Peter Kenneth HolmanMBE (born 19 October 1946, in
London) is an English conductor and
musicologist best known for reviving the music of
Purcell and his English contemporaries.[1] Holman, with the ensemble
The Parley of Instruments made many of the extensive series of recordings of lesser-known English baroque music on
Hyperion Records in that label's English Orpheus series from 1980 to 2010. The ensemble was co-founded in 1979 by Holman and the violinist
Roy Goodman. Holman and the ensemble now record on the
Chandos Classics label.