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Published: 11 April 2013
Richard Egarr today signed a three-year contract as Principal Guest Conductor of the Residentie Orkest in The Hague, starting in September 2013.Egarr will conduct at least three productions each season. The appointment is a milestone for the Residentie Orkest in its ambition to further explore eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. This tradition was begun back in the 1970s, when the orchestra began working with guest...
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Published: 28 February 2013
On 15 and 17 March, Richard Egarr directs the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston in a performance of Mozart’s Masonic Funeral Music as well as his Clarinet Concerto in A and Beethoven’s Symphony No.7.During this same trip, Egarr also returns to the Juilliard School of Music to work with their period ensemble and give keyboard, vocal and chamber music master-classes. Back in Europe, Egarr conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a programme of...
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Published: 07 January 2013
Following his blog for Gramophone Magazine about Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812), Richard Egarr indulges his passion for the music of this rarely performed Czech pianist/composer when he performs his Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 49 with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra on 17, 18 and 19 January. The concert will also feature Beethoven’s Prometheus Overture and Schubert’s Symphony No. 6.
Then on 31 January at West Road, Cambridge and on 2...
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Published: 30 November 2012
Richard Egarr will tour a programme of works by Vivaldi this December with the Academy of Ancient Music. Egarr and the group will travel first to Paris to perform on 5 December, then to Edinburgh on 7 December and finally to Amsterdam to perform at the Concertgebouw on 12 December.
Egarr will also be presenting a harpsichord recital of several of Bach’s English Suites in a smaller hall with the Concertgebouw.
His latest release for Harmonia...
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Published: 05 November 2012
Last month saw Richard Egarr make his debut with the Australian Chamber Orchestra directing a series of concerts of Baroque music from the harpsichord as well as performing Mozart’s Piano concerto No.12 on the fortepiano. Within the space of a week, Egarr and the ACO travelled to Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth, Sydney and Wollongong presenting a programme featuring sonatas by Corelli, Castello, Biber, Vivaldi, Handel and...
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Published: 04 October 2012
This October Richard Egarr tours with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Starting from 6 October, they will perform 11 concerts including dates in Sydney, Melbourne and one in Adelaide which will be broadcast live on ABC Classic FM. The programme includes works by Corelli and Handel.Today The Australian published an interview with Egarr discussing the tour, which can be read here.Following on from this, Egarr stops off in Seoul to work with the...
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Published: 03 September 2012
Richard Egarr played several of Handel’s harpsichord suites to a privileged audience in the intimate and atmospheric surroundings of Handel House in London – in the very room where Handel composed many of his most famous works, and himself played chamber music to friends. Then he went to Potton Hall in Suffolk to record the complete set for Harmonia Mundi.Later this month Egarr opens the Academy of Ancient Music’s seasons at the Wigmore Hall and...
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Published: 27 June 2012
Richard Egarr comes to the end of his European tour with the Academy of Ancient Music, conducting a triumphant Handel programme at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw on 3 July and at the Grafenegg Festival on 4 August.
Their performance of the same programme last month at Symphony Hall garnered critical acclaim:
"Particularly impressive were the string players, who used virtually no vibrato but sensitive bowing to produce notes that blossomed and...
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Published: 24 May 2012
Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music will perform Handel’s Water Music on the River Thames as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pageant on Sunday 3 June.
The AAM will be on the second of ten music barges in the procession (which starts at 2.30pm) of up to a thousand boats.
The Orchestra produced a film about preparations for the day:
The AAM's celebratory Handel concert from Birmingham Symphony Hall on Saturday 2 June will...
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Published: 10 May 2012
We are delighted to announce that Richard Egarr has renewed his contract as AAM Music Director until August 2017.
Future plans at the Barbican, where the AAM is Associate Ensemble from September 2012, include performances of Handel's royal music, JS Bach's St John Passion and a major cycle of Monteverdi operas.
Egarr succeeded AAM founder Christopher Hogwood as Music Director in 2006. Since then he has led the AAM from strength to strength,...
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