Julian Perkins
Julian Perkins is a vital presence on the early music scene, equally well known as a conductor and keyboard player. He also sings, teaches, and is a noted researcher.
Perkins was born in London. He was the youngest of four siblings, taking up keyboards, violin, and recorder to keep up with his brothers and sisters, and becoming frustrated that his legs were not long enough to allow him to play the organ. As a child, he sang in a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 ("Symphony of a Thousand") under conductor Klaus Tennstedt, recalling to The Cross-Eyed Pianist site: "A grumpy old man, in poor health, flailing about in a seemingly haphazard manner on the podium, but I have never, ever heard an orchestra or choir sound like they did with him -- and this had nothing to do with his relative fame." Perkins studied at King's College, Cambridge, and went on for further studies as harpsichordist and conductor at the Schola Cantorum in Basel and the Royal Academy of Music in London. Perkins founded the early music ensemble Sounds Baroque in 2005 and has since served as its director. The group has attracted top-notch soloists, including Simon Callow, Dame Emma Kirkby, and Mark Padmore. He is a frequent guest conductor with the Southbank Sinfonia and has conducted opera productions at the Buxton International Festival, Cambridge Handel Opera (where he has served as artistic director), Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and other venues. As a keyboardist, he has played concertos with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Orchestra of the Sixteen, and the Royal Northern Sinfonia, among other groups. As well as harpsichord, Perkins plays the fortepiano and the clavichord; he has often given solo recitals on the latter instrument at festivals.
Perkins has made clavichord recordings of 20th century music (Herbert Howells and Stephen Dodgson) as well as Bach's French Suites, BWV 812-817. He has also recorded for Avie and Resonus Classics as the conductor of Sounds Baroque. Perkins has performed and recorded piano duo music with Emma Abbate, and he joined violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved for a recording of three Schubert sonatas on historically appropriate instruments in 2020. Perkins teaches harpsichord at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and he has given master classes at Britain's Royal Opera Studio. His research articles have been published by both the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses.
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17 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Handel's Attick: Music for Solo Clavichord
Classique - Paru chez Deux-Elles Limited le 23 juin 2023
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Mozart: Piano Duets, Vol. 2
Classique - Paru chez Resonus Classics le 30 mars 2018
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From Handel's Home: The Keyboards of Handel Hendrix House
Classique - Paru chez Delphian Records le 9 févr. 2024
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Worgan: Complete Harpsichord Music
Julian Perkins, Timothy Roberts
Classique - Paru chez Toccata Classics le 5 mars 2021
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Mozart: Piano Duets, Vol. 1
Classique - Paru chez Resonus Classics le 5 août 2016
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Daniel Purcell: The Judgment of Paris
Opéra - Paru chez Resonus Classics le 3 mars 2014
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Schubert: Violin Sonatas
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Julian Perkins
Musique de chambre - Paru chez Athene le 12 juin 2020
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Fantasia in D Minor, TWV 33:2: I. Presto
Classique - Paru chez Delphian Records le 2 févr. 2024
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Weber: Complete Keyboard Duets
Classique - Paru chez Deux-Elles Limited le 10 juil. 2020
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Howells: Music for Clavichord
Classique - Paru chez ASC Records le 3 nov. 2017
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Tournament for Twenty Fingers
Classique - Paru chez BIS le 1 juil. 2022
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Smith & Handel
Classique - Paru chez Chandos le 1 mai 2015
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Handel: Overture to Riccardo Primo - Smith: Six Suites of Lessons for the Harpsichord
Classique - Paru chez Chandos le 1 mai 2015
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Summer Dreams: American Piano Duets by Beach, MacDowell & Barber
Classique - Paru chez Brilliant Classics le 26 févr. 2024
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Nares: Eight Setts of Lessons for the Harpsichord - Handel: Suite in D Minor
Classique - Paru chez Avie Records le 22 avr. 2008
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Rodelinda: Overture HWV 456 No. 4: III. Menuet
Classique - Paru chez Delphian Records le 19 janv. 2024
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A Voluntary or a Flight of Angels in C Major, HWV 600
Classique - Paru chez Delphian Records le 26 janv. 2024
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo