Esha Neogy
Viola da Gamba, Viols
Esha Neogy (first syllable pronounced like the name of the letter A) is an event organiser, viola da gamba player and teacher of beginners, and editor. In addition to her medieval and Renaissance group Ensemble Tramontana with themes of journeying and crossing borders, the groups and individuals she has performed with include Musica Antica Rotherhithe, The Swan Consort, Musicke in the Ayre, Lutesinger (Helen Atkinson), Chelys Consort of Viols, Echoing Air, the Hastings Philharmonic, the Hawaii-based group Europa Early Music Consort, and various other ensembles and theatre groups. She has served as a deputy teacher of the adult viol class at Morley College in London; led numerous Artists-in-the-Schools programmes in Hawaii on early music; assisted with beginners’ classes for the Viola da Gamba Society (Great Britain) and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance; and organised a voices and viols course in Wales. The events Esha has directed or organised include the international Pan-Pacific Gamba Gathering, which was held in Honolulu in 2007 on the theme of the viol as a "world" instrument and included sessions on crossover and new music as well as the viol’s core history and repertoire. Esha did postgraduate studies in early music at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, in which she specialized in the viola da gamba under the tutelage of Alison Crum.
