Continuo

As a teenager, Alistair was encouraged at the Bexley Music School to play the harpsichord (they built it from a kit) in the Baroque Orchestra.

Whilst a student at the University of Surrey, he directed small-scale orchestral pieces from the harpsichord, as well as accompanying soloists.

Repertoire

Public performances include compositions by J S Bach (Double Violin Concerto, Orchestral Suite no 3 and the St John Passion), William Boyce, G F Händel (Messiah, Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 12), Claudio Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz and Georg Philipp Telemann (Trumpet Concerto in D).

Alistair studied figured bass and repertoire with Philip Sawyer in Edinburgh.