Skip Sempé, virtuoso harpsichordist, director and founder of Capriccio Stravagante, is at the forefront of today’s musical personalities in Renaissance and Baroque music. Sempé grew up in New Orleans, studied music, musicology, organology and the history of art in the United States at the Oberlin Conservatory and completed his training in Europe with Gustav Leonhardt… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Professors 2007-2012
Menno van Delft
Menno van Delft was born in Amsterdam in 1963. He studied harpsichord, organ and musicology with Gustav Leonhardt, Bob van Asperen, Piet Kee, Jacques van Oortmerssen and Willem Elders, in 1988 winning the clavichord prize at the C. Ph. E. Bach Competition in Hamburg. He has given concerts and master classes throughout Europe and the… Continue Reading
Jacques Ogg
Jacques Ogg is a performer on both harpsichord and fortepiano; he teaches at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague; he conducts and he makes recordings, either solo or with friends and colleagues. He was born in Maastricht (the Netherlands) and studied harpsichord in the city of his birth with Anneke Uittenbosch. In 1970 he went to… Continue Reading
Zvi Meniker
Harpsichordist, organist, fortepianist and conductor Zvi Meniker was born in Moscow and raised in Israel. He began advanced musical studies at the age of 15. Meniker received diplomas with distinction from the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Zurich Academy of Music, where he studied with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Johann Sonnleitner, before moving on to the USA… Continue Reading
Gustav Leonhardt
For almost 50 years, Gustav Leonhardt – harpsichordist, organist, conductor – is counted among the most respected specialists in both the theory and practice of early music. Acclaimed for his numerous recordings of music ranging from keyboard masterpieces of the early Baroque to Mozart’s sonatas, Leonhardt has played a critical role in bringing period-instrument performance… Continue Reading
Ketil Haugsand
Ketil Haugsand, professor of harpsichord at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, counts as one of the great harpsichordists and Early Music personalities of today – appearing in many prestigious festivals and concert series in Europe, the U.S.A. and Israel, both as recitalist, in chamber music, or as leader and conductor of the Norwegian Baroque… Continue Reading
Pierre Hantaï
The French harpsichordist, Pierre Hantaï, became passionately attached to the music of Bach around the age of ten. Thanks to the influence of Gustav Leonhardt he began to study the harpsichord, alone at first, then guided by the American teacher Arthur Haas. He gave his first concerts at an early age, alone or with his… Continue Reading
Jesper B. Christensen
Jesper Christensen is teaching harpsichord, continuo-playing, ensemble, fortepiano and performance practise since 1988 at the Schola Cantorum, Basel. Internationally renowned as a leading expert in the field of Basso Continuo, he has given innumerable concerts and master classes in most European centres and festivals of Early Music. His pioneering, profound studies as well as his… Continue Reading
Francesco Cera
Francesco Cera, after completing his organ and harpsichord studies under Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and Gustav Leonhardt, he is regarded as one of Italy’s leading early music specialists, earning praise for his extensive stylistic knowledge of different musical expressions. Francesco Cera applies his distinctive interpretative approach not only to historical keyboard instruments, but also to baroque… Continue Reading
Bob van Asperen
Bob van Asperen is Professor of Harpsichord at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He plays since many years recitals world wide and recorded more than 60 Solo CDs. These include first of all works by J.S. Bach: his Harpsichord Concertos, Welltempered-Clavier, Toccatas, Goldberg Variations, Two and Three Part Inventions, English Suites and Van Asperen’s transcriptions of… Continue Reading
Elisabeth Joyé
The French harpsichordist and teacher, Elisabeth Joyé, first studied with Huguette Dreyfus in Paris and then with Bob van Asperen in The Hague, with Jos van Immersel in Antwerp and finally in Amsterdam with Gustav Leonhardt, whose approach of the keyboard influenced her own art of touching the instrument very deeply. Elisabeth Joyé performs recitals… Continue Reading
Christophe Rousset
During his youth in Aix-en-Provence, Christophe Rousset developed a passion for the Baroque aesthetic. At the age of thirteen he decided not to study archaeology but to satisfy his keen interest in the discovery of the past through music instead, by taking up the harpsichord. That took him to the Schola Cantorum in Paris, where… Continue Reading