LYRA WAY
LYRA WAY performs the reperoire for two viols from 17th c. England in the style called “lyra way” where the players use bowed chords to accompany bowed melodies, creating exquisite and complex polyphony. Champion of the lyra viol, the English composer and soldier Tobias Hume, had ongoing public exchanges with extraordinary composer and lutenist John Dowland as to which instrument, the lute or the viol, was more noble.
Niccolo Seligmann
Photo by Corbin Phillips
Lisa Terry
Photo by Paul Ross
NICCOLO SELIGMANN (they/them) is currently the most widely-heard medieval fiddler in the world, featured in soundtracks from Netflix’s The Witcher, Firaxis Games’ Civilization VI, Obsidian Entertainment’s Pentiment, and many more big-budget and indie games, film, and streaming series. Niccolo’s opera & live theatre music includes Julie Monster: A Queer Baroque Opera, An Iliad, Minerva: Times Change, and a full-length electronic dance remix of Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet. They perform diverse genres nationally with early & traditional music ensembles Alkemie, The Broken Consort, Concordian Dawn, Eya, Hesperus, Washington Bach Consort, and Wherligig. When not touring with their ensembles or recording soundtracks, Niccolo can be found gleefully recording harsh noise, lo-fi dance music, glitchcore, and drone metal in their home studio in the forests of central Maryland. They hold a B.M. in Viola da gamba Performance from Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.
LISA TERRY (she/her) is an avid chamber music performer and soloist on viola da gamba and violoncello. A member of Parthenia Viol Consort, she also performs Dryden Ensemble, Pegasus Early Music and TENET. She is principal cellist and viol soloist with Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia’s baroque orchestra. Lisa was a founding member of ARTEK, and has performed with the New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Concert Royal. She has appeared to great acclaim as soloist in the Passions of J.S. Bach and in Richard Einhorn’s “Voices of Light” and she tours in recital with harpsichordists Joanne Kong and Webb Wiggins. Her first solo album, the suites for viol and harpsichord by François Couperin, will be released 2025.
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