Catherine Liddell

Known and sought after for her skill, sensitivity and experience as a continuo player, Ms. Catherine Liddell has performed with many of America’s leading period instrument ensembles, including Boston Baroque, the Handel & Haydn Society, Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland), Tafelmusik (Toronto), Seattle Baroque Orchestra, and in the Aston Magna and the Boston Early Music Festivals. Performances with the Boston Early Music Festival include productions of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Lully’s Thesé, and Psychée. She performed in the Boston Lyric Opera production of Handel’s Agrippina, and in the US Premier of Heiner Goebbel’s Songs of War I Have Seen with the London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. With soprano Sally Sanford, she founded Ensemble Chanterelle, winner of 1983 Concert Artist Guild Award, and for 2 years Ensemble-in-Residence at UCLA. Recordings include Marais at Midnight with viola da gambist Laura Jeppesen, released in 2021.

Ms. Liddell’s special interest in 17th century French lute music resulted in a recording devoted to the music of Jacques Gallot: La belle voilée: 17th Century French Lute Music by Jacques Gallot and others also on the Centaur label. Other recording projects have included Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Händel’s The Triumph of Time and Truth with Music from Aston Magna; Bonporti Motets with soprano Ellen Hargis; Bononcini Sonatas and Cantatas with Brent Wissick, cello and viola da gamba and Sally Sanford, soprano; among other recordings. She is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Aston Magna Foundation for Music and the Humanities and is serving her second term as President of the Lute Society of America.

Publications

Publications include “Sacred Music for Lute”, available through Lyre Music Publications, Fort Worth, Texas, and “German Tablature Made Easy..er” available at The Lute Society of America.