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"Nancy Hadden's reputation is established world wide for her expressive playing, engaging programmes and communicative and inspiring teaching. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, earned a BMus in performance at Ohio Wesleyan University, an MA in music history at Penn State and studied for a PhD at Washington University in St. Louis before moving to London in 1978. She has performed all over the world as a soloist and with harpsichordist Lucy Carolan and viol player Erin Headley, with Andrew Lawrence King and the Harp Consort, and with her own ensembles Circa 1500 and Zephyrus. Reviving the repertoire and playing techniques of the renaissance flute has been a major achievement, and led to her ground-breaking first recording in 1988 for Hyperion, Flute Music of the 16th and 17th Centuries. She has made some 35 solo and chamber music CDs, several winning Gramophone 'record of the year' nominations and 'critic's choice' awards, including discs of CPE Bach, Michel de la Barre, Hasse, Mozart Flute Quartets, 18th c. English Solos and Scots Tunes, and six Renaissance CDs with Circa 1500. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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