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Band Members
Eric Moulder
Piva’s founder and director
of music. He is an internationally renowned maker and researcher in the field
of historic woodwind instruments from the Renaissance period. 
He
provides many of the instruments played by the group and is responsible for creating
many of the musical arrangements. Eric plays curtal, bagpipes, recorder, shawm,
rauschpfeife and crumhorn.
Anne Wride
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 Millyard
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 Moulder
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
four tune books on Medieval, Renaissance and 17th century popular music. She
plays various bagpipes, recorders, renaissance flute, crumhorn, shawm and curtal.
Jim Parr
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 and shawm
maker and specialises in recreating the sound of medieval and renaissance pipes.
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Chris Green and Sophie Matthews
We are always delighted to be joined by our associate
musicians, Chris Green and Sophie Matthews. With Piva, Chris plays Renaissance
Guitar and Percussion and Sophie plays Bagpipes, Shawm, Recorder, Rauschpfeife
and Hurdy Gurdy. Both are consummate musicians and performers and they also
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Performance Programmes
