music for flute & strings on period instruments

David Gordon

David Gordon studied mathematics and logic before embarking on a career as jazz pianist, harpsichordist and composer. As harpsichordist, he plays with many of the leading baroque orchestras, including appearances at the BBC Proms, the Musikverein in Vienna, and Carnegie Hall, New York.  He has also performed with Andrew Manze, Nigel Kennedy, and leads the early music/jazz group Respectable Groove, whose most recent project is a version of Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas. His solo recitals usually include a large element of improvisation.  

 

As jazz pianist, he tours and records with his own international jazz trio, including festival appearances in the UK, Denmark and Portugal, as well as playing with violinist Christian Garrick and singer Jacqui Dankworth. He is also joint musical director of, and an explosive pianistic force in, the gypsy tango band Zum, who have toured Croatia, Finland, France, and the United States. As composer, his works appear on around 20 CDs, and he is regularly commissioned to write for various groups.  A firm advocate of the power of improvisation, he believes that improvising – in groups or alone – allows us access to parts of the human spirit other forms of music-making cannot reach.

 

Steven Devine

Conductor and keyboard player Steven Devine received his early musical training at Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester and read music at Oxford University. He is now in demand across the world and is at home in the fields of opera, large-scale concerts, chamber music and solo performances.

 

Since 2007 Steven has been the harpsichordist with London Baroque in addition to his position as Co-Principal keyboard player with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He is also the principal keyboard player for I Fagiolini, Apollo and Pan, The Classical Opera Company and performs regularly with many other groups around Europe. He has recorded over thirty discs with other artists and ensembles and made three solo recordings.

 

Ever since his schooldays, Steven has been associated with the Finchcocks Collection of historic keyboard instruments in Kent and in now Director of Education. He was appointed Professor of Fortepiano at Trinity College of Music in 2003.

 

Mark Baigent

Mark specialises in performing on period instruments. He regularly freelances with the Sixteen, the Scholars Baroque Ensemble, the Gabrieli Consort and the English Baroque Soloists. He has also given performances of the Mozart and Beethoven octets with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. In demand as a chamber musician and soloist, he has also toured extensively throughout Europe, America and the Far East, and has broadcast on Radio 3 and 4, Classic FM and appeared in the BBC’s docu-drama "Eroica."

The Galeazzi Ensemble is delighted to have the opportunity to work with other internationally acclaimed musicians, including David Gordon (harpsichord/fortepiano), Steven Devine (fortepiano/harpsichord) and Mark Baigent (classical oboe).