 Kerry McCarthy, who has written the program notes for the William Byrd Festival since its inception, was born and raised in Portland. She discovered the delights of early music while in high school and joined Cantores in Ecclesia in 1994. She received her B.A. from Reed College in 1997 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2003. She is now Assistant Professor of Musicology at Duke University. Her book on Byrd’s Gradualia was published by Routledge in 2007.
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