Bach at New College: Lynda Sayce and Lisete da Silva Bull

Monday, 25 May 2026, 5.30pm
The New Space, Gradel Quadrangles, Mansfield Road

Lutenist and theorbo player Lynda Sayce, and recorder player Lisete da Silva Bull perform works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Philipp Telemann. 

One of Britain's leading lutenists with over 100 recordings to her name, Lynda Sayce read Music at St Hugh's College, Oxford, then studied lute with Jakob Lindberg at the Royal College of Music. She performs regularly as soloist and continuo player with leading period instrument ensembles worldwide, is principal lutenist with The King's Consort, Ex Cathedra and the Musicians of the Globe, and has broadcast extensively on radio and TV. She is also director of the lute ensemble Chordophony, whose repertory and instrumentarium is based exclusively on her research. Equally at home working with modern instruments, Lynda has performed with many leading orchestras and opera companies including English and Welsh National Operas, Opera North, the CBSO and the Berlin Philharmonic. Her repertory spans many centuries, and her discography ranges from some of the earliest surviving lute works to the jazz theorbo part in Harvey Brough's 'Requiem in Blue'.

Portuguese-born Lisete da Silva Bull studied baroque flute and recorder at the Royal Academy of Music and now performs, records and broadcasts with many of the leading period-instrument groups and orchestras in the U.K., including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Solomon’s Knot, Ex-Cathedra the Handel Orchestra, The Musical and Amicable Society and the Brook Street Band, of which she is a core member. She is also highly sought after as a teacher and lecturer presenting lectures and masterclasses in Brazil, Slovenia, Portugal, Hull and Birmingham Universities, and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. She has recently been appointed professor of recorder and baroque flute at the newly established London Performing Academy of Music. Lisete has recorded for Naxos, Quartz, Somme, Avie and First Hand records. Her long standing love of French Baroque and Rameau has taken her to PhD research with Graham Saddler and Shirley Thompson and she has published articles in publications in Holland and the U.K.

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