Players & Singers

Judith Evans
Double Bass

Judith has appeared with all the UK’s major period-instrument ensembles, touring the world as principal bass, with La Nuova Musica as well as Academy of Ancient Music, Gabrieli Players, Arcangelo and The King’s Consort. 

Having studied both bass and violin at the Royal College of Music, her appointment to the English Baroque Soloists by Sir John Eliot Gardiner prompted Judith’s move into early music.

She has recorded extensively, including discs of JS Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos with the Academy of Ancient Music and the Hanover Band, and Haydn’s Symphonies Nos.6, 7 and 8 which include well-known solos for the double bass.

She has appeared as a soloist in the Barbican with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Academy of Ancient Music performing Mozart’s concert aria “Per questa bella mano”, with its virtuosic double bass obbligato, as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival in 2006. In May 2014 Judith again appeared as soloist in the same aria, this time in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, with Collegium Novum.

Judith recently co-founded Instruments of Time and Truth, a period-instrument orchestra based in Oxford. She read English at Oxford as a mature student whilst maintaining her freelance career and went on to become an associate lecturer with the Open University.