Jonathan Manson pursues a varied international career as a performer on both cello and viola da gamba. He was born in Edinburgh and received his formative training under the direction of Jane Cowan, later going on to study with Steven Doane at the Eastman School of Music in New York. A growing fascination for early music led him to Holland, where he studied viola da gamba with Wieland Kuijken in The Hague. While still a student, he became a founding member of the viol quartet Phantasm, which has since toured worldwide and earned several record prizes, including a Gramophone Award in 1997 and a nomination for Record of the Year in 2004 (Gibbons Consorts for Viols is also available on the Avie label). In 1999, he was appointed principal cellist of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, with whom he has since performed and recorded more than 150 Bach cantatas. He has also appeared as guest principal with many of Europe’s leading early music ensembles (including the Academy of Ancient Music, the English Concert, Gabrieli Players, English Baroque Soloists, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment), as a chamber music partner in repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to the Romantic, and as viola da gamba soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic. Jonathan Manson may be heard on over 60 recordings, including a critically acclaimed disk of Rameau's Pièces de clavecin en concert with Trevor Pinnock and Rachel Podger (Channel Classics), and Vivaldi’s Concerto for two cellos with Yo-Yo Ma (Sony Classics). He is also active as a teacher, and has taught on courses in Germany, the Czech Republic, America, Portugal and Iceland, as well as closer to home, at the University of Oxford. Jonathan makes his home near London, where he is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music. ........................ Trevor Pinnock is known worldwide as harpsichordist, conductor and chamber musician. A pioneer in the performance of baroque and classical music on period instruments, he founded the English Concert in 1972 directing it until 2003 when he passed on this role to the violinist Andrew Manze. Pinnock’s recent work has excited a great deal of interest. As harpsichordist he has appeared in Europe, Russia and the Far East. New recordings include Rameau Pièces de Clavecin on the spectacular Goermans/Taskin in the University of Edinburgh’s Raymond Russell Collection (AVIE 2056). As a conductor Pinnock’s performances of Handel’s Rinaldo with Opera Australia in Summer 2005 won the highest accolades of critics and public. During the 2005/2006 season he returned to the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Salzburg Camerata to lead them in tours of contrasted repertoire. He also returned to the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen for a televised concert with Renée Fleming. Symphonic concerts include appearances with the Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, City of Birmingham Symphony and Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestras. Pinnock celebrated Mozart’s birthday in 2006 with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and pianist Maria João Pires. Mozart also featured in a programme with Abbado’s newly founded Orchestra Mozart Bologna and features in concerts at the Salzburg and Feldkirch festivals. Further projects with period instruments include Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Handel Festival Halle and a Haydn/Handel programme at the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt. During the 2006/2007 season Pinnock marks his 60th birthday with tours and recording of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. For this project he has formed the European Brandenburg Ensemble with musicians from England, Italy and Germany. In a recent educational initiative, Pinnock coaches and leads public concerts with students from the Royal Academy of Music, London. Trevor Pinnock received a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 1992. http://www.imeem.com/groups/x3bBvF8r,jonathan_manson_trevor_pinnock/ Delta 0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss AVIE Records AVIE Records http://www.imeem.com/groups/x3bBvF8r/music/q2T9VxT8/jonathan_manson_trevor_pinnock_sonata_in_g_major_bwv_1027/ Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:59:02 -0000 <div><a href="http://www.imeem.com/groups/x3bBvF8r/music/q2T9VxT8/jonathan_manson_trevor_pinnock_sonata_in_g_major_bwv_1027/"><img border="0" src="http://icons-p1.imeem.com/q2T9VxT8.jpg" title="Click to play this song"/></a></div> 937g227vV7