Background
Jez Smith -
Skills and Experience
Jez Smith -
Skills and Experience
Jez Smith has been a musician for 40 years. He originally trained as a guitarist playing contemporary music. His interest in playing period music started around 20 years ago. He plays a range of instruments including lute, lute guitar, gittern, vihuela, hurdy gurdies, nyckelharpa and a variety of medieval and Renaissance style bagpipes. The main repertoire includes medieval, Tudor and 17th century music.
Jez is a qualified museum professional (Museum Masters Degree) with a background in archaeology (Degree) and Sociology (BA Hons Degree). He has worked in the museum sector in the roles of education, interpretation and accessibility. Playing In Time is his own area of work, which covers historical music and the related research. Ancient Sacred Sounds is his area of work focusing on therapeutic sound.
His experience covers working with school groups, running adult education workshops, carrying out historical music demonstrations and lectures on historical music, archaeoacoustics and modern sound therapy.
Jez is also a qualified sound therapist with diplomas from both the British Academy of Sound Therapy (BAST) and the College of Sound Healing (COSH), along with many years of experience of researching and working with sound.
If you would like to find out more or make a booking please feel free to contact Jez directly using the contact form.
