He works at the University of Cambridge, where he is the director of music at Sidney Sussex College and is an affiliated lecturer, teaching historical and practical topics from the medieval and Renaissance periods.
[2] He has been associated with a number of award-winning projects (including two Gramophone Awards and three runners up; Diapason d'Or; Deutsche Schallplatten; and a Grammy nomination).
[5] With the music group Fretwork and the Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Alamire won "Editor's Choice" and "CD of the Month" in Gramophone for February 2008.
The last project in the series to date built on Skinner's identification of Henry VIII's last queen Catherine Parr as author of an alternative text for one of Thomas Tallis's major motets.
[7] His 2012 release of the works of the Renaissance composer Thomas Weelkes with the Choir of Sidney Sussex College was nominated for a Gramophone Award as well, with critics praising the choir's "exemplary ensemble and intonation, beauty of tone, clarity of diction, and interpretive expressiveness".