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Christopher Stembridge - musician and musicologist - early music
Description
Christopher Stembridge studied languages at Cambridge University and musicology at Oxford University. For many years he was a lecturer at University College Cork (Ireland). He now lives together with his wife, the fortepianist Ella Sevskaya, in Italy where he teaches organ and harpsichord at the School of Church Music in Brescia and gives regular master-classes on historic organs in Arezzo and Brescia. For some years he taught the organ class at the Accademia Chigiana, Siena. He travels widely giving lectures, recitals and seminars in Europe and the U.S.
His special field of interest is Italian keyboard music of the renaissance and early baroque. He has published various papers and edited music by de Macque, Mayone and Frescobaldi. (He is currently involved with the new Bärenreiter editions of Byrd and Frescobaldi organ and keyboard music.) He wrote the chapter on Italy for the Cambridge Companion to the Organ. He also plays the clavichord and the cembalo cromatico, a harpsichord with 19 notes to the octave - a reconstruction of an instrument that was widely used in late 16th-century Italy.
His recordings on historic instruments include organ and harpsichord works of Mayone (2 CDs, EMI / deutsche harmonia mundi), organ works by A.&G.Gabrieli on Arezzo Cathedral organ (1534) (Sarx), Consonanze stravaganti, an anthology of Neapolitan keyboard music of c.1600 played on the cembalo cromatico and on a 16th-century organ in Florence (Ars Musici) and, most recently, Wondrous Machine, an anthology of English music from 16th through 18th centuries recorded on an 18th-century organ in Venice (Quilisma)
Contact
- Nicholson Proud Ltd
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- Cambridge Cambridgeshire
- GB CB1 1AH
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- +44.4411111
