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"Pawel Siwczak, harpsichordist & early keyboard specialist, 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).

Pawel performs actively as a soloist and with chamber ensembles. He has played in orchestras conducted by Trevor Pinnock, William Christie, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Laurence Cummings and Simon Standage, and his touring activities took him to countries such as France, Holland, Sweden, Malta, Russia, England and Poland.

Pawel’s ensemble, Four Temperaments (previously known as Donum Musicum), has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music for 2007/2008. The group will act as an ensemble-in-residence at the Academy, working alongside current students in various areas of performance. Pawel’s other group, Triologue, has been offered a place on the Early Music Live! scheme being part of the Brighton Early Music Festival. Both groups won Early Music Prizes at the Academy, in 2006 & 2007 respectively. Pawel has also started The King’s Private Musick, an ensemble aiming at popularising some little known repertoire of early vocal-instrumental music. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Penelope Cave studied at the Purcell School and the Royal Academy of Music.  She won the Raymond Russell prize, the National Harpsichord Competition at Southport and was a laureate of Bruges International Harpsichord Competition.  She has given solo performances at the Purcell Room, the Wigmore Hall and at music clubs throughout Britain and festivals have included Flanders, Edinburgh, York, Winchester, Ryedale, Presteigne and Greenbelt.  She has recorded for Hyperion, Naxos, Pace Recordings, Belgian Radio, Classic fm and BBC Radio 3.  Well known for her educational work, she has given masterclasses, workshops and courses in France, Italy, Germany and Mallorca and throughout Britain, including the universities of Ulster & Stirling, Benslow, Jackdaws and Dartington International Summer School. …”

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“Robin Bigwood is one of the UK’s busiest harpsichordists, performing regularly as a soloist and as a continuo player with Passacaglia, Feinstein Ensemble, London Baroque, The Sixteen, Florilegium and Britten Sinfonia. He has also played with Parley of Instruments, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Musicians of the Globe and London Mozart Players.

As a recitalist his repertoire encompasses all the major works of the Baroque period, by J S Bach, Handel, Francois Couperin and Rameau. He also has a special interest in the English ‘virginalist’ composers Byrd, Bull and their contemporaries, as well as the C17th French clavecinistes Jean-Henri d’Anglebert, Louis Couperin and Jacques-Champion de Chambonnieres. ...

Outside of performing, Robin has taught harpsichord at Centre for Young Musicians (London), Trinity College of Music and The Yehudi Menhin School. He runs The Workshop Series, an acclaimed series of concerts held at the workshop of master harpsichord maker and restorer Malcolm Rose, and also assists with the website of The British Harpsichord Society. He is passionate about recording technology, has produced and engineered many successful CDs, and writes regularly for the respected recording magazine Sound on Sound. See the Intro page for links to websites detailing these other projects. He lives in Surrey in South East England with wife Annabel Knight and a black cat recently immortalised in the soundboard painting of Robin’s copy of the Anon 1667 French harpsichord in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.“

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"Israeli-born Sharona Joshua studied the piano with Professor Alexander Volkov and was awarded numerous scholarships during her studies at the Rubin Academy leading to a BMus degree in performance in 1995. In 1993-4 she studied fortepiano in London with the late Christopher Kite after being awarded a further scholarship to spend a year at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She took part in masterclasses at the Jerusalem Music Centre with fortepianists Zvi Meniker and Malcolm Bilson and returned to England in 1996 to study early keyboards with David Roblou and Richard Egarr. She also took tuition with fortepiano specialist Sally Sargent in Vienna.

Sharona is now based permanently in London where she appears regularly as a soloist, chamber musician and continuo player on concert platform and radio and gives several performances each season at the South Bank Centre and the Wigmore Hall. She has performed as soloist at major festivals all over the UK as well as abroad. Sharona has also given numerous masterclasses in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales." See website for more info. (ed.)

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“Steven Devine is the harpsichordist for London Baroque, the co-principal with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and many groups. He also has a fine solo career on harpsichord, clavichord and fortepiano.

As a Music Director, Steven has appeared all over the world with a variety of orchestras and opera companies.“

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Added on: Sep 07, 2011 | Hits: 345

"Terence Charlston is a specialist performer on early keyboard instruments and widely acknowledged for his engaging and expressive performances. He has been described as one of Britain’s leading early keyboard players and his sympathetic command of original instruments has made him a frequent performer at collections of early keyboard instruments all over the world.

Terence Charlston was born in Blackpool, Lancashire. From an early age, he was drawn to the sound and repertoire of old instruments, especially the harpsichord, which he first experienced through recordings and BBC Radio 3 broadcasts. He studied piano and organ from childhood and later took degrees in Oxford and London, specialising in early keyboard performance. As a solo harpsichordist and chamber musician he has toured extensively within Europe, as well as to Japan and the USA. He is well known to chamber music audiences, especially for his work with the quartet London Baroque with whom he gave over 400 concerts worldwide between 1995 and 2007. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Arthur Haas is renowned throughout Europe and America as a peerless pedagogue and performer of Baroque and contemporary music. After receiving top prize in the 1975 Paris harpsichord competition, Mr. Haas remained in Paris from 1975 to 1983, performing in most major French early music festivals including le Festival Estival de Paris, Mai Musical de Bordeaux, and the Saintes Early Music Festival. Praised by Le Monde for his interpretation of French keyboard music, Professor Haas has recorded duo-harpsichhord music of Gaspard LeRoux with William Christie, solo CDs of music by D'Anglebert, Forqueray, and harpsichord music of the English Restoration. Prof. Haas is a member of the Aulos Ensemble and Musical Assembly, and has toured with such leading Baroque musicians as Marion Verbruggen, Julianne Baird, Stephen Preston, and Laurence Dreyfus. Much in demand as a teacher, Prof. Haas is a faculty member of summer early music music institutes in Berkeley, Amherst, and the Longy School of Music; he has also taught at the Eastman School and at Stanford University.“

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Added on: Mar 21, 2010 | Hits: 343

“Barbara Cadranel is a dynamic harpsichordist who has delighted audiences across the globe with her fresh interpretation of the Baroque Period and contemporary music. Along with performing throughout the United States, Europe, South America, she’s also given master classes and appeared on a number of radio and TV shows.

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At the moment, she is editing one of Fernando Valenti’s books including “The Scarlatti Handbook” which was dedicated to her. She has recently toured Peru, Canada, and performed in “The Boston Early Music Festival” where she has played numerous times, and as usual, after that festival, she played a recital for William F. Buckley, Jr. and has done so until his last year. She has concert bookings globally through 2014, and many of these concerts include mini residencies at universities and “informances” that engage kids and teens, making classical music relevant and fun. Please keep an eye out as we will be streaming live webisodes of Barbara here on the website in 2011.“

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“Dr. Barbara Harbach, Professor of Music at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, has toured extensively as both concert organist and harpsichordist.  Her appearances include recitals throughout the United States and Canada, Korea, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Russian Siberia, as well as solo and continuo roles with symphony orchestras. She holds academic degrees from Pennsylvania State University (B.A.), Yale University (M.M.A.),

Musikhochschule (Konzertdiplom) in Frankfurt, Germany, and the Eastman School of Music (D.M.A.).  In 2002, Harbach received an honorary doctorate in music, honoris causa, from Wilmington College, Ohio. 

Her lively performances and recordings have captured the imagination of many American composers, and the body of work written for and dedicated to Harbach is substantial.  Musical America has called her “nothing short of brilliant,” and Gramophone has cited her as an “acknowledged interpreter – and, indeed, muse – of modern harpsichord music.”  She was host of the weekly television music series Palouse Performance seen throughout the Inland Northwest. 

As a composer, Harbach has written symphonies, works for chamber ensemble, string orchestra, organ, harpsichord; musicals, choral anthems, a film score, a modern ballet, and many arrangements for brass and organ of various Baroque works.  In 2004, her first symphony, Veneration for Orchestra, was premiered at Wilmington College, Ohio, and her second symphony, One of Ours – a Cather Symphony, was premiered by the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra.

She is also involved in the research, editing and publication of manuscripts of eighteenth century keyboard composers.  Her work is available in both recorded and published form through Naxos Records, Gasparo Records, Kingdom Records, Albany Records, Northeastern Records, Hester Park, Robert King Music, Elkan-Vogel, Augsburg Publishing, Agape Music and Vivace Press.“

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Added on: Jun 07, 2009 | Hits: 296

“The Boston Clavichord Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of the clavichord and its music. The society sponsors concerts, masterclasses, lecture/demonstrations and other clavichord-related events. Although these events are primarily local, through our bulletin and web site we serve a wider audience throughout North America. We also function as the contact point to other clavichord societies throughout the world.“

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"Hailed by New York Magazine as a "leading light of New York's original-instrument scene," Bradley Brookshire has emerged as one of the most noted Bach interpreters of his generation. His distinctive approach to Bach's harpsichord music has led to sustained critical acclaim by the New York Times ...

A member of the Purchase College (SUNY) faculty since 1998, Brookshire holds the position of Director of Graduate Studies in the Conservatory of Music, where he leads the Purchase College Camerata and teaches graduate courses in musicology and counterpoint. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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“Hailed as a "superb harpsichordist" by the  Kansas City Star, Christina Edelen brings a depth of experience, knowledge, and virtuosity to a career in early keyboard performance and teaching that has spanned two decades in the United States and Europe.  On harpsichord, organ, clavichord, and fortepiano, Ms Edelen has performed as soloist and in numerous ensembles and festivals, including Opera Atelier, Santa Fe chamber music festival, and the Berkeley, San Antonio,  and Bloomington Early Music Festivals. She studied at the Indiana University Early Music Institute and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and was a finalist at the Bodky International Competition. Ms. Edelen is a popular teacher and lecturer, and has served on the faculties of Baylor University and the University of Houston.  Ms. Edelen is also active as a church organist in Amsterdam and Haarlem as well as the United States. She is currently concluding doctoral research in musical treatises of 17th century England.  Recordings include the complete sonatas for Harpsichord and Flute of Boismortier and a selection of English Baroque Organ Concertos.“

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Added on: Apr 18, 2010 | Hits: 300

“Welcome to my website! I am a music historian and performer on historical keyboard instruments. I teach at Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, where I am Professor of Music and Chair of the Music Department. Welcome to my website! I am a music historian and performer on historical keyboard instruments. I teach at Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, where I am Professor of Music and Chair of the Music Department.  ..“

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“Davitt Moroney was born in England in 1950. After studies at King’s College (University of London), he completed the Master’s program in musicology with a thesis on Italian music for the Roman Counter-Reformation: "Giovanni Animuccia, Missarum Liber Primus" (1972). He studied performance with the Austrian organist Susi Jeans, the Canadian harpsichordist Kenneth Gilbert and Dutch organist and harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt, and holds concert performance and teaching diplomas from London’s Royal Academy of Music (1974) and Royal College of Music (1975). He entered the doctoral program in musicology at Berkeley in 1975. His doctoral dissertation, "Under Fower Sovereygnes: Thomas Tallis and the Transformation of English Polyphony" (1980) was a study of the music composed by Thomas Tallis and William Byrd for the English Reformation. After leaving Berkeley, for twenty-one years he was based in Paris, working mostly as a freelance recitalist in many countries. For his services to music he was named Chevalier in "Order of Cultural Merit" by Prince Rainier III of Monaco (1988), and the French government named him Officier in the "Order of Arts and Letters" (2000). He returned to Berkeley as a Professor in August 2001. He is also University Organist. …”

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"Don began playing in public at the age of 12, moved to Boston, MA in 1961 to study at the Berklee School (now College) of Music. In 1962 he took a "temporary" job with the Harpsichord Maker William Dowd, and stayed 28 years. During this time of employment, he was encouraged to try some of this material on the harpsichord, and it was so well received that concerts and recordings became an increasingly important part of his activity.

He has appeared in Europe at Merseburger Orgeltage 2002, on Austrian Radio, at the Rodin Gallery in Seoul, South Korea, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. He has had four appearances with the Augusta (GA) Pops Orchestra playing his orchestrated keyboard arrangements. " See website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Mar 03, 2008 | Hits: 392

"... * you can watch me tune and play harpsichords! My doctorate is in harpsichord. *I've written various essays and articles (mostly about music) *St Olaf College has a streamed video recording of a concert I gave there with Martin Hodel, 26 September 2007. It's trumpet and organ music. *My research on Johann Sebastian Bach's tuning is one of my big projects from 2004 to present. Here are the academic papers, the simpler explanations, and the hands-on instructions. There is also a list of recordings using that tuning system. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Professor, music theory, harpsichord: B.A., M.A. in Music Education, University of Northern Iowa, Ph.D. in Music Theory, University of Iowa; seven years public school music teaching in Iowa; first played harpsichord under Robert Donington in the University of Iowa collegium musicum, studied in master classes with the French harpsichordist Kenneth Gilbert; performed throughout South Carolina in solo recitals and as a continuo player in many chamber groups, including the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra; author of freshman theory text, "Introduction to the Study of Counterpoint" Affiliations: Society for Music Theory, Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Apr 26, 2008 | Hits: 393

"Irma Rogell was the last student of the great harpsichordist Wanda Landowska. In 1960, she played her debut concert at Boston's Jordan Hall, embarking on a successful career as a performer and teacher.

Ms. Rogell toured throughout Europe, South America and the United States. She has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Leinsdorf and the Brazil Symphony Orchestra under deCarvalho; she has also played with the Camarata of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

As a teacher, she has served on the faculty of the Longy School of Music, the York College of the City University of New York and the New England Conservatory of Music. She has presented master classes at Harvard University and was a soloist and lecturer at the Aegina Arts Centre in Greece.

Ms. Rogell has premiered suites and sonatas for harpsichord composed and dedicated to her by the American composer Nicholas Van Slyck; she has also received compositions from composers such as Willi Pelemans, Josip Andric, Frank Martin, Dalibor Vackar and Ernst Levy.

Today she continues to record on the AFKA label. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"James M. Guthrie (D.M.A., Louisiana State University, composer, performer, and music educator), currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music, and as Artistic Director of the Meherrin Chamber Orchestra at Chowan University. Dr. Guthrie serves as the area coordinator for the Music Industry Track. In addition to course work in the music industry, his teaching duties include Applied Strings, Organ, Theory, Aural Skills, and Composition. Guthrie coordinates the annual Music Industry Day event, as well as two New Music Day concerts at Chowan.

Dr. Guthrie has been active in the research and performance practices of music from early periods in music history. He founded the Chowan University Collegium Musicum in 2007, and performs on a variety of period instruments, including the harpsichord, virginal, viola da gamba, and recorder. He has performed with the LSU Collegium Musicum, the Delta Viol Consort, the ULL Collegium Musicum, the Chowan University Collegium Musicum, the Meherrin Chamber Orchestra, the Chowan Chorus, the Cantata Chorus, the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"Harpsichordist Jason J. Moy holds the Bachelor of Harpsichord Performance and Master of Early Music Performance degrees from McGill University in Montreal, where he trained under Hank Knox and Luc Beauséjour. In addition to his principal teachers, he received much valuable guidance from Bruce Haynes, Jory Vinikour, and other mentors. Jason has concertized extensively in the United States, Canada, and Europe; currently based in his native Chicago, he wrapped up his Montreal sojourn this past year by performing J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto with the McGill Baroque Orchestra. While he loves the solo repertoire, particularly that of eighteenth-century Germany and France, Jason is especially fond of chamber music. His continuo playing, on organ and harpsichord, has been described as both “highly rhetorical” and “sensitive and very vibrant.” See website for more details. (ed.)

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• 1973-1976 The New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts Bachelor of Music Degree, Piano

• 1977-1979 The New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts Masters of Music Degree, Harpsichord

• 1976-1977 Studied conducting with Dr. Antonia Brico, Denver, Colorado

• 1982-1983 Studied harpsichord with Ton Koopman, Amsterdam, The Netherlands "
  

Added on: May 04, 2008 | Hits: 402

"Organist-Choir Director, St. Peter's-on-the-Canal Episcopal Church, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts Pianist and Harpsichordist -- all-Ravel recital in Fall River in the spring, upcoming programs of Pachelbel's domestic music and the astonishing keyboard music of Baroque Valencia. Piano and harpsichord tuner and technician -- specialising in historical tunings Founder-Director of the Fall River Fipple Fluters, an amateur recorder-playing group, and the Delight Consort, a professional Renaissance and Early Baroque ensemble. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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"JungHae Kim holds a Bachelors Degree in Harpsichord Performance from the Peabody Conservatory, and a Masters Degree in Historical performance in Harpsichord from the Oberlin Conservatory. She completed her studies with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam on a Haskell Scholarship, and holds an Advanced Degree in Harpsichord Performance from AmsterdamÕs Sweelinck Conservatorium. Ms. Kim has performed in concert throughout United States, Europe and in Asia as a soloist and with numerous historical instruments ensembles including Southern California Chamber Orchestra, Pierce Baroque Dance Company, the Oberlin Baroque Orchestra, the Indiana Baroque Orchestra, the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival Period Ensemble, Brandywine Baroque, Musica Angelica, and Music's ReCreation. She performed with American Baroque at the Library of Congress and has performed with Mirable on the Bloomington Early Music Festival and San Francisco Early Music Society Series. She soloed with the San Francisco Symphony in 2005 in a series of performances of BachÕs Fifth Brandenburg Concerto and performed VivaldiÕs Four Seasons at the 2006 Britt Festival with Sarah Chang. She has been a soloist at the Assisi Music Festival in Italy. In 2007, Ms. Kim has performed with the New Century Chamber Orchestra & Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg, and in May she performed with Brandywine Baroque, Davitt Moroney, Arthur Haas, Adam Perl, and Karen Flint in a series of concerts presenting the complete Bach Harpsichord Concertos on Antique Instruments (A series of recordings is now in process from this event). During the summer, Ms. Kim performed at the Music In The Vineyards Summer Festival in Napa, CA and taught at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival where she is on faculty. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Apr 06, 2008 | Hits: 470

"A native of Santiago, Chile, Lionel Party studied with Elena Waiss at the Escuela Moderna de Musica, graduating in 1965. In 1966 he was awarded a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst scholarship by the West German government to study piano with Rosl Schmid and harpsichord with Hedwig Bilgram at the Musikhochschule of Munich.

In 1970 Mr. Party came to The Juilliard School to study harpsichord with Albert Fuller first as a Fulbright scholar and then as recipient of a Juilliard Alumni grant. He obtained his doctor of musical arts from Juilliard in 1976. Mr. Party has played solo recitals in New York City's major concert halls including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Frick Collection, Alice Tully Hall, Abraham Goodman House, 92nd St. Y - as well as Boston, Washington and other U.S. cities. He has made numerous appearances with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Waverly Consort, Solisti New York, among other ensembles. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Aug 06, 2008 | Hits: 378

"Mark Kroll has been acclaimed as one of the world's leading harpsichordists and fortepianists. During a career spanning more than three decades, he has performed throughout North and South America, Europe and the Middle East, winning critical praise for his expressive playing and virtuosity.

Mark Kroll's concert tours have included appearances as the official guest of the city of Barcelona, as featured soloist in Germany's Regensburg Early Music Festival, France's Festival Ambronay, Lisbon's Gulbenkian Foundation, Rome's Conservatorio St. Caecilia and Associazione Musicale Romana, Poland's Dni Bachowski, Slovenijas's Radovljica Festival and, in this country, the Aston Magna, Tanglewood, Saratoga, Northwest Bach, and Mostly Mozart Festivals. He has been the first American harpsichordist to appear in numerous countries, including Abu Dhabi and Dubai of the United Arab Emirates. His recent tours to Israel included concerts, lectures and masterclasses in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Kroll has appeared as concerto soloist with some of the world's major orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, the Belgrade Chamber Orchestra and I Solisti di Zagreb.

Kroll's extensive list of recordings includes solo harpsichord works of J.S. Bach, Handel, D. Scarlatti, F. Couperin, Duphly and Balbastre; the complete sonatas for violin and harpsichord and for flute and harpsichord of J.S. Bach; violin sonatas of C.P.E. Bach and S. LeDuc; Schubert's three Sonatinas for fortepiano and violin; a world-premiere recording of Mozart's "Haffner" and "Linz" symphonies as transcribed by J. N. Hummel for fortepiano and instruments; Biber's Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord; and two CDs of contemporary American harpsichord music. He has made numerous radio and TV appearances, including Radio Nacional Espaqa, Radio Yugoslavia, Radio Catalunya, National Public Radio, Westdeutscherrundfunk Köln, Mitteldeutscherrundfunk, Bayerische Rundfunk, France Musique, the B.B.C., the C.B.C., and Radio Smithsonian.

A noted authority on performance practice and period instruments, Kroll has contributed to scholarly publications and written articles on a wide range of topics for general readership magazines and journals. These include chapters on French harpsichord music; 17th-century performance practice; the piano techniques of Beethoven and his contemporaries; and two editions of Hummel’s transcriptions of opera overtures and Mozart's symphonies. Kroll has recently published three books: Playing the Harpsichord Expressively (Scarecrow Press); The Beethoven Violin Sonatas (co-edited with Lewis Lockwood, University of Illinois Press); and Johann Nepomuk Hummel: A Musician and His World (Scarecrow Press). " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

Added on: Mar 24, 2008 | Hits: 495