Sharon Lindo

Leader, concertino first violin

Sharon Lindo, the Corelli Orchestra's regular leader, was educated in London at the Royal College of Music and the Gulidhall School of Music and Drama where she studied violin and recorder and eventually specialised in early bowed stringed and wind instruments. She now performs and tours internationally with ensembles and orchestras including The Sixteen, Chiaroscuro, King's Consort and Collegium Musicum 90 with whom she has made several recordings. She has also broadcast for national television and radio at home and abroad.

Sharon has a love of folk and early dance music and works closely with several early dance groups; she plays and records with the Broadside Band (popular seventeenth century music) and the Bashava Band (Jewish and Gypsy repertoire) and her work in theatre includes the National Theatre and the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London and Tokyo.