• Holly Scarborough © Amanda Joy Photography

Medieval and Renaissance

Native Californian Holly Scarborough is a performer of medieval and Renaissance transverse flutes, pipe and tabor, and percussion; she has been invited to stages in Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Germany, France, England, Finland, Kosovo, and the United States. She directs Zweigulden, co-directs Ensemble Parlamento, and is Managing Director of ReRenaissance, which presents music before 1600 in monthly concerts and in a biannual festival in Basel, Switzerland. Her scholarly research focuses on German secular music and the evolving transverse flute around 1500. She loves interpreting parchment manuscripts, dreaming up concepts and collaborations, and sharing sounds and stories with others.

Performance and Research

Beaute Parfaite – Antonello de Caserta
(late 14th/early 15th C),
Reina Codex
Ensemble Parlamento
Kloster Königsfelden, Windisch, Switzerland
Video and audio by Nicola Paoli, October 2022

Ich sachz eyns mols – anonymous
(ca. 1480),
Glogauer Liederbuch
Ensemble Parlamento
Crypt of the Church of St. Peter and Paul, Bern
Video and audio by Nicola Paoli, June 2023