Faye Newton has a diverse repertoire ranging from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries. She is member of Philip Pickett’s New London Consort, with whom she has performed as a soloist in many prestigious venues, including the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. She has recently participated in the NLC’s world tour of Monteverdi’s Orfeo (directed by Jonathan Miller), and featured as soprano soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria at the 2008 Perth International Arts Festival (Western Australia). In January 2009 she made her solo debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in Handel’s Ode forSt Cecilia’s Day, with Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.

In 2000 she formed duo Trobairitz with vielle player Hazel Brooks to specialise in the courtly song repertory of the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. They were finalists in the Antwerp Early Music Competition in 2000 and have since performed at major early music festivals throughout Europe. Performance highlights include a tour of Slovenia, a Dutch Early Music Network tour, the Leeds International Medieval Congress and the debut performance of their ‘Medieval Femme Fatale’ programme at the York Early Music Festival, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s ‘The Early Music Show’. Their CD, ‘The Language of Love’ (songs of the troubadours and trouvères), was released on the Hyperion label in 2007 to international critical acclaim.

Faye’s other recent projects include singing in a production of ‘The Tempest’ at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, a series of Bach cantatas with the Feinstein Ensemble in St Martin-in-the-Fields, London and a number of concerts and recordings with His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, including a newly-released CD of works by Giovanni Battista Grillo. Faye also teaches Early Music vocal techniques at the University of Birmingham.