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Richard Egarr director & harpsichord Glyndebourne to the Beijing Concert Hall to Carnegie Hall. On top of a busy schedule of concerts worldwide with the Academy of Ancient Music, he has recently collaborated with the Residentie Orchestra of the Hague, the Brabant Orchestra, the Flemish Radio Orchestra and Choir, the Netherlands Bach Society and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Richard has given innumerable solo performances around Europe, Japan and the USA. Recent USA tours have included JS Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and Goldberg Variations. As an orchestral soloist he has appeared with the AAM, the English Concert, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Orchestra of the 18th Century, the Dutch Radio Chamber Orchestra and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble.
Richard Egarr, acclaimed Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music, is one of the most versatile musicians performing today. He has worked with all types of keyboards, performing repertoire ranging from 15th-century organ music to Berg and Maxwell Davies on modern piano. He is in great demand as a soloist and a chamber musician as well as a conductor. Richard enjoyed his musical training as a choirboy at York Minster, at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, and as organ scholar at Clare College, Cambridge. His studies with Gustav and Marie Leonhardt further inspired his work in the field of historically-informed performance. As a conductor, Egarr has directed repertoire ranging from JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion to John Tavener’s Ikon of Light. Numerous opera, oratorio and orchestral performances have taken him to venues ranging from
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In chamber music, Richard forms an “unequalled duo for violin and keyboard” (Gramophone) with violinist Andrew Manze, performing music from the Stylus Phantasticus to Mozart and Schubert. They have toured extensively throughout Europe, North America and the Far East. Egarr records exclusively for Harmonia Mundi USA. His solo output includes works by Frescobaldi, Gibbons, Couperin, Purcell, Froberger, Mozart and JS Bach. His awardwinning recordings with Manze include sonatas by Bach, Biber, Rebel, Pandolfi, Corelli, Handel, Mozart and Schubert. With the Academy of Ancient Music he has recorded JS Bach’s harpsichord concertos, JS Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos, and a set of Handel discs including the Concerti Grossi Op.3, the Organ Concertos Op.4 and 7 and the Sonatas Opp.1, 2 and 5.