezzo, large scale events at Hampton Court and the Tower of London as well as TV appearances on “Thronecast – Gameshow of Thrones” and “A Merry Tudor Christmas with Lucy Worsley” and live & recorded performances on bagpipe of Gregory Rose’s “Dance Macabre”. She recently performed a specially composed work for 'cello and aulos in the National Gallery as part of their “Utterly in the picture” series. Lizzie's solo project “Consort of 1” combines early music on historical instruments with the use of live looping equipment which allows layering of parts to show Medieval and Renaissance melodies from a new perspective. She also runs the Colchester Waits; a community shawm band welcoming people of all ages, abilities and musical backgrounds, and makes reeds for shawms, curtals, crumhorns and sordunes.