THERESA CAUDLE comes from a musical family with a keen interest in renaissance and baroque music. She started to learn the violin at the age of seven and the cornett at thirteen, becoming one of the foremost performers on the latter whilst still a teenager. At the Guildhall School of Music she received a scholarship to study the baroque violin, and was the first person to receive a diploma on that instrument. Whilst pursuing her studies on the violin, she became director of The London Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, and with this group travelled all over Europe as well as making many recordings, including Monteverdi's opera "L’Orfeo" and Matthew Locke's "Music for His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts". As a string player she has been a member of The English Concert, The English Baroque Soloists and The Brandenburg Consort, and was principal second violin in The Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra for nine years. One of Theresa’s main commitments, lasting twenty-five years, was to The Parley of Instruments, of which she was a founder member, and with which she made over fifty recordings of baroque chamber and orchestral music for the Hyperion label.

Although Theresa is a regular member of several different ensembles, such as The Symphony of Harmony and Invention (Harry Christophers’ orchestra) and The London Handel Orchestra, her activities are increasingly in connection with directing her own ensemble, Canzona, both in chamber music concerts and in collaborations with choirs. She is also in demand as a leader with other groups in this country such as Frideswide, The Woodmansterne Collection and London Pro Arte Baroque, and abroad, where she has acted as Concert Master at Drottningholm Court Theatre and with the Polish group, L’arte dei Suonatore.

Theresa enjoys teaching at all levels and has a busy schedule both within schools and privately. She has also given coaching sessions in baroque style at The Royal Academy of Music, Birmingham and Leeds Universities and has acted as a specialist examiner for final recitals both at The Royal Academy and Royal College of Music.She regularly directs and teaches on baroque courses at Benslow, Jackdaws and the Oxford Baroque Week and also in Croatia, where she formed a fruitful collaboration with the leader of the Croatian Baroque Ensemble. As a result, Theresa has revisited Croatia to direct programmes with this ensemble and to coach students at the Academy in Zagreb in baroque performance practice.