About us
Tamsin Lewis
Tamsin studied violin at the Florence Conservatoire before reading Classics and Italian at Oxford. She has written, arranged, directed and played music for many theatre productions - most recently: Entertaining Morocco (Theatro Technis); Romeo & Juliet (Daylight Players' Swedish Tour); The Real Hans Sachs (Linbury Studio, The Royal Opera House); The Crystal Den (New End Theatre); Hero and Leander, The Jew of Malta and The Roaring Girl (Rose Theatre Site). Music for Television & Radio includes BBC Restoration (BBC2), Vic Reeves' Rogues (Discovery Channel); Howard Goodall' How Music Works (Channel 4) In Tune & The Early Music Show (Radio 3); King Lear and Boxing Day (Radio 4). Tamsin performs regularly on violin, lute, viols and harp and directs the early music consort Passamezzo. She also works as a researcher for the University of Toronto's Records of Early English Drama Project.
As a member of the Lions part, Tamsin provides music and costume for many of their productions, including their Seasonal Festivals; The Arraygnment of Paris (Hampton Court Palace); Yours Ever, Jane, Lilies on the Land (Southwark Playhouse & National Tour); Death of an Actress (Southwark Playhouse); Dr Faustus (Rose Theatre Site); Second Shepherd's Pageant (V&A); The Old Wives Tale and Old Summer's Last Will and Testament (Shakespeare's Globe). She performs in the Festivals as a violin-playing bear.
