Tadhg Sudlow
Violin - Viola - Fiddle
As a versatile musician, Tadhg has experience as a historical violinist and violist across Europe and Australia. He regularly performs with the Irish Baroque Orchestra and the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, also leading and performing with freelance ensembles at home in the Netherlands. Alongside an early music career, Tadhg is a traditional Irish music player, forming trad band The Hár in Australia as a fiddle and banjo player, most recently touring in Edinburgh and Dublin. This knowledge of the oral traditions in Irish music combined with a dedication to performance research has resulted in the concerts Trad meets Baroque with the ensemble an banna aosta
About
Tadhg Sudlow is an internationally performing historically informed violinist and violist. Irish and Australian, they grew up in Perth, Western Australia, studying with Shaun Lee-Chen (2019). He spent six months travelling, studying, and performing in the UK and Ireland before completing a Masters in Early Music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Antoinette Lohmann and Shunske Sato (2025).Tadhg has focused on developing their own research-led practice, prioritising exploration of the sources and investigating ways to implement these. He tries to approach everything with an open mind, so it can be filled with interesting questions!
'Patrick's Day' from the manuscripts of Pádraig O Niall (National Library of Ireland) and 'The Parting of Friends' traditional air in June 2025. Tadhg Sudlow (fiddle) and Xander Baker (cello)
Trad meets Baroque is a concert concept and research topic. Starting as a personal exploration of the many similarities that I noticed between my baroque practice and traditional Irish music, it evolved into a research project completed at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam titled Trad meets Baroque concerts: Interpreting reciprocal influences from oral and written musical traditions in eighteenth century Irish performance practice, the results of which will be shared imminently.Oral and written traditions in Ireland are not simply oppositional forces, but complementary modes of musical thought and practice that have co-existed for centuries. Rather than framing the relationship between Irish traditional and Baroque music as one of cultural appropriation or dominance, Trad meets Baroque explores a more nuanced model of reciprocal influence and creative adaptation, combining the sources to form a cohesive performance style.Musicians:
Tadhg Sudlow (fiddle/viola)
Xander Baker (cello/basso)
Ellen Bolger (harpsichord)
Brigid Cruise by Turlough O Carolan in Kaufbeuren, Germany August 2025. Tadhg Sudlow (fiddle), Xander Baker (cello)
Summary of 'Trad meets Baroque' performed in Dublin Castle's Chapel Royal in 2024. Tadhg Sudlow (fiddle), Xander Baker (cello), Ellen Bolger (harpsichord), Jet Kye Chong (Bodhrán)
videos
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante II. Meng Han Wu (violin), Tadhg Sudlow (viola).
Daphne - dividions from Jacob van Eyck and Tadhg. Sofia Pedro (soprano), Tadhg Sudlow (violin), Xander Baker, Marta Jiménez, and Adriana Mendez Fernandez (viola da gamba)
Duke of Norfolk - divisions from John Playford, arr. Tadhg Sudlow (fiddle), Xander Baker, Adriana Mendez Fernandez (viola da gamba)