Alison Crum is one of the best-known British exponents of the viol. As teacher, performer, and moving spirit behind several well-known early music groups, she has travelled all over the world giving recitals and lectures and teaching on summer schools and workshops. She started playing the viol at Univeristy, and later went on to study with Wieland Kuijken and Jordi Savall. Since then she has made over one hundred recordings with some of Britain's finest ensembles, including many with the Rose Consort of Viols, but also as a soloist on discs of Marais, Bach, virtuoso Italian divisions, and on a duo CD with Roy Marks, playing on a variety of renaissance viols.
Alison has been President of the Viola da Gamba Society of Great Britain since 1997. She was Professor of Viol at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London, where she trained many of today's younger professionals over a period of more than 30 years. She is a visiting teacher at colleges and universities in Europe and the USA, and continues to direct many courses for amateur players. Alison is the author of two highly acclaimed books on playing the viol, and has been called the doyenne of British viol teachers.
