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.

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.