Richard Lindsay was a junior student at Trinity College London in recorder and composition and is a graduate of Exeter University where he was a choral scholar and a member of the prestigious Cantores under David Allinson. Currently he teaches recorder and singing at Lincoln Minster School, Bishop Grosseteste College and privately, and also tutors on music courses. He is conductor of the Lincoln Orpheus Male Voice Choir and Musical Director of the Lincolnshire Society of Recorder Players. He is a founder member of the early music group Cantiones Renovatae and has appeared as a soloist at many concerts and early music festivals.

Kathleen Berg is a graduate of Reading and Cambridge Universities. She has been in early music performing all her life, mainly as a keyboard player, singer and conductor. She is also administrator for the group Cantiones Renovatae. Outside early music she is a player and workshop leader with the Javanese and Malay gamelans.

Visiting Director

We are delighted that Jamie Savan is able to visit to tutor the Band three times a Year.

A former principal trumpeter of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, Jamie Savan began playing the cornett in 1996 while an undergraduate in Music at St Anne's College, Oxford. He subsequently studied with Jeremy West at the Royal College of Music in London, funded by a Leverhulme studentship; and with Bruce Dickey at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, with the aid of scholarships from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Musicians' Benevolent Fund. Jamie has also recently completed a doctorate in Performance Practice at the University of Birmingham.

Jamie has been a busy freelance musician since 1997 and, in addition to directing The Gonzaga Band, he performs regularly with many of Europe's leading period instrument ensembles, including His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts, Concerto Palatino, the Gabrieli Consort and Players, and The King's Consort. He is principal cornettist with Charivari Agréable Simfonie and is also a member of the ensemble Il Vero Modo, which reached the finals of the York International Early Music Network Young Artists Competition in 2003.

Jamie teaches cornett at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and at the University of Birmingham, where he also lectures in Baroque Performance Practice.