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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Ludford: Missa Benedicta et venerabilis
The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood, David Skinner
Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) on 1 Jan 1993
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Solace: Music for quiet meditation (David Skinner)
Classical - Released by The Gift of Music on 27 Feb 2012
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Renaissance Music - Holborne, A. / Dowland, J. / Henry Viii / Rosseter, P. / Prioris, J. (Good Companye - Great Music From A Tudor Court) (Antony Holborne - Anonymous - John Dowland)
Classical - Released by The Gift of Music on 1 Jan 2008
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Missa Fors seulement: V. Agnus Dei
The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, David Skinner
Classical - Released by Inventa Records on 2 Jun 2023
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Ludford: Missa Videte miraculum; Ave cuius conceptio
The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood, David Skinner
Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) on 1 Jan 1993
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Victorian Carols with Readings from Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
Classical - Released by The Gift of Music on 4 Jan 2011
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Fayrfax: Missa Regali ex progenie; Lauda vivi Alpha et O; Magnificat Regali
The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood, David Skinner
Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) on 18 May 1999
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Ludford: Missa Christi virgo dilectissima; Domine Ihesu Christe
The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood, David Skinner
Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) on 1 Jan 1994
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Fayrfax: Missa Tecum principium; Maria plena virtute etc
The Cardinall's Musick, The Frideswide Consort, Andrew Carwood, David Skinner
Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) on 14 Nov 1995
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When First by Force a5
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Classical - Released by Inventa Records on 31 Mar 2023
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All As a Sea
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Ribera: Magnificat quartus tonus I
Classical - Released by Hyperion on 29 Jul 2016
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Choral Concert: Oxford Girls' Choir - FAYRFAX, R. / REDFORD, J. / HENRY V / LAMBE, W. / TAVERNER, J. / PRESTON, T. (Heavenly Voices) (William Cornysh (II) - Anonymous - Robert Fayrfax)
Classical - Released by The Gift of Music on 1 Jan 2007
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CHRISTMAS MEDITATIONS (Magdala, Skinner) (Anonymous - Robert Fayrfax)
Classical - Released by The Gift of Music on 1 Jan 2004
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Ribera: Magnificats & Motets
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Ribera: Magnificat quartus tonus I
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Ghost
Alternative & Indie - Released by 2008055 Records DK on 5 May 2020
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Crown Jewel (Raw Acoustic)
Alternative & Indie - Released by 2008055 Records DK on 10 Mar 2022
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Phantasmagoria
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Jazz - Released by Pling Music on 27 Apr 2006
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