| The Artist |
| Frances Conover Fitch directs the music
program at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Lynn/Greater Lynn in
Swampscott, Massaachusetts. As harpsichordist and organist, she has toured
extensively in North America and Europe, and has recorded for the national
radio services of Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands and France, as well
as for the BBC and NPR. Her ensemble, Concerto Castello, won critical
acclaim as well as an Honorable Mention in the Deutsche Schallplatten Preis
of 1983. Sought out as a particularly sensitive and inventive continuo
player, she has worked with such ensembles as Spiritus Collective, Cantata
Singers, Emmanuel Music, Aston Magna, Boston Cecelia Society, The Handel and
Haydn Society, Concerto Palatino, the Boston Camerata and the
Harvard–Radcliffe Collegium Musicum. Ms. Fitch has presented solo recitals at the Smithsonian Institution, the American Church in Paris and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and has participated in major music festivals, including the Festival d’Art Lyrique/Aix-en-Provence, Pepsico SummerFare, Tanglewood Music Center, Boston Early Music Festival, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Castle Hill Festival and the Festival de Musica Antigua in Mexico City, where she also gave master classes at the National Conservatory. She has recorded on the EMI-Reflexe, Titanic, Harmonia Mundi, Koch International and Wild Boar labels, including her solo CD, O Ye Tender Babes: English Virginal Music (Wild Boar) and a recent two–CD release entitled Protégée of the Sun King (Centaur), that features the music of Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre. Formerly on the faculties of Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and Wellesley College, she now teaches at Tufts University, Medford, Mass., and Longy School of Music, Cambridge, where she is Chair of the Early Music Department and instructor in harpsichord, organ, chamber music, figured bass improvisation and bibliographic research. Ms. Fitch has degrees from Bard College and New England Conservatory, and did post-graduate work at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amserdam, where she studied with Gustav Leonhardt and Veronika Hampe. Her playing has been praised as “delightful”, “perceptive”, “alluring”, “spirited”, “stylish” and “spectacular”, and noted for its “precision and delicacy of wit”. |
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