Laurence Cummings
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Laurence Cummings, MA (Oxon), ARCM, FRCO, HonRAM is a harpsichordist, organist, and conductor. He is Head of Historical Performance at the Royal Academy of Music (since 1997), Musical Director of the London Handel Orchestra and 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.
Cummings was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and the Royal College of Music and he has studied with Jill Severs.
Particularly important achievements to date include making the first recording of Handel’s newly-discovered Gloria with soloist Emma Kirkby and the Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra, and recordings of the keyboard works of Louis and François Couperin.
He has performed with ensembles including He has appeared with ensembles including Les Arts Florissants, English National Opera, English Touring Opera, the Gabrieli Consort, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opera Theatre Company, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, The Sixteen, and Streetwise Opera.
[edit] Sources and further information
- Goldberg: the early-music portal
- Royal Academy of Music
- Handel and Haydn Society
- Atma Classique
- Kirk McElhearn, Review of Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord BWV 1027-1029 by Alison Crum (Viola da Gamba) and Laurence Cummings (Harpsichord) (Signum, 1999) (30 June 2001)
- Colin Clarke, Review of Handel's Semele, conducted by Laurence Cummings, 18 November 2004
- Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: selection of reviews, including Orfeo (English National Opera, 15-28 April 2006)
- Caroline Kellett Fraysse, Review of Orfeo (English National Opera, 15-28 April 2006)
- Review of Orfeo (English National Opera, 15-28 April 2006) from The Stage
Categories: Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford | Academics of the Royal Academy of Music | Alumni of the University of London | Baroque music | Early music | Early music performers | English musicians | Harpsichordists | English organists | Classical organists | English conductors | Living people | Date of birth missing | Place of birth missing
