Sarah Cunningham

Sarah Cunningham is among the world's best-known players of the viola da gamba, with extensive activities as a performer and educator in Europe and in her native U.S. She has a large recording catalog dating back to the early 1980s. Cunningham was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, on December 2, 1951. She began her studies of viols in Boston in 1969, when the instruments were still quite rare in the U.S. She enrolled at Harvard that year and attended the Longy School of Music at Harvard from 1970 to 1972, studying viola da gamba with Gian Lyman Silbiger, and went on for further ...