Oberlin College and Conservatory

Guest Recital: Francesco Cera, harpsichord

Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 6:30pm to 7:30pm

Fairchild Chapel, Bosworth Hall
50 West Lorain Street, Oberlin, OH 44074

A guest recital performed by Francesco Cera, harpsichord. 

 

Works by: Giovanni Maria Trabaci; Girolamo Frescobaldi; Bernardo Pasquini; Domenico Scarlatti.

 

Francesco Cera is considered one of Italy’s leading early music specialists.  He is greatly admired both as a performer, and for his extensive knowledge of musical styles and expressions.  As a soloist, he has performed in important international festivals (Bologna Festival, Musica e Poesia in San Maurizio in Milan, Flanders Festival in Gent and Bruges, Bach Tage Berlin, Saint Michael en Thierrache, Le Gouts Reunis Lausanne, Musica Transalpina in London), and on many historical organs throughout Europe. 

         Francesco Cera applies his distinctive interpretative approach not only to early keyboard music, but also to Baroque vocal and instrumental music.  From 1991 to 1994, he was a member of the ensemble Il Giardino Armonico

         Francesco Cera applies his distinctive interpretative approach not only to early keyboard instruments, but also to Baroque vocal and instrumental music. Cera has been a member of the ensembles Il Giardino Armonico and I Barocchisti, and is the director of Ensemble Arte Music with whom he performs vocal Italian repertoire spanning the period from Gesualdo’s madrigals to eighteenth century cantatas.

         Cera’s recording of the complete works of Michelangelo Rossi, Tarquinio Merula, Bernardo Storace, and Antonio Valente (Tactus), was highly acclaimed by several important music magazines.  He has held master classes at prestigious music conservatories throughout Europe and the United States, and has been featured in broadcast interviews with Michael Barone on the radio program Pipe Dreams.  

         Cera was born in Bologna, Italy, where he studied under Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, and later with Gustav Leonhardt at the Amsterdam Conservatory.  Since 2001 he has been living in Rome where he was appointed Honorary Inspector of Early Organs for the Lazio region. 

 

website: www.francescocera.it

         

Event Type

Master Class, Music

Departments

Administrative, Concert Production, Conservatory of Music

Cost

Free Admission

Contact E-mail Address

conpro@oberlin.edu

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