Staff profile

Hector is active as a performer of early chordophones of the lute family and as a musicologist. He has performed music ranging from the thirteenth-century Cantigas de Santa Maria to the Operas and Oratorios from the late baroque era. His research is focused on sixteenth-century performance practice issues as they relate to wider social and historical events. His most current work deals with music in English domestic circles, especially the Catholic families and their connections to the continent, and other research includes work on the Italian Frottola and the oral tradition that predated it. More broadly, Hector is interested in source studies, aspects of Renaissance music theory and analysis, and cross-fertilisation of musical practices within Europe. Hector alternates his research work with performances throughout Europe and the Americas.

• Renaissance performance practice
• Lute Sources
• Printed and manuscript sources in context
• Vocal music c. 1440-1700
• Early Opera

Chapter in book

• Sequera, H. (2015). Alternatives to the ‘English a cappella heresy’: Performance Practice of Sacred Spanish Polyphony in English Domestic Circles based on Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Sources. In T. Knighton, & E. Ros-Fábregas (Eds.), New perspectives on early music in Spain (447-462). Edition Reichenberger
• Sequera, H. (2012). Practice and Dissemination of Music in Catholic Networks as Suggested By the Music Collection of Edward Paston (1550-1630) and Other Sources. In D. J. Smith, & R. Taylor (Eds.), Networks of Music and Culture in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: A Collection of Essays in Celebration of Peter Philips’s 450th Anniversary (215-229). Ashgate Press

Conference Paper

• Sequera, H. (2018, December). Reconstructing the Music of William Byrd: A Practical and Computer-Based Appraisal. Presented at Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference (MedRen), Maynooth University (Ireland)
• Sequera, H. (2019, December). A Historical, Practical and Computer-Based Approach to Reconstructing Vocal and Instrumental Polyphony from Lute Tablature. Paper presented at Seminar Series, Royal Holloway University of London
• Sequera, H. (2018, December). Reconstructing the music of William Byrd: Practical and Computer-Based Evaluation. Presented at IMS (Tablature Study Group), Basel, Switzerland
• Sequera, H., & Valk, R. D. (2019, December). Machine-Learning Assisted Polyphonic Reconstruction. Presented at IMS (Tablature Study Group), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Universite de Tours
• Sequera, H. (2014, December). Lecture Recital: ‘From Pietrobono to Bossinensis: Reassessing Frottola Performance Practice Through F-Pn Rés. Vmd. MS 27'. Presented at MedRen Conference, Birmingham
• Sequera, H. (2013, December). Chaired session. Paper presented at Sources of Identity: Makers, Owners and Users of Music Sources Before 1600, Sheffield
• Sequera, H. (2013, December). Conference organisation. Paper presented at John Dowland 450th Anniversary Conference, Cambridge
• Sequera, H. (2012, December). Las Vihuelas o Laúdes en la Colección de Música del Gentilhombre Ingles “Eduardo Paston”: Contexto y Consideraciones Practicas. Presented at Festival de Musica Antigua de Guijon, Gijon
• Sequera, H. (2012, December). In the Privacy of Thy Chamber: Aspects of Musical Literacy in the English Renaissance. Presented at MedRen Conference, Nottingham
• Sequera, H. (2011, July). Alternatives to the ‘English a cappella heresy’: Performance Practice of Sacred Spanish Polyphony in Recusant Households Based on Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Sources. Presented at MedRen Conference, Barcelona
• Sequera, H. (2011, December). Practice and Dissemination of Music in the Recusant Network as Suggested by the Music Collection of Edward Paston (1550-1630). Presented at Musical, Cultural and Religious Networks Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland
• Sequera, H. (2011, December). Organised study day. Paper presented at Domestic Music in Recusant Circles in Elizabethan and Jacobean Times, Cambridge

Journal Article

• Sequera, H., & de Valk, R. (online). A Machine-Learning Assisted Approach to Reconstructing Polyphony from Lute Tablature using a Corpus of William Byrd's Consort Songs
• Sequera, H. (2019). Reconstructing William Byrd’s consort songs from the Paston lutebooks: a historically informed and computational approach to comparative analysis and musical idiom. Early Music, 47(4), 455-477. https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caz069
• Sequera, H. (2012). Victoria in England through the Lute: Reception and Performance practice of Tomas Luis de Victoria's Music in the Context of the Music Collection of Edward Paston (1550-1630). Revista de musicología, XXXV(1), 385-400

Performance

• Sequera, H., & al, E. (in press). Dragons! Tales and Music from the North East (REED-NE). A Performance with North East Folk Artists The Brothers Gillespie. [[Media unknown]]. Performed at Priors Hall, Durham Cathedral. 14 June 2019
• Sequera, H., Gaspers, G., & et al. (in press). Medieval and Early Modern Food and Music as Part of the Being Human Festival. [[Media unknown]]. Performed at Blackfriars Restaurant - Newcastle. 19 November 2017
• Sequera, H., & et al. (in press). Souls of the North (REED-NE). A Revival of North East Customs that Celebrate, Challenge, or Commemorate Death. [[Media unknown]]. Performed at Durham University Music Department. 12 September 2018
• Sequera, H. (2014). With the European Lute Orchestra at the Palazzo Archiginnasio. [[Media unknown]]. Performed at Bologna
• Sequera, H. (2014). Music director for AHRC project for the reconstruction of a Masque organised for Alessandro de Medici. [[Media unknown]]. Performed at Castle House, Sheffield
• Sequera, H. (2013). Organised and performed concert at the John Dowland 450th Anniversary Conference with The Rose Consort of Viols, Emma Kirkby, Paul O’Dette, Nigel North, Elizabeth Kenny, and Cambridge University Singers. [[Media unknown]]. Performed at Cambridge
• Sequera, H. (2012). Concert including repertoire from a panel on music in Catholic circles during Elizabethan and Jacobean times. Directing Ensemble Cantastorie. [[Media unknown]]. Performed at Nottingham
• Sequera, H. (2012). Music in English Domestic Circles. [CD, score, text portfolio]. Performed at Nottingham, England. 9 July 2012 - 9 July 2012
• Sequera, H. (2012). 'La Fleur des Chanson’. Concert with Jacob Heringman and members of the Dufay Collective, Fretwork, Phantasm, and the Brabant Ensemble as part of the Electronic Corpus of Lute Music (ECOLM) Project and the British Library. [[Media unknown]]. Performed at London

Presentation

• Sequera, H. (2016, December). “Canto Bello”: Performance Practice of 15th and 16th Century Italian Secular Music. Paper presented at Seminar Lecture Series, Sheffield University - Music Department