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Musicians who play the harpsichord are known as harpsichordists. This list includes post 19th-century harpsichordists. This list includes post 19th-century harpsichordists. Notable earlier harpsichordists mostly appear on the list of Baroque composers .
Howard Beach (born 10 December 1966) is a British harpsichord player and previously a member of baroque group Red Priest.. Howard has performed and recorded extensively on both harpsichord and piano as a continuo player and concerto soloist.
Colin Tilney in 2017. Colin Tilney (31 October 1933 – 17 December 2024) was a British (later Canadian) harpsichordist, fortepianist and teacher.. He is well known for his historically-informed approach to performance practice, performing on original or copied instruments, largely using contemporary scores.
Julian Perkins is a British conductor and keyboard player (harpsichord, fortepiano and clavichord). [1] Shortlisted for the Gramophone Award in 2021, he is Artistic Director of the Portland Baroque Orchestra in the US. He lives in London, England and is also Founder Director of the early music ensemble Sounds Baroque and Artistic Director of ...
In 1961, Dyson returned to the Royal College of Music to teach, [1] and became professor of both harpsichord and piano three years later. [2] She also took up a lectureship in the history of early keyboard instruments. [4] Some of her students included Carol Cooper, [5] Penny Cave, Melvyn Tan, Robert Woolley and Sophie Yates among others.
There had been a few harpsichord players in Britain before the war, such as Violet Gordon-Woodhouse and members of the Dolmetsch family, but the instrument was established in Britain in the two decades following 1945 by three main players: George Malcolm, Thurston Dart and Millicent herself.
Gilbert Rowland (born 1946 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish harpsichordist.His father was second in command to the Viceroy of India during the days of the British Raj.He studied at the Royal College of Music, under Millicent Silver, and made his debut while still a student at Fenton House in Britain.
George Malcolm. George John Malcolm CBE KSG (28 February 1917 – 10 October 1997) was an English pianist, organist, composer, harpsichordist, and conductor.. Malcolm's first instrument was the piano, and his first teacher was a nun who recognised his talent and recommended him to the Royal College of Music at the age of seven, where he studied under Kathleen McQuitty FRCM until he was 19.