Tadhg Sudlow
Violin - Viola - Fiddle
About
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 AostaIrish 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!
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)