Tessera Viol Consort
Chris Terepin | Kate Conway | Miriam Nohl
Viols
Tessera Viol Consort brings together some of the leading viol players of the new generation. Founded in 2024, the group explores the magical way in which consort music encourages distinct musical personalities to emerge from gloriously blended resonances.
About the players
Chris Terepin
Chris Terepin is a versatile string player and academic. An unusual combination of modern cellist and viol player, his musicianship transcends divisions between ‘early music’ and ‘mainstream performance’ in favour of imagination, experimentation, and collaboration. Since 2012 Chris has been the cellist of the Florian Ensemble – described as “truly outstanding chamber music” – and has worked with period instrument groups including Phantasm and Fretwork viol consorts, Figure Ensemble, K’antu Ensemble, The Hanover Band, and Manchester Baroque. He has appeared at Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Cadogan Hall, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and many UK music societies, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Chris studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, learning the cello with Raphael Wallfisch and Philip Higham and the viol with Laurence Dreyfus and Jonathan Manson. He also holds a PhD in musicology and has taught at King’s College London.
Kate Conway
Kate Conway studied the viola da gamba and baroque cello with Jonathan Manson at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with distinction, after gaining first-class honours in Classics from Jesus College, Cambridge. She has played with the English Baroque Soloists and English Touring Opera, and is a former member of the Handel House Talent Scheme. A keen chamber musician, Kate performs regularly with Ensemble Molière, Chelys Consort of Viols, and is a founder member of Ceruleo, who have appeared at the York Early Music Christmas Festival and Baroque at the Edge.
Kate was twice awarded the RAM Nancy Nuttall Ensemble Prize, and has participated in masterclasses at the Greenwich International Early Music Festival and RCM Festival of Viols, playing to Christophe Coin, Alison Crum, Vittorio Ghielmi, Paolo Pandolfo and Jordi Savall. More recent projects include a performance at the Wigmore Hall with Chelys as part of Dame Emma Kirkby’s 70th birthday celebrations, chamber music recitals at festivals in the Lake District and Brecon, and live broadcasts on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ with Ceruleo and Ensemble Molière.
Miriam Nohl, Treble and Bass Viols
Northumbrian cellist and viola da gamba player, Miriam Nohl, was an undergraduate at York University before she completed a Masters at the Royal Academy of Music. Miriam graduated in 2019 and has since been enjoying playing for numerous Early Music groups across the UK such as Instruments of Time and Truth, Eboracum Baroque, and further afield at the DAVOS international festival in Switzerland! A highlight for Miriam was performing Dido and Aeneas with La Nuova Musica at the BBC proms. She is currently enjoying being Stoller Hall Young Artist, and was a Brighton Early Music Festival Young Artist with The Portrait Players 2023-2024. As well as playing a variety of period bass instruments, Miriam teaches strings for the Music in Secondary Schools charity, in schools across london, and is currently on the Live Music Now scheme where she performs in care homes and schools.
Upcoming performances
17th August 2025
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
St Michael and All Angels Church
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