David Hatcher

Cello / Viola da gamba

David Hatcher studied viola da gamba with Charles Medlam and Recorder with Philip Thorby at Trinity College of Music, London. After an initial period based in England during which time he performed with his own ensemble Harmonie Universelle and as a guest with The New London Consort and Fretwork he moved to Japan in 1987 where he was to remain for the next nine years. His recordings include a series of CDs with Evelyn Tubb, Chelys, Sprezzatura, and the Japanese ensembles Ensemble Ecclesia and the Bach Collegium of Japan. He has also appeared on NHK (Japanese national television) in a highly successful dramatised historical documentary as an eighteenth century Dutch musician, and his recordings with Anthony Rooley’s Consort of Musicke, Evelyn Tubb and Bach Collegium of Japan are regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

David now lives in Leominster on the Welsh Marches, and in addition to his performances in the UK he regularly returns to Japan to play and record. He is in great demand as an accompanist, and has performed with singers Emma Kirkby, Evelyn Tubb, Catherine Bott and Ian Partridge, and violinist Catherine Mackintosh.