Description: In 2022 Sirinu won an award from the Continuo Early Music Foundation to tour Britain in a programme of European medieval music. In 2023 they were awarded RVW Foundation funding commissions.
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Sirinu has made over thirty recordings and toured in Europe, Africa and South America. It is one of the most successful and innovative groups on the early music scene. Sirinu takes its name and its musical inspiration from the treacherous Andean water spirits whose divine music both inspires and ensnares mortals. In 2022 they were awarded Continuo Foundation Tour Funding, and performance and commission funding from the RVW Foundation to perform programmes of folk, contemporary and early music from compli
In 2022 Sirinu won an award from the Continuo Early Music Foundation to tour Britain in a varied programme of the most beautiful and interesting European medieval music. In 2023 they were awarded RVW Foundation funding to commission new works for voices and medieval instruments and their new CD `The Man Hurdy-gurdy and me’ – Music for early and unusual instruments by Howard Skempton was released on the Mètier Music label in 2021.
Early music ensemble Sirinu is one of the most successful and innovative groups on the early music scene. Sirinu has made over thirty recordings of music from the Renaissance and from medieval periods; they have also commissioned, performed and recorded new music for early instruments and have toured Europe, Africa and South America. They take their name from the treacherous Andean water spirits whose divine music both inspires and ensnares mortals.