Annette Richards and David Yearsley: Organ Recital

Date and Time
Wednesday April 10th, 2019
7:30 - 8:30pm
Location
Stanford Memorial Church
About this event

Husband and wife organists David Yearsley and Annette Richards from Cornell University present a recital of music by Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons.

Annette Richards was educated at Oxford University and Stanford University, where she received her Ph.D. in music history. She enjoys an active career as performer, scholar, and teacher. Laureate of international organ competitions at Dublin and Bruges, she gives concerts frequently in North America and Europe. She has recorded the Complete Works of Melchior Schildt (on the Loft label) played on the historic organ at Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark; and music from the library of Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia, on the new Schnitger-style organ at Cornell (also on Loft).

David Yearsley was educated at Harvard College and Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D. in music history. He is author of the widely-praised Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Bach’s Feet (Cambridge, 2012), and Sex, Death and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Among his honors as an organist are all major prizes at the Bruges Early Music Festival. He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin, a Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellow at the University of Gothenburg, and recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

Event Sponsor
Department of Music, Office for Religious Life
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