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  Trevor Pinnock (Conductor, Harpsichord) - Short Biography
Trevor Pinnock also pursued a distinguished career as a harpsichord virtuoso.
Trevor Pinnock was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 1992.
Trevor Pinnock is a member of an international group of musicians who, from the 1960’s onwards, have worked to establish the artistic criteria of "historically informed" performance practices, using original editions and modern research facilities to recreate the techniques and performing styles is use when the music was written.
www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Pinnock-Trevor.htm   (528 words)

  
  Radio National - The Music Show 16/07/2005
Trevor Pinnock: Well it’s a team effort, everything’s a team effort, and so sometimes I play with a role, and sometimes that will be covered by a lute or by the second harpsichord, or sometimes we’re playing all together.
Trevor Pinnock: Well because not all of them did, but for others, they found it very exciting indeed, and principally, I would guess, because some of the best singers were Italian, and they were Italian imports, and so they were seeing real stars.
Trevor Pinnock: Well basically it is a lighter sound, but the advantage of those old instruments is that you can play them absolutely to their maximum without the music getting thick and heavy.
www.abc.net.au /rn/music/mshow/s1458221.htm   (2085 words)

  
 Trevor Pinnock - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
Harpsichordist and conductor Trevor Pinnock is one of the leading figures on the international period-instrument scene, with numerous recordings to his credit both as a soloist and as leader of the English Concert, the period instrument group he founded.
One of Pinnock's areas of study was authentic performance style, which was being rediscovered by study of treatises on playing, ornamentation, and interpretation written during the relevant period.
Pinnock and others recognized that the sounds of these instruments differed, often in striking ways, from today¹s models and that an orchestra of these instruments was necessary to recapture the composers' intended sound.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,529380,00.html   (510 words)

  
 Trevor Pinnock - Autumn Thoughts
Pinnock occupies a special place in the world of chamber music, and his recordings with the English Concert have become the benchmark for their genre since the 1980s.
Pinnock handed over his baton to violinist Andrew Manze in 2003 in order to pursue his career as a harpsichord virtuoso as well as to conduct various international orchestras.
Trevor Pinnock: I was already familiar with the excellent work he'd done with his ensemble, particularly while I was conductor and artistic director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa between 1991 and 1996.
www.scena.org /lsm/sm10-1/Trevor-Pinnock-en.htm   (1925 words)

  
 classical music - andante - as much finesse as ever, with a wider range - trevor pinnock in a solo harpsichord recital
Pinnock emphasised its variety by imbuing the grace notes of its Sarabande with a delectably lazy rubato, and switching to the dry rattle of the harpsichord's buff stop to characterise the naughty cross-rhythm of the Tempo di Minuetto.
Here, Pinnock's bright precision in the filigree figuration of "Le rappel des oiseaux" for once justified the cliche "spine-tingling", while his drone-bassed "Musette" sounded as drugged with noonday heat as his rustic "Tambourin" was stampingly vigorous.
Trevor Pinnock at the Victoria and Albert Museum
www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25224   (639 words)

  
 Trevor Pinnock
Having received his education as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral and a scholar at the Royal College of Music, Trevor Pinnock formed The English Concert in 1973; since then, his lively and stylish interpretations with this ensemble have set new standards in the field of period performance.
Trevor Pinnock has appeared frequently as a guest conductor with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Boston, San Francisco and Detroit Symphony orchestras, the St Paul and Los Angeles Chamber orchestras and at the Tanglewood and Mostly Mozart festivals; he made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1988 with Handel's Giulio Cesare.
Trevor Pinnock first conducted the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa in 1985 and was their Artistic Director and Principal Conductor from 1991 to 1996.
www.concertartist.info /biog/PIN001.html   (449 words)

  
 Classical Music News:: The Classical Source News:: Trevor Pinnock plans 60th birthday celebrations in Sheffield :: ...
Trevor Pinnock has announced celebrations for his 60th birthday which will centre around The Six Brandenburg Concertos by J S Bach.
Trevor has invited a select group of period instrument musicians from England, France, Germany Italy and Spain to form the European Brandenburg Ensemble, which will record the works and tour internationally over an 18-month period from July 2006 to December 2007.
Trevor Pinnock is widely known for his pioneering performances of baroque and classical music.
www.classicalsource.com /db_control/db_news.php?id=559   (524 words)

  
 Trevor Pinnock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trevor Pinnock as seen in liner notes of Le Quattro Stagioni "The Four Seasons" recorded in 1982.
Trevor David Pinnock CBE (born December 16, 1946) is an English conductor and harpsichordist.
Trevor Pinnock and Maxim Vengerov toured together in 2000, with Vengerov taking up the baroque violin for the first time and Pinnock taking up the modern Steinway grand piano.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trevor_Pinnock   (1894 words)

  
 classical music - andante - passing the (authentic 18th-century) torch: andrew manze succeeds trevor pinnock as ...
Pinnock, who first came to prominence as a harpsichordist, wishes to pursue a solo career, explaining that "there are other things I want to develop — or rather come back to.
But Pinnock is not abandoning the orchestra he founded and directed for so many years, and he is justifiably proud of its great legacy of recordings.
Pinnock has done some Monteverdi in recent years, and Manze is also keen to investigate the 17th century: "The music isn't strictly orchestral, but there is also a good choir there with a good body of solo voices.
www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=16111   (2102 words)

  
 English Concert with Trevor Pinnock: Handel Opera
Trevor Pinnock is recognised as a leading personality in the direction of period-instrument performance and a harpsichord soloist of international reputation.
Having trained as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral and as a scholar at the Royal College of Music, Trevor Pinnock formed The English Concert in 1973; since then, his lively and stylish interpretations with this ensemble have set new standards in the field of period performance.
Trevor Pinnock has appeared frequently as a guest conductor with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Boston, San Francisco and Detroit Symphony orchestras, the St Paul and Los Angeles Chamber orchestras and at the Tanglewood and Mostly Mozart festivals, he became Principal conductor and artistic director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa.
www.magnatune.com /artists/english_concert   (461 words)

  
 Complete Harpsichord Concertos by Trevor Pinnock at jsbach.org
Trevor Pinnock is one of the musicians that I greatly admire.
Pinnock's performance is appropriately energetic in the fast movements and beautifully expressive in the slow movements.
Pinnock makes each concerto not remind the listener of the violin concerto upon which it is based, but rather makes the listener think of it as different piece of music.
www.jsbach.org /pinnockcompleteharpsichordconcertos.html   (790 words)

  
 Biography of Trevor Pinnock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Trevor Pinnock has a unique rapport with audiences the world over as director of The English Concert, as guest conductor of many of the world's leading orchestras and as a harpsichord soloist of international distinction.
The international orchestras with whom Trevor Pinncok has appeared recently include the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, NACO (Ottawa), Mozarteum Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie and the Vienna Philharmonic.
Trevor Pinnock will also be appearing throughout Europe in duo recitals with the violinist Maxim Vengerov.
www.englishconcert.co.uk /biogtp.htm   (148 words)

  
 Pinnock plays Bach with skill and sensitivity
TREVOR PINNOCK MARKS HIMSELF out not so much by his technical mastery of the harpsichord as by his ability to use his instrument to bring out the human side of the composers whose music he plays.
During several short talks in between works performed in his Jordan Hall recital, Pinnock spoke of the greatness of Bach, stressing the many facets of the composer's art.
Pinnock's nimble playing and bright sound quickly grabbed the attention, but his ability to sensitively accent each and every nuance was what took us deep into the complex and intense elements of the work.
www-tech.mit.edu /Issue/V110/N16/pinnoc.16a.html   (318 words)

  
 Trevor Pinnock: baroque harpsichord virtuoso
Trevor Pinnock received a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 1992.
Trevor Pinnock first encountered Rameau's music in a piano anthology of early keyboard music.
In 2002 Trevor Pinnock returned to the Pieces de Clavecin en Concert performing and recording them with the violinist Rachel Podger and basse de viole player Jonathan Manson.
magnatune.com /artists/pinnock   (1862 words)

  
 ICM - International Creative Management, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Trevor Pinnock is known worldwide as harpsichordist, conductor and chamber musician.
As a conductor Pinnock's performances of Handel's Rinaldo with Opera Australia in Summer 2005 won the highest accolades of critics and public.
Pinnock celebrates Mozart's brithday in 2006 with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and pianist Maria João Pires.
www.icmtalent.com /musperf/profiles/60207.html   (321 words)

  
 Trevor Pinnock: Rameau - Les Cyclopes
The harpsichord he uses on this album is by Goermans/Taskin from the Russell collection in Edinburgh, and it is one the best, most distinctive harpsichord sounds we've ever heard on a recording.
Trevor Pinnock has known these pieces for 30 years or more and after a lifetime devoted to baroque music, it would be hard to find anyone better at it.
The suite in A minor is outstanding, one of the finest works written for the harpsichord (listen especially to 'Les Trois Mains' and the 'Gavotte Et Doubles').
www.magnatune.com /artists/albums/pinnock-rameau   (467 words)

  
 PlaybillArts: News: Trevor Pinnock to Mark 60th Birthday With Brandenburg Tour
Trevor Pinnock will celebrate his 60th birthday with performances of Bach's six Brandenburg Concertos around the world over 18 months, the harpsichordist and conductor announced.
Pinnock has assembled a group of period-instrument players, dubbed the European Brandenburg Ensemble, for the tour.
Pinnock founded the English Concert in 1973 and led the group until 2003.
www.playbillarts.com /news/article/4539.html   (404 words)

  
 A. Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (Pinnock, the English Concert) (1982)
Pinnock, Trevor (conductor) -Standage, Simon (violino) - The English Concert - L'Estate - Adagio - Presto
Pinnock, Trevor (conductor) -Standage, Simon (violino) - The English Concert - L'Autunno - Allegro
Pinnock, Trevor (conductor) -Standage, Simon (violino) - The English Concert - L'Autunno - Adagio
home.speedfactory.net /direwolf/details/9670.html   (203 words)

  
 Juilliard | The Juilliard Journal Online
Internationally renowned Baroque music specialist, virtuoso harpsichordist, and founder of the English Concert, Trevor Pinnock comes to Juilliard to conduct the annual Jerome L. Greene Concert this March in Alice Tully Hall.
Maestro Pinnock enthusiastically discussed the challenges and subtleties of period performance with oboe student Toni Marie Marchioni.
Trevor Pinnock: I don't normally associate Juilliard with people playing and singing Handel, so I think this is an interesting challenge.
www.juilliard.edu /update/journal/j_articles825.html   (1102 words)

  
 Trevor P   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Trevor Pinnock was a member of the group "Natural Hii".
However, he has decided to wet our apetites by releasing a nice cover version of the song "Cherish" which was first released by the legendary group "Kool and the Gang".
Trevor will be going into the studios real soon so please stay tuned.
www.unsignedbandweb.com /music/bands/7726   (136 words)

  
 Six Partitas for Keyboard by Trevor Pinnock at jsbach.org
I was really happy when I found this new recording of The Six Partitas with one of my favourite baroque performers, Mr Pinnock.
The performance is of course excellent, as always by Mr Pinnock.
I consider Trevor Pinnock to be one of the premier interpreters of Bach.
www.math.uni.lodz.pl /~frydrych/www.jsbach.org/six.html   (270 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Ctos: Music: Antonio Vivaldi,Trevor Pinnock,English Concert,David Reichenberg,Simon Standage,Rachel ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
~ Antonio Vivaldi (Composer), Trevor Pinnock (Conductor, Performer), English Concert (Performer), David Reichenberg (Performer), Simon Standage (Performer), et al.
with English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, Simon Standage, Elizabeth Wilcock
Trevor Pinnock, directing from the harpsichord and organ, leads the English Concert (an all-star cast including Roy Goodman and Simon Standage, both of whom have graduated to the podium in recent years) in digital recordings from the late 80s.
www.amazon.ca /Ctos-Trevor-Pinnock/dp/B00005KK4Q   (1175 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Mozart: The Symphonies /Pinnock: Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Trevor Pinnock,English Concert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This is not so much a problem with performances of Mozart's chamber music however, as there are fewer instruments to crowd the scene, and each musician retains greater control over the sustainment of each note.
Unquestionably, these 'period' performances by Trevor Pinnock are the best renditions I have heard of Mozart's symphonies.
The English Concert Orchestra under Pinnock is known for its excellence, and here they have not let us down.
www.amazon.co.uk /Mozart-Symphonies-Pinnock-Trevor/dp/B000069KJ3   (658 words)

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