British Harpsichord Society Events
 | TUESDAY 14TH MAY 2013 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL From Bach to the Third Millenium: Bach, Couperin, Handel, Scarlatti and Hirabayashi Asako Hirabayashi Composer and harpsichordist, Asako Hirabayashi’s first recording on Albany Label, whose program is entirely composed and played by herself, was selected as one of the 5 best classical CDs of the year 2010 by Minneapolis Star Tribune. It was described as “A superb player, is also a gifted creator of music” (The Diapason, 2010),“A strong case for her instrument's third-millennium credentials…the best harpsichordist. A delight!”(Minneapolis Star Tribune, 2010),“Twenty-four tracks of passionate, sparkling, lyrical, even poignant music to help secure the harpsichord’s presence in the new millennium.” (Fanfare, 2010) “…charming, unreservedly melodic, poignant and lighthearted”(American Record Guild, 2010) “ Her contemporary harpsichord music is ingenious, fanciful, diverse and unpretentious… I admit I’ve never been a fan of the harpsichord, she has changed all that for me and awakened me to the idea that a composer can reinvent an instrument…” (Fanfare, 2010)“ “With stylistic influences from her native country, American jazz, French Impressionism, and Latin and South American rhythms and sensibilities, Asako Hirabayashi brings us enticing music and outstanding performances on this impressive recording. (International Alliance for Women in Music, 2011) As a harpsichordist, she has been described by The Music Connoisseur as “an impressive talent, brilliant,” and by The New York Concert Review as “a gifted harpsichordist with genuine… refined sensibilities for phrasing, dynamic gradations and nuanced tonal beauty”. She has appeared as a guest featured soloist in international festivals and music series worldwide, including her New York debut recital at Carnegie Hall. She won numerous grants and awards including the 2009 -10 McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians, 2012 Artist Initiative grant and the Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions. Her performances have been broadcast worldwide and she appeared as a guest solo performer on A Prairie Home Companion in 2009. As a composer, she won several first prizes at international composition competitions, such as the Alienor International Harpsichord Composition Competition (won the 6th, 7th 8th Alienor consecutively) and NHK International Song Writing Competition in Japan, and recently awarded 2012 Jerome Fund for New Music from American Composers Forum to write an opera. She holds Doctoral degree from the Juilliard School and is currently on the faculty at St. Paul Conservatory 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 8TH JUNE 2013 at 2.00 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY EVENT Jacques Duphly with Nathaniel Mander and other players TBA |
 | TUESDAY 11TH JUNE 2013 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Muffat, Father and Son (includes world premiere of modern performances of recently discovered works by Georg and Gottleib Muffat) Naoko Akutagawa Naoko Akutagawa was born in Hiroshima in 1974. She studied piano there from the age of three and in Tokyo with Masayasu Oshima. At sixteen she switched to the harpsichord, and studied privately with Chiyoko Arita before entering her class at the Toho Gakuen College of Music. Her chamber music instructor there was Masahiro Arita. She took her soloist diploma in 1997. In that year she entered the Musikhochschule in Würzburg, Germany, as a student of Glen Wilson, ending her studies with the Meisterklasse diploma in 2001. She had been appointed assistant professor in 1999, a position in which she continues to the present. Her recordings have been broadcast by the BBC, Australian Broadcasting Company and by Japanese State Radio. Naoko Akutagawa made her début recording for Naxos in 2005 with the complete works for harpsichord by Gaspard le Roux, and followed this with a highly acclaimed selection of works by Graupner, selected works by Bernardo Storace, and violin sonatas by Franz Benda. She was a prize-winner of the 2006 Bonporti Competition in Rovereto, Italy, and at the 2008 Göttingen Händel Festival Competition, and in 2007 was a guest music member of staff at the Netherlands Opera, Amsterdam. In 2012 she was guest lecturer and recitalist at Toho Gakuen. 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 9TH JULY 2013 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL French Flamboyance French ornate style and its influence on German composers: Chambonnieres, d'Anglebert, Rameau, Fux and Gottlieb Muffat Katarzyna Kowalik Katarzyna Kowalik is an Artist Fellow at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she completed MPerf in Harpsichord Performance with Carole Cerasi, James Johnstone and Nicholas Parle. Katarzyna has performed extensively as a soloist and continuo player in Poland and United Kingdom as well as in Germany, France, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Hungary, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, North Korea. 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 13TH AUGUST 2013 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Bach Partitas Malcolm Proud The Irish musician Malcolm Proud combines an international career as harpsichordist and organist with his work as an an instrumental teacher and senior lecturer at Waterford Institute of Technology. He is also organist and choirmaster of St. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny. He studied with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam. He has given concerts and made over thirty CD recordings with leading ensembles, instrumentalists and singers including the English Baroque Soloists, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (conducted by Gustav Leonhardt) and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra. He has toured throughout Europe, North America and Japan and is a member of the Irish Baroque Orchestra and a founder member, with Swiss violinist Maya Homburger, of Camerata Kilkenny. His solo recordings include J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Clavier Übung Book 3 (Organ) and most recently the 6 Keyboard Partitas – all on Maya 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! |
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 | TUESDAY 9TH APRIL 2013 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL 'Les Idées Heureuses' Louis & François Couperin, d'Anglebert & Froberger Frédérick Haas Frédérick Haas is professor of harpsichord at the Royal Conservatorium of Brussels. He teaches regularly in master classes in various countries. He was awarded solo diplomas at both Amsterdam and Brussels conservatoires, in addition to a Musicology degree from the Sorbonne University. He studied organ with André Isoir, and participated in numerous master classes. His approach has been enriched by researches with builders, and by an intimate knowledge of original instruments, allowing him to contribute actively to the rediscovery of expressive, sounding and technical possibilities of harpsichord. As a soloist, or leading the Ausonia ensemble, for which he creates original programmes, he has performed extensively, and has made numerous CD recordings representing summit of the repertoire for solo harpsichord. 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 MARCH 2013 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL 'French elegance and Italian virtuosity' Harpsichord music by Jacques Duphly Medea Bindewald Born in Hannover (Germany) in 1973, she has played the harpsichord since she was eight years old. Her performances are essentially characterized by her fine, dynamic touch, a natural flow and, above all, the idea to “play from the soul” as postulated by C.P.E. Bach in his treatise “Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen” (The Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments) . Having studied harpsichord with Robert Hill in Freiburg, Medea received her Teaching diploma in 1997. She pursued her studies with Ketil Haugsand in Cologne, where she graduated with distinction in 2001 and passed her Concert Exam in 2003. She participated in master classes with Gustav Leonhardt and was awarded scholarships to attend courses at the International Handel Academy at Karlsruhe and the European Academy for Music and Theatre at Montepulciano (Italy). She further developed her skills in continuo playing by studying with Jesper Christensen at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Medea was a finalist at the Solo Competition of the Deutscher Musikrat in Berlin in 2001 and won second prize at the Deutscher Hochschulwettbewerb in Saarbrücken in 2003. She received an honourable mention at the Musica Antiqua Competition of the Flanders Festival in Bruges in 2004. Her website is at www.medeabindewald.com. Image credit: www.hollisphotography.com 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 FEBRUARY 2013 at 6.30p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Laurence Cummings 'Mr Handel: A necromancer amidst his own enchantments...' Laurence Cummings is one of Britain's most exciting and versatile exponents of historical performance both as a conductor and a harpsichord player. He was an organ scholar at Christ Church Oxford where he graduated with first class honours. In 1996 he was appointed Head of Historical Performance at the Royal Academy of Music which has led to both baroque and classical orchestras forming part of the established curriculum. He is a trustee of Handel House London and was also Musical Director of the Tilford Bach Society. Image credit: Sheila Rock 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 8TH JANUARY 2013 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL ‘The Most Celebrated Aires’ Transcriptions of opera arias and overtures by Lully, Purcell, Handel and Rameau Christopher Bucknall Christopher Bucknall studied at Lincoln College, Oxford and the Royal Academy of Music, studying harpsichord and fortepiano with Carole Cerasi and conducting with Paul Brough. As a harpsichordist, Christopher has performed in many of Europe’s top concert halls, working with Rachel Podger and her group, Brecon Baroque, Early Opera Company, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Classical Opera Company and The Kings Consort. He has also assisted on Handel, Rinaldo (Glyndebourne Festival Opera), Handel, Alessandro and Il Pastor Fido (London Handel Festival), Cavalli, Eliogabalo (Grange Park Opera), Britten The Turn of the Screw (Aldeburgh Music) as well as worked as music staff on further productions for Glyndebourne, English National Opera, Iford Arts and The Classical Opera Company. Also passionate about working with choral music, Christopher is in increasing demand as a chorus master. He has chorus mastered Purcell, The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne Festival Opera), Bach, Matthäus-Passion (Aldeburgh Music), Charpentier, Acteon (Dartington International Festival) and returns to Glyndebourne for Rameau, Hippolyte et Aricie this coming summer. |
 | TUESDAY 11TH DECEMBER 2012 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Pamela Nash 'Absence and Invention' To acknowledge the recent passing of Hans Werner Henze, the programme includes the composer's Absences along with Inventions by Henze's contemporary, Stephen Dodgson. They are joined by the music by another living composer, Louis Andriessen as well as works by Byrd and le Roux. 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 13TH NOVEMBER 2012 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Katarzyna Kowalik 'Femmes fatales and Muses'. A programme featuring music by women composers and portrayals of women by male composers, including works by Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Jean-François Dandrieu, Jacques Duphly, Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, and Wanda Landowska. Katarzyna Kowalik is an Artist Fellow at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she completed MPerf in Harpsichord Performance with Carole Cerasi, James Johnstone and Nicholas Parle. Katarzyna has performed extensively as a soloist and continuo player in Poland and United Kingdom as well as in Germany, France, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Hungary, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, North Korea. |
 | TUESDAY 9TH OCTOBER 2012 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Robin Bigwood and Carolyn Gibley Music for two harpsichords by J S & W F Bach, Le Roux, & Stephen Dodgson Carolyn Gibley Carolyn’s interest in baroque music began at an early age whilst at Chethams School of Music. Following further studies at the University of East Anglia and as a post-graduate at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she has been able to combine this love with that of working in small chamber ensembles. For the last 12 years Carolyn has played with The Brook Street Band with whom she has played at major venues in the UK and around Europe such as Wigmore Hall and Snape Maltings, as well as released several CDs. Carolyn has edited the songs of the 17th century Italian Luigi Rossi from a manuscript held in Christchurch College, Oxford, and for The Brook Street Band has transcribed Bach’s Organ Trio Sonatas for two violins and continuo and Handel’s recorder sonatas for cello. Carolyn has recently taken on a large country garden complete with lake in South Norfolk, and when she isn’t tending it she and her husband enjoy walking, cooking and volunteering for the RSPB. Robin Bigwood Robin grew up near Bristol and studied harpsichord and piano at the Royal College of Music in London. He won the Broadwood Harpsichord Competition in 1995. Nowadays he performs regularly as a soloist and continuo player with Feinstein Ensemble and Passacaglia, and has also appeared with The King's Consort, London Baroque, Florilegium, Britten Sinfonia, and The Sixteen. Outside of performing, Robin has taught harpsichord at Centre for Young Musicians in London, Trinity College of Music and The Yehudi Menuhin School. With flautist and recorder player Annabel Knight he runs The Workshop Series, an acclaimed series of concerts in Lewes, East Sussex, held at the workshop of harpsichord maker and restorer Malcolm Rose. He is also passionate about recording technology, established the label Barn Cottage Records, and is a regular author for the recording magazine Sound on Sound |
 | TUESDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER 2012 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Nathaniel Mander Suites Françaises Nathaniel Mander presents a programme exploring the French influence on the baroque keyboard suite. Music by JS Bach, Rameau and Froberger. Harpsichordist Nathaniel Mander, winner of the 10th Broadwood solo harpsichord competition, graduated in 2011 with first class honours from the Royal Academy of Music in London where he studied with Carole Cerasi. |
 | SATURDAY 23RD JUNE 2012, 2.30-4.30 PM BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY WEEKEND EVENT Jane Clark, with Pawel Siwczak and Laura Tivendale, 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 3600 http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk |
 | TUESDAY 12th JUNE 2012 at 6.30pm BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Cosimo Prontera 'Keyboard composers from the Neapolitan Royal Chapel' Cosimo Prontera was born in Brindisi, graduated in Organ and Cembalo, followed his studies with Tom Koopman, Wolfgang Zerer, Eduard Koiman and he specialisd in Neapolitan music with Antonio Florio and in basso continuo with Jesper Boy Christensen. Active as musicologist, the special focus of his research is on Apulian musicians of XVII e XVIII centuries who created the “scuola napoletana”. He published the first volume of Leonardo Leo's keyboard music (Le Composizioni per Tastiera.Rome: “Il Melograno” edition. 2003), and the second volume “I Partimenti” is in preparation. 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 8th MAY 2012 at 6.30 p.m. BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL Julian Perkins (Photo: ©Benjamin Harte) Described as ‘a leader in the new generation of keyboard virtuosi’ by Cambridge Early Music, Julian Perkins performs widely as a soloist, conductor and chamber musician. He directs numerous concerts with his chamber group, Sounds Baroque, with whom he has launched a series of cantata recordings with Avie Records entitled Conversazioni. Julian’s conducting engagements have included staged productions of Telemann’s Pimpinone for the Buxton Festival, Arne’s Artaxerxes for New Chamber Opera, a Baroque-inspired play for New Kent Opera, and a contemporary production for the Cambridge Summer Music Festival. Forthcoming projects as a conductor include Mozart’s La finta giardiniera for the Dutch National Opera Academy in 2012. Julian’s solo discography includes works by Handel, Scarlatti, Nares and Dodgson. He has appeared as a soloist at venues such as London’s Southbank Centre and Barbican Centre, and often performs as a soloist and continuo player with leading period instrument ensembles such as the Academy of Ancient Music, English Concert, Gabrieli Consort, King’s Consort, New London Consort and The Sixteen. He has performed and recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and has assisted on numerous productions ranging from Monteverdi to Mozart. Singing continues to inspire Julian, for whom performing in groups such as the Monteverdi Choir was a formative experience. In addition to this, Julian is a guest teacher at the National Opera Studio, and directs courses. He has also taught and lectured at the Royal Academy of Music, where he was elected an Associate in recognition of his standing in the music profession. www.julianperkins.com 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 10TH. APRIL 2012 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! |
| TUESDAY 13TH. MARCH 2012 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 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. 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 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. |
 | 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 3600 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 |
 | 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 3600 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 3600 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. |
 | 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 |
| 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) |
 | 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 |
