British Harpsichord Society Events
 | TUESDAY 14TH FEBRUARY at 6.30 P.M. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY CONCERT Robert Woolley Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB 'Made on purpose for the Organ or Harpsichord' Music by Handel, Roseingrave, Nares, Walond, Goodwin and Greene Robert Woolley is well known as a harpsichord, organ and clavichord soloist, chamber musician and orchestral player: his solo recordings include discs of harpsichord, organ and fortepiano works by Tallis, Gibbons, Byrd, Frescobaldi, Sweelinck, Purcell, Weckmann, Bohm, Handel, Bach, Scarlatti and Seixas for EMI, Virgin, Archiv, Hyperion, and Chandos, including discs of the Partitas by J.S.Bach for Chandos. He has given performances in the UK, USA, South America, Japan, Austria, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, and was artist-in-residence at Washington University, St.Louis. He regularly broadcasts for the BBC, and programmes have included many recordings on historic organs, harpsichords and fortepianos. Robert Woolley played The Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 by JS Bach on a new copy of a clavichord of Bach’s time for the British Clavichord Society in Oxford, and next month will give a organ recital in the London Handel Festival at St George’s Church Hanover Square. He recorded a disc of 18th century English music on the newly restored 1766 Thomas Parker organ at Leatherhead, and will record the next disc in his series of Sweelinck’s complete keyboard works on the 1633 Scherer organ at St Stefan’s Kirche, Tangermunde. He recently played at the Christening at Gloucester Cathedral of Sasha Blow, the newest descendant of 17th century composer John Blow, organist of Westminster Abbey and HM Chapel Royal, and teacher of Henry Purcell. Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB Tickets: £9 and £5 Students. Information: http://www.handelhouse.org Tel: 0207 399 1953 You are invited to join us for refreshments at a local hostelry after the recital. Everyone is most welcome! |
| SATURDAY 10TH. MARCH at 2.00 pm. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY WEEKEND EVENT Froberger with Pawel Siwczak. Other players TBA. |
| TUESDAY 13TH. MARCH at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Terence Charlston ‘A Choice Collection’: English clavichord and harpsichord music in the 17th century Blow, Byrd, Bryne, Draghi, Purcell |
 | TUESDAY 10TH. APRIL at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Tom Foster ‘Delight & Desire'. Music by Randall, Farnaby, Tisdall, Tomkins and Gibbons. Tom holds a first-class honours degree in Music from the University of Oxford (St. Catherine's College) and a Distinction in Performance from the Royal Academy of Music. In recent years he has been specialising in harpsichord playing under the guidance of world-renowned director and harpsichordist, Trevor Pinnock. Tom gave his London debut at the Handel House in November 2007, and has played as concerto soloist in performances of Bach's Fifth Brandenburg Concerto and Sixth Harpsichord concerto in F major, the latter with the European Brandenburg Ensemble in 2006. In July 2010 he was one of four harpsichordists to take part in the first English Concert Directing Master Class, directed by Harry Bicket and Laurence Cummings, and in 2011, toured with the European Union Baroque Orchestra giving concerts directed by Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Enrico Onofri and Alexis Kossenko. Tom holds a Junior Fellowship at the Royal Northern College of Music. Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB Tickets: £9 and £5 Students. Information: http://www.handelhouse.org Tel: 0207 399 1953 You are invited to join us for refreshments at a local hostelry after the recital. Everyone is most welcome! |
| Recent Concerts |
 | TUESDAY 13TH DECEMBER at 6.30 P.M. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY CONCERT Kasia Tomczak-Feltrin |
 | SATURDAY 26TH NOVEMBER 3-5pm The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ Illustrated lectures Graham Sadler: Domenico Scarlatti visits Paris in 1724 and 1725: reflections on a probable meeting with Rameau Jane Clark: Domenico Scarlatti: an Italian in Spain. In association with the British Harpsichord Society. Included with admission to the museum (£7.50/£5 concessions/ children free) The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ In association with the British Harpsichord Society Tel: 0207 841 3606 www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk |
 | TUESDAY 15TH NOVEMBER at 6.30 P.M. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY CONCERT Pamela Nash PLEASE NOTE THAT PAMELA NASH IS INDISPOSED. PLEASE CONTACT THE HANDEL HOUSE MUSEUM FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON 0207 399 1953 Gaspard le Roux - Suite in D major Rameau - Pieces de clavecin in A minor Byrd - All in a Garden Grine Tenth Pavan and Galliard, Mr W. Peter Bach - Prelude, Allemande and Courante: transcriptions from the solo violin partitas Scarlatti - Sonatas K. 441 and K. 27 Pamela Nash studied at Chetham's School of Music, the Schola Cantorum in Paris, Trinity College of Music and the University of Michigan where she gained a Master of Music in Early Keyboard Instruments. The recipient of several awards and scholarships, including the Harkness Fellowship, she was one of the first harpsichordists to use the classical harpsichord for contemporary music, resulting in commissioned works from composers such as Graham Fitkin and Gary Carpenter. Her particular interest lies in works for two harpsichords, many of which she has premiered with duo partner Jane Chapman at major British festivals such as Brighton and the Multiplier Series at Kings Place. She has twice directed Manchester's Harpsichordfest , dedicated to promoting new music by British composers. She has published several articles on the contemporary harpsichord and has edited the complete solo harpsichord works of Stephen Dodgson. Reviews include “Pamela Nash renders it with exquisite poise” (NMC recording, Gramophone) and “Played with exquisite sensitivity” (the Guardian). Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB Tickets: £9 and £5 Students. Information: http://www.handelhouse.org Tel: 0207 399 1953 You are invited to join us for refreshments at a local hostelry after the recital. Everyone is most welcome! |
 | SATURDAY 22ND OCTOBER 3-5 PM BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY CONCERT Jane Clark, with Derek Adlam and Tom Foster, presents an afternoon of François Couperin’s Pièces de Clavecin by popular request, the Couperin events at the Handel House having always been oversubscribed. Jane is the author, with Derek Connon, of 'The mirror of human life': Reflections on Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin. ‘In just a few hundred pages the authors create a compelling portrait of Couperin and his world, providing an invaluable service, not only to harpsichordists (and all les amis de Couperin) but to everyone interested in the music, art and theater of the period.’ Mark Kroll, writing in Early Music America, Summer 2011. Included with admission to the museum (£7.50/£5 concessions/ children free) The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ In association with the British Harpsichord Society Tel: 0207 841 3606 www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk |
 | TUESDAY 11TH OCTOBER 2011 at 6.30 P.M. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Néstor Bayona Scarlatti Sonata en fa menor K. 481 Scarlatti Sonata en fa major K. 525 Bach Goldberg variations The 25 years old Catalan pianist and harpsichordist studied at the Royal Northern College of Music with Helen Krizos and Sharon Gould, where he was awarded with the highest prize given by the college, the Gold Medal. Néstor made his debut at the prestigious concert hall in Barcelona Palau de la Música Catalana in 2007, at the Wigmore Hall in May 2009, the Bridgewater Hall in October 2009 and the Purcell Room in January 2011. He has performed at the Bermuda Piano Festival 2008 and the Lichfield Festival 2099. During the last two seasons, he has performed the three last piano concertos by Beethoven with the Sheffield Chamber Orchestra, the Petersfield Orchestra and Julià Carbonell Orchestra. Néstor is a winner of the Philip & Dorothy Green Young Concert Artist Award and an artist of the Park Lane Group. He is currently studying with Nelson Goerner in the Haute École de Musique de Genève. |
 | SATURDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER 3-5PM BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY OPEN WORKSHOP Experienced teacher and performer of early keyboards Penelope Cave will give an open workshop on Handel's harpsichord music with a group of adult students. Auditors are welcome to attend, and bring scores if they wish. The BHS is very fortunate in this new association with the Foundling Museum. Attenders of the two Saturday events will be able to see this very special museum which tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, London's first home for abandoned children. Founded by the philanthropist Thomas Coram and supported by William Hogarth and Handel, its remarkable collection of art, period interiors and social history is now housed in a restored and refurbished building. It also has a very good café! Included with admission to the museum (£7.50/£5 concessions/ children free) The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ In association with the British Harpsichord Society Tel: 0207 841 3606 www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk |
 | TUESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER AT 6.30 P.M. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Pawel Siwczak Pawel Siwczak has performed actively as a soloist as well as with chamber ensembles and orchestras such as Gabrieli Consort & Players and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He is the winner of the 8th Broadwood Harpsichord Competition (2007) and the Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize (2006, founded by Musica Britannica Trust for the performance of early English music). Having graduated from the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, he subsequently received a Master of Music degree (with distinction) from the Royal Academy of Music in London where he is currently a teacher. |
 | TUESDAY 9TH. AUGUST at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Rebecca Maurer ‘En sol - Musique pour le Roi Soleil’ F. and L. Couperin, Lully/D'Anglebert, J.N.P.Royer Fortepianist and Harpsichordist Rebecca Maurer was born in Nuremberg, Germany and studied at the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam and Cornell University. Her teachers have included Bob van Asperen, Malcolm Bilson and Robert Levin, as well as musicologist Ulrich Konrad. Over the last decade, Rebecca has enjoyed a successful international career as a soloist and collaborative artist in USA, UK and Europe. She has a reputation as one of the outstanding Mozart interpreters of her generation, and is a welcome guest at international festivals. As an internationally known specialist in historical keyboard instruments and performance practice, she has in recent years been increasingly in demand as a juror in international competitions and frequently conducts masterclasses for fortepiano and harpsichord at various leading music conservatories in Europe including Musikhochschule Nürnberg (2007), Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien (2009). From 2001-2003 she was the visiting harpsichord professor at State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. Rebecca Maurer has made numerous recordings, primarily on original historical instruments, for major European radio stations including Deutschlandradio, Südwestrundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, BBC and Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg. Her fortepiano debut CD from 2006 entitled “Mozart und Beethoven auf der Reise nach Berlin”, and her harpsichord recording of Antonio Valente’s “Intavolatura de cimbalo” (2009) have both received excellent reviews internationally. Rebecca has also provided fortepiano continuo for Sir Roger Norrington’s 2009 recording of Haydn’s London Symphonies with the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR. Rebecca Maurer is also widely-known as a free-lance author for German radio programmes on early music. |
 | TUESDAY 12TH JULY at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Joyce Lindorff ‘Perfect Vibrations’ Handel, Pasquali and Alberti Harpsichordist Joyce Lindorff has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Russia, Japan and China, and received solo recitalist awards from the Pro Musicis Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts (US). Based in New York for many years, she performed as keyboardist with the New York Philharmonic and several chamber orchestras. She has performed with the early music ensembles Hesperus, Tempesta di Mare, Newberry Consort, Charbonnier Viol Ensemble, and the Waverly Consort. The New York Times wrote of her solo recital, “brilliant music, brilliantly played,” and Continuo Magazine called her CD of Poglietti’s Rossignolo “absolutely breath-taking...without a doubt the most glorious harpsichord recording I have ever heard!” Lindorff earned a doctorate at Juilliard and is now a professor on Temple University's music faculty. She previously taught at Cornell, later holding Fulbright Professorships in China and Taiwan. Dr. Lindorff is president of the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society. She can be heard on Titanic, Centaur, CRI, Serenus and Digitech recordings. Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB Tickets: £9 and £5 Students. Information: http://www.handelhouse.org Tel: 0207 399 1953 You are invited to join us for refreshments at a local hostelry after the recital. Everyone is most welcome! |
 | TUESDAY 14TH. JUNE at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Charlotte Mattax Chacun à son goût Louis Couperin, d'Anglebert, Charles Noblet, Pierre Février and Bach. Since capturing top prizes at the International Harpsichord Competitions in Bruges and Paris, in both solo harpsichord and basso continuo performance, Charlotte Mattax Moersch has performed at major venues in the United States and Europe, including New York’s Carnegie Hall, London’s Royal Albert Hall, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, and Oxford’s historic Sheldonian Theatre, among others. As a guest artist, she has been heard at international music festivals, including the Festival of the Associazione Musicale Romana, Tage alter musik Regensburg, the Saratoga Festival, the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, and the Bethlehem Bach Festival. As a chamber musician, she has performed with New York’s Grande Bande as well as San Francisco’s American Baroque, and has toured Europe with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. The recipient of several important awards and prizes, she was honored with a Solo Recitalist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Woolley Scholarship for study in Paris. A specialist in 17th-century French music, she is the author of the book, Accompaniment on Theorbo and Harpsichord: Denis Delair’s Traité of 1690, published by Indiana University Press. Her solo recordings include toccatas and partitas of J.S. Bach (Koch International Classics) and the harpsichord sonatas of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (Centaur). She recently recorded the harpsichord suites of Charles Noblet and Pierre Février for Centaur, as well as selected works of Bach and Vivaldi for Analekta. She has also recorded for Dorian Recordings, Newport Classic, and Amon Ra Records. Currently Professor of Harpsichord at the University of Illinois, Charlotte Mattax Moersch studied harpsichord with Kenneth Gilbert, Gustav Leonhardt, Bob van Asperen and Albert Fuller, and has degrees from Yale and Stanford Universities, and the Juilliard School of Music. Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB Tickets: £9 and £5 Students. Information: http://www.handelhouse.org Tel: 0207 399 1953 You are invited to join us for refreshments at a local hostelry after the recital. Everyone is most welcome! |
| SATURDAY 11TH. JUNE at 2.00-4.00 p.m BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY EVENT ‘For Two to Play:’ 4 hands and 2 harpsichords through the ages with Penelope Cave and Helena Brown Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB Tickets: £9 and £5 Students. Information: http://www.handelhouse.org Tel: 0207 399 1953 |
 | TUESDAY 10TH. MAY at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Alice Chan From London to Paris and Leipzig Music by Thomas Arne, Louis Couperin and J.S.Bach Alice Wai Kit Chan is a rising Hong Kong harpsichordist of her generation. She is a Ruth Dyson Award postgraduate scholar at the Royal College of Music in London, studying harpsichord and clavichord with Terence Charlston. As a young promising artist, Alice enjoys playing a wide variety of repertoire from sixteenth-century to contemporary music. Her charm and dedication to baroque music has taken her to appear in many major concert venues in England both as a soloist and a continuo player. In 2010, Alice has played in the London Handel Festival and the Bruges International Harpsichord Competition. More recently, she has played in the masterclasses of Lisa Crawford, Skip Sempé and Miklos Spanyi. And Alice extended her harpsichord performance experience in Italy at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana Siena and the Piccola Accademia di Montisi, supported by the Italian Cultural Society of Hong Kong. At the age of eleven, Alice started intensive musical training in piano performance in the Junior Music Department of the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts. A few years later, the sound and repertoire of old instruments, especially the harpsichord, aroused her curiosity. Since 2007, she started to explore the harpsichord’s sonority and music with Dr. David Chung. Two years later she graduated with top honours at the Hong Kong Baptist University. In addition to music, Alice as a keen ballet dancer was granted the Grade Eight Girls’ Award of the Royal Academy of Dancing. Her passion for both music and dance provides her the opportunity to pursue scholarly research in baroque dance. In this twenty-first century, she believes that the beauty and glamour of harpsichord music could inspire people to rediscover the meaning of life in this fast-paced world. Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB Tickets: £9 and £5 Students. Information: http://www.handelhouse.org Tel: 0207 399 1953 You are invited to join us for refreshments at a local hostelry after the recital. Everyone is most welcome! |
TUESDAY 12TH. APRIL at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Luke Green 'Snapshots and Souvenirs' François Couperin, Bach, Howells. |
 | TUESDAY 8TH. MARCH at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Katharine May `Le goût français` François and Louis Couperin, Böhm, Fischer, Froberger, J. S. Bach, Gaultier Once described by a critic from the Times as `the evening`s feisty and urbane harpsichordist`, Katharine May enjoys a varied career as a performer, teacher and writer for Early Music Today, Music Teacher and the British Clavichord Society. A graduate of the RCM, she has also studied with Jill Severs and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana with Kenneth Gilbert. |
| SATURDAY 19TH. FEBRUARY at 2.00 pm. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY WEEKEND EVENT ‘Les Folies Françoises’ François Couperin with Jane Clark, Elizabeth de la Porte and Gilbert Rowland. TUESDAY 8TH. FEBRUARY at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BRITISH CLAVICHORD SOCIETY Julian Perkins ‘Handel in the Attic’ Handel, Pachelbel, Froberger, Zachow |
 | TUESDAY 11TH. JANUARY at 6.30p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Alina Ratkowska ‘Variations of Goldberg’ music of Bach's pupil Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727-1756) Alina Ratkowska (born 1976), won the first prize at the 2005 Paola Bernardi International Harpsichord Competition in Bologna. She is the originator and director of the Goldberg Festival in Gdańsk, and a lecturer at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. In 2002 the artist was conferred the diploma of Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, the Academy of Early Music in Basel, where she studied under the guidance of Andrea Marcon. She is also a graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, completed with honours, and the Gdańsk University of Technology (post-graduate studies). In 2009, the readers of Gazeta Wyborcza daily voted to award Alina Ratkowska with the 'Sztorm Roku' [Storm of the Year] prize. The Mayor of the City of Gdańsk conferred on her the award for Young Artists in the Field of Culture in 2008. She has received scholarships of the of Culture and Art, Voivod of Pomerania, Culture Foundation, and many others. Alina Ratkowska won the III prize at the van Vlaanderen International Early Music Competition held in Bruges (Belgium). That was one of her most precious awards and distinctions, which she won together with the Esperanto ensemble she conducted. She is a member of Goldberg Baroque Ensemble. The group specialises in performing the music preserved inthe collection of the Gdańsk Library, Polish Academy of Science. The ensemble records this music in the series entitled the 'Musical Heritage of the City of Gdańsk'. |
 | TUESDAY 14TH. DECEMBER 2010 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Nathaniel Mander ‘Stylus Fantasticus’ Frescobaldi, Buxtehude and Bach |
 | TUESDAY 9TH. NOVEMBER 2010 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Tom Foster 'Hop, Skip and a Jump' Thomas Morley, Johann Sebastian Bach and Luigi Cherubini |
| SATURDAY 30TH. OCTOBER 2010 at 2.00 pm. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY WEEKEND EVENT ‘New Music - New Blood’ Up and coming harpsichordists perform solo and chamber works hot off the score by a new generation of composers. Presented by Jane Chapman with composer in residence Duncan MacCleod. |
 | TUESDAY 12TH. OCTOBER 2010 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Ronan Khalil Andreas Bach Buch: An anthology of North German keyboard music J.S Bach, G.Bohm, J.C.F Fischer, M.Marais |
 | TUESDAY 14TH. SEPTEMBER 2010 at 6.30p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Michael Tsalka 'From Byrd to Bartok’ Byrd, Poglietti, Rameau, J. S. Bach-Marcello, D. G. Tuerk and Bartok. |
 | TUESDAY 10 AUGUST 2010 at 6.30 p.m. Hila Katz Vita Contemplativa Byrd, Picchi, Frescobaldi, Bach, Handel & harpsichord pieces by the performer. |
 | TUESDAY 13 JULY 2010 at 6.30 p.m. David Chung François Couperin, CPE Bach, JS Bach |
 | TUESDAY 8th JUNE 2010 at 6.30p.m. Carole Cerasi |
 | TUESDAY 11th MAY 2010 at 6.30p.m. Andreas Skouras 'A la manière de Couperin' A programme of Francois Couperin, Richard Strauss, William Bolcom & Johann Sebastian Bach. |
 | TUESDAY 13TH. APRIL 2010 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Claire Williams 'Bach and his sons' WF Bach, CPE Bach, JC Bach and from the 'Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach'. |
 | TUESDAY 9TH. MARCH 2010 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Gerald Gifford 'Fitzwilliam Handeliana' Handelian Thomas Chilcot and a newly discovered archive in the Founder's Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
 | SATURDAY 13TH FEBRUARY 2010 at 2.00 pm. William Byrd afternoon led by Michael Maxwell Steer with Hila Katz, Asako Ogawa, Anna Tetsuya Handel House Museum,25 Brook Street, W1K 4HB To book, phone 020 7495 1685. |
 | TUESDAY 9TH FEBRUARY 2010 at 6.30 p.m. Robert Woolley 'Pavana Lachrymae' Sweelinck, including his transcription of Dowland's great pavan, Bach and Handel. |
 | TUESDAY 12TH JANUARY 2010 at 6.30p.m. Martin Haywood 'Virginalists and contemporaries' Bull, Dowland, Roberday, Chambonnieres, Frescobaldi and Sweelinck |
