Sound Worlds of Ancient Greece

Dr Mary Ann Tedstone Glover is the founder and lead of Ancient Sound Lab. A composer, musicologist and researcher, she combines historical evidence, reconstructed instruments, performance and studio practice to investigate and explore the sound worlds of ancient Greece and Rome.

Mary Ann studied Early Music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama before completing an MMus and a practice-based PhD at Bath Spa University. Her doctoral research, Writing Music for an Ancient Roman Ensemble: Artistic Research in the Recording Studio, explored composition and recording as forms of archaeomusicological enquiry. She is now a Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University.

Her album The Music of Ancient Rome received international press and broadcast coverage and was longlisted for a Grammy in 2024. Her music has also appeared in film and television, including the Oscar-nominated animated short Our Uniform. In 2026, she received Arts Council England funding to lead Ancient Sound Lab’s current project, Sound Worlds of Ancient Greece.

Professor Armand D’Angour is Professor of Classical Languages and Literature and Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, University of Oxford. A classical scholar and musician, his research includes ancient Greek music, metre, poetry and performance.

His work on reconstructing the sounds of ancient Greek music has brought surviving musical notation and ancient musical practice to a wide public audience. For Sound Worlds of Ancient Greece, Armand contributes as a researcher, co-writer and lyricist, developing Ancient Greek texts and helping to connect the project’s new music with historical language, metre and musical evidence.

Thanasis Kleopas is a Greek musician, singer and composer whose work centres on the ancient Greek lyre. He has performed internationally across Europe and Asia, combining the lyre with traditional Greek music and his own compositions. His work reflects both his Greek musical roots and a wider interest in world-music traditions.

For Sound Worlds of Ancient Greece, Thanasis performs lyre and vocals, working with Mary Ann Tedstone Glover on the vocal and instrumental realisation of the project’s reconstructed ancient Greek sound worlds. His experience as both a singer and lyre player is particularly important in bringing together text, melody and performance in the finished recordings.

Nuno Silva is a Portuguese multi-instrumentalist specialising in plucked-string instruments from Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and historical traditions. His work draws on instruments including oud, kanun, santur and other early stringed instruments, combining practical musicianship with a strong interest in historical sound and performance practice.

For Sound Worlds of Ancient Greece, Nuno performs on pandoura, working with Mary Ann Tedstone Glover to explore the instrument’s timbre, technique and musical possibilities within newly reconstructed ancient Greek sound worlds. His playing contributes an important practical dimension to the project, helping shape the instrumental character of the recordings through experimentation, interpretation and performance.

R.W. Enoch is a Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer whose work includes The Urban Renewal Project, a sixteen-piece ensemble combining hip-hop with jazz, and the revival of the ancient Greek and Roman aulos.

As founder and artistic director of The Urban Renewal Project, Enoch has led international tours and released four albums, including Love Glory Duty Death in 2025. The ensemble has performed at the Jakarta Java Jazz Festival and SXSW and contributed music to film and television projects including Hocus Pocus 2 and The Circle.

As an aulete and scholar, Enoch composed and performed the music for Adelphae, which premiered at the THALIA Festival in Braga, Portugal, in 2026. His article Revisiting the Thetic Approach to Ancient Greek Harmonics and Melody was published in Greek and Roman Musical Studies.

Michael Tedstone is an established UK-based composer and music producer with more than 15 years’ experience writing for television, film and international media. He has created over 20 albums for Audio Network and more than 170 tracks for Felt Music.

Combining traditional instruments and live musicians with contemporary electronic and orchestral production, his commercial work includes projects for Hyundai, Porsche, Nokia and Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture. His music has featured in programmes including James May: Our Man in India, Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, Joanna Lumley’s Spice Trail Adventure, Queer Eye and Panorama.

For Sound Worlds of Ancient Greece, Michael works with Mary Ann Tedstone Glover on pre-production, helping to develop and refine the tracks before recording. He also works alongside Mary Ann and Trevor Gibson in the studio, helping to shape the final recordings and bring Mary Ann’s musical vision to life.

Trevor Gibson is a producer, recording engineer and Chief Engineer at Circle Recording Studios in Birmingham. Working professionally since 1982, he has extensive experience recording and mixing music and audio for artists, film, television and games.

Trevor previously produced and engineered Mary Ann Tedstone Glover’s The Music of Ancient Rome. For Sound Worlds of Ancient Greece, he returns as producer and recording engineer, bringing his long studio experience to the recording and mixing of the project’s reconstructed ancient sound world.