From Jenny Hill …

Let’s make this one a full house!

Lutenist Sara Salloum invites you to step back in time with her and experience the captivating scenes of a young woman practicing and performing her lute in early seventeenth-century England. With meticulously reconstructed period instruments, and dressed in specialist tailor-made Renaissance period clothing, Sara will perform music from the female-produced lute books which survive from England’s golden age of lute music (c.1590-1630).

Sara Salloum is a lute player and prizewinning music scholar who re-enacts the performances of female musicians from sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe. She has performed in diverse settings including historic houses and castles, cathedrals, galleries and museums, opera houses and concert halls, cafés and bars. Her doctorate brought her skills as a performing musician together with scholarship, and she developed fresh and original methods for conducting historical and musical research. Sara investigated the rich culture of women’s lute playing in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, including how women’s clothing influenced performance and how musical accomplishment shaped young women’s lives. Sara’s completed PhD thesis was recently commended by the Royal Musical Association when she was awarded the RMA Practice Research Prize 2025.

The concert at St John’s, Brunswick St, Whitby is on Friday 14th August, 11.45am.
Admission is free, with retiring collection.