Randall
Cook, originally from the United States of America, studied oboe at the
Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Yale
University. In 1977 he moved to Basel, Switzerland, to study viola da
gamba with Jordi Savall and medieval studies with Andrea von Ramm and
Sterling Jones at the Schola Cantorum Basliensis. Since 1980 he has been
on the faculty of the Schola, for medieval and Renaissance music. He is
one of the founding members of the “Ferrara Ensemble” and has often
worked with “Ensemble Binchois”. He is also a founding member of “the
Earle his Viols”, a Renaissance gamba consort devoted to research into
the earlier repertoire for gamba consort. Recently he has apprenticed as
an oboe maker with Bernhard Schermer, and is now the proud owner of the
enterprise. His concerts have taken him throughout Europe, the Far East
and Japan. He has recorded for Virgin Records, Harmonia Mundi, Raumklang,
Arcana, Astrée and Erato.
Randall
Cook, originally from the United States of America, studied oboe at the
Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Yale
University. In 1977 he moved to Basel, Switzerland, to study viola da
gamba with Jordi Savall and medieval studies with Andrea von Ramm and
Sterling Jones at the Schola Cantorum Basliensis. Since 1980 he has been
on the faculty of the Schola, for medieval and Renaissance music. He is
one of the founding members of the “Ferrara Ensemble” and has often
worked with “Ensemble Binchois”. He is also a founding member of “the
Earle his Viols”, a Renaissance gamba consort devoted to research into
the earlier repertoire for gamba consort. Recently he has apprenticed as
an oboe maker with Bernhard Schermer, and is now the proud owner of the
enterprise. His concerts have taken him throughout Europe, the Far East
and Japan. He has recorded for Virgin Records, Harmonia Mundi, Raumklang,
Arcana, Astrée and Erato.