harpsichordist
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harpsichordists
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The 56-year-old harpsichordist, pianist, music director and educator has been a leading figure in the Pacific Northwest’s early music scene since the 1990s.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
The temptation to decorate, then, can be as irresistible to a harpsichordist at the keyboard as it is to an artist with a pencil in hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
She was born Lois Nilson in Worcester, Mass. A classically trained harpsichordist, pianist and organist, she was a part of the Washington classical music scene for nearly 40 years.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021
The Prague-based harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, caught in Miami at lockdown, returned to Europe via the UK for a Bach recording.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 21, 2020
One day the harpsichordist, the principal person in the orchestra, was absent.
From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Hezekiah Butterworth
Only a handful of harpsichordists have become well known, let alone stars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
Bach, a canon to which she dedicated her life as one of the world’s premier harpsichordists, died Sept. 27 at a hospital in Prague.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2017
Mr. Egarr’s playing was as entertaining as his palaver, showing a cleanliness, refinement and style all too rare among harpsichordists, but never at the cost of bountiful fantasy.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2017
But British harpsichordists snapped up his works when they were published, and Charles Avison, the program’s one native Englishman, alluded to Scarlatti’s pieces in his own concertos.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2012
Today's masters are Ralph Kirkpatrick, Sylvia Marlowe and Valenti, and their tight little world is tense with competition: vassal harpsichordists nourish the strain by running joyously to one master with rumors of another's poor recital.
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