Biographical
Musical Director Michael Sargant B.A.(Hons.) P.G.Dip. A.C.S.E.T.
Michael is also a member of St. George's Canzona & The Georgian Band, appearing with many ensembles including Silva Lirica/ Tarleton's Jig, The New London Consort, City Waites & St. George's Chapel Choir, Windsor
Recorded for CRD & Unicorn-Cantana Records, The BBC & The Open University arranging sound-tracks. Theatre work includes Royal Shakespeare Company, British Actors Theatre Co. and Fools Paradise Theatre Productions and the New Globe Theatre. Musician with dance companies Baroque 'N' Roll and Masque Dance Theatre. Musician in film "Elizabeth" 1998

Past productions include:
Medieval
BBC Schools Radio; Wakefield Shepherds Play, 1983. Cogges Manor Farm Museum - Dance Programme, 1991/2. International Chaucer Congress 1990, University of Kent, Canterbury; "Comedy & Tragedy" with Fools Paradise. Various schools programmes with N.O.M. & St. Georges Canzona, 1982-1996...
Tudor Hampton Court Palace - living history projects for schools with the period dance group Baroque 'N' Roll and John Ballanger the Juggling Jester. Music and dance shows with N.O.M., St. George's Canzona, Masque Dance and Kingston University' Early Music Group, 1979 -1996
Elizabethan
ARMADA 400 Celebrations, Plymouth, 1988 Arrangements & recording Open University course cassettes of music in Shakespeare's Plays, 1983 The Tempest (Act 4) BBC Open University production, 1982 School performances with various ensembles, 1979 - 1996.
Rennaissance
'CIRCA 1615' with Fools Paradise; Aldeburgh 'Arts for Air Festival, 1994 A Jester's journey from the English Courts to Spain witnessing Master Peter's Puppets from Cervantes 'Don Quixote' and onto Carnivale in Venice to present the characters of the Commedia dell' Arte linked with appropriate period music.
Stuart
Educational projects with B.'N'R. at The Queen's House, Greenwich. Arrangements for BBC 'Landmarks' on Charles I & II, 1991 - 1993 - 1996... School shows as before (music & dance) Colchester Museum Video of the Siege of Colchester during the Civil War, 1996. Various presentations with the English Civil War Society and the Sealed Knot
Georgian
Arrangements and performances for Lancaster Georgian Legacy Festival, 1990 -1996... Concerts, The Beggars Opera, incidental music, dance classes and music for Revel and Rout. The Georgian Street Band, The Pantiles Tunbridge Wells, 1996.
Victorian & Edwardian
Resident Band at the Dickens Festival, Rochester, Kent, 1982 -1996... Edwardian M.D. for B. 'N' R. in a Twelfth Night Show, Museum of London, 1993. BBC: 'The Day After the Fair', a short story by Thomas Hardy, 1986.


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