Artist Info: Thomas Ashwell

Thomas Ashwell or Ashewell (c. 1478 – after 1513 (possibly 1527?)) was an English composer of the Renaissance.
He was a skilled composer of polyphony, and may have been the teacher of John Taverner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Ashwell

His admission to St. George's Chapel as a chorister in 1491 suggests a birthdate of approximately 1478, but nothing else is known about his early life.
He stayed at St. George's until 1493, and account records at Tattershall College in Lincolnshire list him as a singer there in 1502 and 1503. [read more...]