New album release from alumni

Alumni Andrew Arceci (Magdalen, 2011) and Chris Ferebee (St Hilda's, 2010) have released a new album with Floyds Row, a folk collective that evolved from a series of concerts at the University of Oxford (and is so named after the street that ran adjacent to the Music Faculty at its former site on St Aldate's). 

The Carlisle Sessions, released by Big Round Records (PARMA Recordings), is described as an album that unearths and brushes the dust off of musical relics and freshens them anew with contemporary folk-classical flair, reviving five musical tales that tell epic tales of swashbuckling, recount the tale of Robin Hood, and inspired George Washington to cut a rug. It features soprano Emily Noël, violinist Asako Takeuchi, accordionist George Lykogiannis, Chris Ferebee on cittern, guitar, and mandolin, Andrew Arceci on viola da gamba and upright bass, and George Lernis on percussion.

Chris Ferebee is a composer, musicologist, and plucked string player. He holds degrees from the University of Durham (BA, MA) and the University of Oxford (DPhil). His research interests include the aesthetics and techniques of contemporary composition, ethnomusicology, medieval and renaissance music, English music of the 19th and 20th centuries, and the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Multi-instrumentalist, Andrew Arceci has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. As a performer-scholar, he's collaborated with several museums––Walters Art Museum (USA), National Gallery of Art (USA), Met Cloisters (USA), Art Gallery of Ontario (Canada), Rijksmuseum (The Netherlands), Museu Nacional da Música (Portugal), Chimei Museum (Taiwan), and others.