David Skinner
David Skinner has achieved equal renown as a choral conductor and a musicologist. He is a co-founder of The Cardinall's Musick and Alamire, both prominent British groups in the early music field.
Skinner was born in 1964 in California and attended California State University, Fresno. He moved to Britain in 1987 to pursue a master's degree in music at Edinburgh University, and he has lived in the U.K. since then. From Edinburgh, he went on to Oxford, where he studied musicology, earning a doctorate in 1995 for a thesis on the music of composer Nicholas Ludford. He also sang in the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford and became interested in the performance of choral music. In 1989, he and a fellow Lay Clerk at Oxford, Andrew Carwood, founded the vocal ensemble The Cardinall's Musick. As the name suggested, the group specialized in English Catholic composers of the Renaissance. The pair were a productive team, with Carwood often conducting and Skinner doing research, teaching singers to perform from period notation (he continues to give classes in this subject), and making new editions of music by Ludford and others.
Skinner also served as producer for the more than 25 recordings made by The Cardinall's Musick, mostly on the ASV label. In 2005, Skinner formed a new group, Alamire, whose repertory extends back to the medieval era. That group has also recorded prolifically for Obsidian, Hyperion, Resonus Classics, and other labels. In 2020, Skinner and Alamire released Media vita in morte sumus, an album devoted to the music of John Sheppard; the album was part of a projected 30-release series exploring English music between 1400 and 1700. Skinner and Alamire recorded a pair of albums during the COVID-19 pandemic; Byrd 1588 and Byrd 1589 were devoted to the contents of publications by William Byrd and were released on Inventa Records in 2021 and 2023, respectively. Skinner has continued to teach and to practice musicology, issuing a new edition of the music of Thomas Tallis. He is the director of music at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. His son, Robin Daniel Skinner, makes rock and pop music in Britain under the name Cavetown.
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Madrigaux pour le Roi Tudor
Classical - Released by Obsidian on 1 Jan 2007
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Cornysh, Turges, Prentes: Latin Church Music
The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood, David Skinner
Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) on 1 Jun 1997
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Ludford: Missa Lapidaverunt Stephanum; Ave Maria ancilla trinitatis
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Fayrfax: Miss Albanus; O Maria Deo grata; Eterne laudis lilium etc
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Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) on 1 Nov 1996
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Mine Eyes With Fervency of Sprite
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Classical - Released by Inventa Records on 19 Mar 2021
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Henry VIII: Choral and Instrumental Music
Classical - Released by The Gift of Music on 1 Jan 2006
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Grant the King a long life (Thomas Weelkes)
Classical - Released by Obsidian on 26 Mar 2012
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Byrd: Cantiones sacrae 1589; Propers for the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Byrd Edition 8)
The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood, David Skinner
Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) on 4 Nov 2002
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Deo gracias Anglia!
Classical - Released by Obsidian on 3 Sep 2012
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Byrd: Early Latin Church Music; Propers for Lady Mass in Advent (Byrd Edition 1)
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Missa Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen: II. Gloria
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Fayrfax: Missa O quam glorifica; Ave Dei patris filia
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Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) on 20 Jun 1995
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Magnificat - Beautiful and Calming Choral Music (Jacobus Clemens non Papa - Anonymous)
Classical - Released by The Gift of Music on 1 Jan 2008
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PALESTRINA, G.P. da: Choral Music (Great Renaissance Church Music) (Magdala, Skinner)
Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by The Gift of Music on 1 Jan 2006
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Great Choral Classics (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
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Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae 1575 (Byrd Edition 4)
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Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) on 1 Nov 1999
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In Fields Abroad
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Classical - Released by Inventa Records on 12 Mar 2021
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A Gift for A King - Music for Henry VIII ( Anonymous - Philippe Verdelot - Claudin de Sermisy)
Classical - Released by The Gift of Music on 1 Jan 2006
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CHANTS FOR MEDITATION (Agnus Dei - The Feast of the Blessed Sacrament of Corpus Christi) (Magdala, Skinner)
Classical - Released by The Gift of Music on 1 Jan 2006
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Choral Music (Renaissance) - SERMISY, C. de / DULOT, F. / LASSO, O. di / GUERRERO, F. / VICTORIA, T.L. de / TALLIS, T. (Magdala, Skinner) (Anonymous - Claudin de Sermisy)
Classical - Released by The Gift of Music on 1 Jan 2005
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Merbecke: Missa Per arma iustitie etc.
The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood, David Skinner
Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) on 1 Jul 1996
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