Leah Stuttard comes from an industrial town in a particularly wet part of the North West of England. She has played the medieval harp for over 25 years and sung for a lot longer. After studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland, she has worked with many major names including Jordi Savall and Ensemble Unicorn. She is incredibly grateful that her career has taken her around the world, from Mexico to Russia. She first started working with the Italian ensemble Micrologus in 2002 and continues to add a certain Anglo-Saxon je-ne-sais-quoi to their performances. As a soloist, she performs English medieval music and has recorded two CDs; with Vivien Ellis (Sinfonye, Dufay Collective) she plays English ballads and sings Gregorian chant; with Danish/Swedish singer Agnethe Christensen (Sequentia) she explores more Northern repertoires like Scandinavian folk hymns; and with John Potter she has performed sacred songs in the Northern French trouvère tradition. In 2023 she toured her solo programme about the English medieval writer and visionary Margery Kempe, visiting many beautiful churches in East Anglia. This was also the year she handed in her doctoral thesis entitled “A History of Improvisation in the Medieval Music Revival” becoming the first Doctor in her family!