Laurence Cummings
Laurence Cummings (born 1968, Birmingham), MA (Oxon), ARCM, FRCO, HonRAM is a British harpsichordist, organist, and conductor. Cummings was educated at Solihull School, Christ Church, Oxford and the Royal College of Music. His teachers have included Jill Severs.
Cummings is Head of Historical Performance at the Royal Academy of Music (since 1997), Musical Director of the London Handel Orchestra and the London Handel Festival (since 1999), Musical Director of the Tilford Bach Society, a founding member of the London Handel Players, and a Trustee of the Handel House Museum. In September 2011, he became the artistic director of the Göttingen International Handel Festival.[1]
Cummings has recorded commercially as both an instrumentalist and a conductor[2]. His recordings as a conductor have included the first recording of Handel’s newly-discovered Gloria with soloist Emma Kirkby and the Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra. He has also made recordings of keyboard works of Louis and François Couperin, and Handel.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Isabel Trzeciok (2011-06-03). "21 Jahre Nicholas McGegans Leitung". Göttinger Tageblatt. http://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Regionale-Kultur/21-Jahre-Nicholas-McGegans-Leitung. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
- ^ Richard Wigmore (2007-01-06). "Classical CDs of the week: Grieg, Mendelssohn, Handel and more...". Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/3662296/Classical-CDs-of-the-week-Grieg-Mendelssohn-Handel-and-more....html. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
- ^ Nicholas Kenyon (2010-04-18). "Handel: Eight Great Harpsichord Suites; Handel, Purcell, Haydn: Suites and Sonatas". The Observer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/18/handel-laurence-cummings-trevor-pinnock. Retrieved 2011-06-12.
[edit] External links
- Rayfield Allied: agency biography of Laurence Cummings
- Goldberg Magazine: Laurence Cummings
- Royal Academy of Music: Laurence Cummings
- Handel and Haydn Society: Laurence Cummings
- Atma Classique: Laurence Cummings
| Preceded by Nicholas McGegan |
Artistic Director, Göttingen International Handel Festival 2011–present |
Succeeded by incumbent |
- 1968 births
- English harpsichordists
- English classical organists
- English conductors (music)
- Academics of the Royal Academy of Music
- Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
- Alumni of the Royal College of Music
- Living people
- Honorary Members of the Royal Academy of Music
- British performers of early music
- Fellows of the Royal College of Organists
