“Carole Cerasi has always seemed to be one of the very finest harpsichordists alive today, and this…fully confirms my earlier impression."
Early Music Review, October 2007
After an unusual upbringing — born in Sweden of Sephardi/Turkish origins, with French as her first language — Carole Cerasi has been based in London since 1982. She divides her time between recordings and concerts throughout the world. Recent performances have included recitals at the Harrogate, Warwick, Brno, Dieppe, Tallinn and Ludwigsburg festivals, Potsdam and the Musikinstrumenten-Museum in Berlin; as well as in France (La Roque d’Anthéron, Sablé, Ambronay), Belgium, Germany, Israel, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Colombia and Japan. Carole has recently made her Canadian and US debuts, including concerts in Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles, San Diego and Berkeley. Last summer’s recitals included the Halle Handel Festival, Gloucester Three Choirs Festival, where she played Bach’s Goldberg Variations and the Lufthansa Baroque Festival in London, also broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Early Music Show. Concerts during 2008 include the Bath International Music Festival, the Cobbe Collection of Early Keyboards at Hatchlands, and the Belfast Festival at Queen’s.
With her group Ensemble Türk Carole explores the classical fortepiano chamber repertoire; they have given concerts in the UK (including the Wigmore Hall in London), Zürich Tonhalle, in France and for the BBC.
Carole Cerasi is professor of harpsichord and fortepiano at the Royal Academy of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and the Yehudi Menuhin School. Her first solo CD of Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre received unanimous praise from the press and won the Gramophone Award; discs of sonatas by C.P.E. Bach and works by Thomas Tomkins were received to great critical acclaim, including the Diapason d'Or de l'Année. Her next CD, J.S. Bach and the Möller Manuscript, was released in 2002, winning a further Diapason d’Or de l'Année and coming second in the Gramophone Baroque Instrumental Awards. This was followed by music by one of Scarlatti's most colourful and quirky contemporaries, Manuel Blasco de Nebra; most recently she has released, again for Metronome, her recording of Bach’s English Suites.
www.carolecerasi.com
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Reviews
“…une personalité majeure du monde du clavecin”
Diapason, 2002
“Ein wirklich geeindruckender Abend, der auf dem Heimweg nachklingt.”
Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten, 2005
“Carole Cerasi’s exquisite recital”
The Independent, May 2007
“Cerasi expertly showed off the virtuosic mastery of the Spanish idiom”
Early Music Today, June/July 2007
Discography
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre – Complete Harpsichord Suites METCD 1026
- winner of the 1999 Baroque Instrumental Gramophone Award
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Keyboard Sonatas METCD 1032
- Diapason d’Or de l’Année 2001
Thomas Tomkins – Music for Harpsichord and Virginals METCD 1049
- Diapason d’Or de l’Année 2002
J S Bach and the Möller Manuscript METCD 1055
- Runner-up Gramophone Award 2003, - Diapason d’Or de l’Année 2003
Manuel Blasco de Nebra – Sonatas and Pastorelas METCD 1064
J S Bach: English Suites METCD 1078
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