Richard Bootby
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Richard Boothby has been playing the viol ever since David Fallows handed him a tenor viol in
1977. He was trying to help him with a thesis entitled ‘Wagner’s Ring and its tonality’ at
Manchester University. After further study with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Salzburg, he helped to
found The Purcell Quartet in 1984 and Fretwork in 1985.
With Fretwork, he has endeavoured to enrich the viol-consort repertory with new music from
today’s finest composers, from Elvis Costello to George Benjamin, from Alexander Goehr to
Nico Muhly.
With the Purcell Quartet, he recorded nearly 50 albums for Hyperion and Chandos; and with
Fretwork over 70 albums for Virgin Classics, Harmonia Mundi USA and most recently,
Signum Classics.
