Blackdowns Early Music Projects – Crispian Steele-Perkins and David Hill

We are absolutely thrilled and greatly honoured to be able to bring these two
supremely accomplished musicians to Culmstock.

Crispian Steele-Perkins has received widespread critical acclaim
as a trumpet player with a purity of tone and artistic subtlety
second to none. He collects and restores antique trumpets upon
which he has performed and recorded with The Academy of
Ancient Music, The Kings Consort and The English Baroque Soloists.
Appropriately, he plays the theme tune to one of the BBC’s l
longest-running and most popular TV programmes, the Antiques
Roadshow, among many other screen credits. We look forward to
his visit as much for his playing as his renowned enthusiasm and wit.
David Hill is a world renowned conductor and organist, a Fellow
of the Royal College of Organists at the age of just 17. His many
posts have included Sub-Organist at Durham Cathedral, Master of the
Music at Winchester Cathedral (1987-2002), Master of the Music at
Westminster Cathedral, Associate Conductor and then Artistic Director of
the Philharmonia Chorus (1986-1997), Director of Music at John’s College,
Cambridge (2003-2007). He was appointed 9th Musical Director of The BBC
Singers, is Musical Director of The Bach Choir and directs several other
prestigious organisations here and abroad,
As an organist, David Hill has given recitals in most of the major
venues in the UK and has toured extensively abroad – and now appears
with Crispian in All Saints’ Culmstock.