Grace Newcombe is the founder and director of the ensemble RUMORUM and performs separately with renowned medieval-Renaissance ensembles including Ensemble Leones, ensemble Peregrina, Le Miroir de Musique, and Ensemble gilles Binchois.

She studied musicology at the University of Oxford, where she was also organ scholar at Hertford College. With the support of a Leverhulme Trust scholarship, she completed a Masters in medieval-Renaissance singing at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with professors Kathleen Dineen and Dominique Vellard, where she also learned historical harp and keyboard. Alongside her performance career, grace is in the final stages of her PhD research on medieval British song.

For more information, visit www.gracenewcombe.com.