Band Members Page

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Anne has been involved in a variety of music all her life, from orchestral symphonic and chamber works to Baroque ensembles, recording and arranging for studios. She has a love of traditional music and has researched 17th & 18th century music from Cheshire and Lancashire. A bass player at heart, Anne joins Piva with fiddle and bass viol to add to the buzz! She will also sing and give a blast on the shawm, smallpipes and recorders and even bang a drum when given the nod!

Tony has been playing early music and folk music for many years and is a wind instrument researcher and maker of Flutes, Baroque Bassoons, and other early musical instruments. He is the group's hurdy gurdy player as well as recorder, bagpipes, curtal, rauschpfeife, crumhorn, renaissance guitar and percussion.

Jane has been playing traditional and early music for many years and is a researcher into music and manners of the 14th to 18th Centuries. She has compiled and edited three tune books on Medieval, Renaissance and 17th century popular music. She plays various bagpipes, recorders, renaissance flute, crumhorn, shawm and curtal.

Coming from East Anglia, the early musician and pipe-maker Jim Parr is a skilled cornettist and virtuoso recorder player. He also plays many early reed instruments, such as curtal and shawm, as well as the sackbut and natural trumpet. However, his secret passion is playing the ocarina! He is a well known bagpipe maker and specialises in recreating the sound of medieval and renaissance pipes.

Sean joins Piva when we are in need of additional support in the loud winds department, especially when we are called upon to play outdoors. Sean is a professional bagpipe maker and his bagpipes are becoming well known in both the early music and folk world. His pipes are played by other members of Piva He plays a variety of bagpipes, rauschpfeifen and shawms and sometimes joins us on percussion.