Deborah Roberts

As a long term member of the world-renowned Tallis Scholars Deborah Roberts has performed with them in over a 1000 concerts around the world and gained a deep insight into performing renaissance polyphony. She is also well known internationally as a choral course director and  editor of music of the 16^th and 17^th centuries. she founded and directs Musica Secreta, an ensemble of female voices and continuo that researches and performs a repertoire of richly sensuous music (both sacred and secular), much of it by women composers. Deborah became director of  the chamber choir Brighton Consort in 1998 and is founding co Artistic Director of the Brighton Early Music Festival, now the second largest festival of its kind in the UK.