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KEYBOARD
'...yet
more marvellous
improvised invention from Julian Perkins on harpsichord.'
- Dame
Emma
Kirkby
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SOLO
With an extensive
repertoire ranging from the English virginalists through to the present
day, Julian Perkins is much in demand as a solo recitalist and chamber
musician. He often devises concerts around particular themes, and likes
to combine familiar works with lesser-known pieces by composers
including Thomas Arne, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Stephen Dodgson,
Herbert Howells, Johann Kuhnau, Johann Gottfried Müthel, and James
Nares.
As well as frequent radio and television broadcasts, solo and chamber
performances on harpsichord, fortepiano, and organ have included
recitals at the Cambridge Summer Music Festival, Hatchlands Park,
London Handel Festival, London International Exhibition of Early Music,
Purcell Room, Ryedale Festival, St David’s Hall, Cardiff, St John’s,
Smith Square, and Tudeley Festival. As a clavichordist, performances
have included J S Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, at the St
Albans International Organ Festival, as well as appearances for
Cambridge Early Music and the International Clavichord Symposium in
Magnano, Italy. Solos in programmes with Sounds Baroque have included
performances for music societies throughout the UK, and at
international festivals in Cheltenham, London, Montpellier, Tel Aviv,
and York.
A teacher at the Royal Academy of Music, Julian Perkins also gives
lecture-demonstrations and educational workshops for all age groups and
abilities. He directs courses for the Benslow Music Trust, has
collaborated on educational and outreach projects with organizations
including the Handel House Museum, Live Music Now, London Organ Forum,
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and Pembroke Academy, and is a
regular Baroque tutor for the Southbank Sinfonia, a guest lecturer at
the London centre of Lawrence University, Wisconsin, and has acted as
Artist in Residence at Fenton House, London.
'...Julian
Perkins, whose account of Herbert Howells' My Lord Sandwich's Dreame was the
most beautiful moment of the whole long afternoon. The BCS [British
Clavichord Society] should spare no pains in trying to get him to
record the whole of Herbert Howells' seminal books, Lambert's Clavichord and Howell's Clavichord.'
- Musical Pointers
Ensemble
Concerto
performances have been
given with ensembles including the London Soloists Chamber Orchestra,
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra of St John’s, Smith
Square, and for the London Bach Festival and Windsor Festival. Solo
performances have included J S Bach’s Brandenburg
Concerto No V, harpsichord concerti by Bach, organ concerti by
Handel and Vivaldi, Poulenc’s Concert
Champêtre, and Falla’s Concerto
for Harpsichord.
As a continuo player, performances and tours with leading ensembles
have included both period instrument groups such as the Academy of
Ancient Music, Classical Opera Company, English Concert, Gabrieli
Consort, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, London Handel Orchestra,
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestra of the Sixteen,
Scholars Baroque, and Trevor Pinnock and Friends, and modern orchestras
including the Britten Sinfonia, City of London Sinfonia, English
Chamber Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, and Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
In addition to directing Sounds Baroque from the keyboard, Julian has
conducted New Chamber Opera, New Kent Opera, Southbank Sinfonia, and
the Morley Baroque Consort, and he often acts as assistant conductor
for leading opera companies. Please visit the Opera page for more information.
'Soprano Eliana
Pretorian's serene performance of [Haydn's] Navicella da vento agitata from La Marchesa Nespola was carried...
with a subtle glitter of sunlight from harpsichordist Julian Perkins.'
- The Independent
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