Players & Singers

Our biography and profiles of our principal players & singers.

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Jane Rogers
Viola

Jane is one of the UK’s leading exponents in baroque and classical viola. 

In addition to La Nuova Musica Jane is also principal viola with The Academy of Ancient Music and Brecon Baroque. She also plays frequently with Arcangelo, Classical Opera, Dunedin Consort, Florilegium and La Serenissima. She was co-principal viola in The English Concert for ten years and played principal viola with The English Baroque Soloists, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and The King’s Consort. A keen chamber musician, Jane was also a member of The Amsterdam String Quartet, Terzetto and The Eroica String Quartet.

Jane’s recording career has been prolific and she has featured on over 200 CD recordings as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player.

Jane enjoys and devotes a great deal of time to teaching and coaching chamber music. She holds a post of professor of historical viola and viola d’amore at the Royal Academy of Music and The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Jane has taught and given masterclasses at prestigious music colleges and conservatoires around the world.

In 2016 Jane qualified as a Bach Flower Remedies practitioner and gives workshops and sessions on performance anxiety.