music for flute & strings on period instruments

Richard Wade gained a first-class honours degree in music at Sheffield University where he won prizes for outstanding achievement.  He then obtained a masters degree in early music at the University of Bristol where he studied baroque violin with Catherine Macintosh.  

 

He has toured Europe with the European Union Baroque Orchestra and has recorded for Granada and Thames Television.  He is also in demand as a chamber musician and in period instrument orchestras and has recorded chamber music on CD with Charivari Agreable and The Galeazzi Ensemble.  He is also a highly regarded teacher and has recently had his first book of violin pieces for intermediate students published.

 

Richard plays on a violin from Bavaria circa 1720 and with a bow by Dodd circa 1790.