Born in Guernsey, now based in Tallinn, Estonia – award-winning Baroque opera, orchestral and ensemble director; imaginative continuo-player; Early Harp virtuoso; specialist in baroque gesture and Historical Action; investigator of Flow; opera composer; Andrew Lawrence-King is the doyen of historical harping, one of the world’s leading performers of Early Music, and an internationally renowned scholar.

His pioneering recordings of Trabaci, Ribayaz, Handel and Carolan re-established the lost worlds of Italian, Spanish, Anglo-Welsh and Irish baroque harps; as co-director of Tragicomedia and director of The Harp Consort, he led a revolution in historically informed improvisation and continuo-playing; his research into Tactus has redefined our understanding of baroque rhythm; as guest director and teacher, he inspires musicians around the world to reach new levels of technical precision and stylish historicity with fun, energy and passion.