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BERNARD
BRAUCHLI EARLY KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS |
Since his first clavichord performance in Fribourg (Switzerland)
in 1972, Bernard Brauchli has entirely devoted himself to the performance,
study and revival of early keyboard instruments. He has travelled extensively
with his instruments in the United States, Canada and Europe, concertising,
lecturing and introducing audiences to early keyboard instruments and
historical performance practises.
Major appearances have included the Boston Early Music
Festival, the Shrine to Music Concert Series (South Dakota), the Festivals of
Santander and San Sebastian (Spain), the Festival
do Algarve, (Portugal), the Salzburg Festival and the Internationale Musikwochen in Millstadt (Austria), the Festival of
Valère (Switzerland), the Corso
Internazionale di Musica Antica in Urbino and the Festival dei Saraceni in Pamparato (Italy). He has worked with
national television and broadcasting stations in many countries including WGBH
National Public Radio Network in Boston, France-Culture,
Radio Nacional y Televisión Española,
Radio Nacional y Televisión de Venezuela, Radio Difusão Portuguesa and Radio
Suisse Romande. Bernard Brauchli has made six record albums and ten compact
discs (for Titanic Records, EMI, Stradivarius, MAM) on historical instruments
and copies.
Continual research has led Bernard Brauchli to publish
numerous articles on both sides of the Atlantic and his book, The Clavichord
was published by Cambridge University Press in 1998, for which he received the
Nicholas Bessarabof Prize from the American Musical Instrument Society in 1999.
In 1983 he was awarded the Julius Adams Stratton Prize for Cultural
Achievement.
From 1978 to 1982 Bernard Brauchli taught in the series
of early music courses at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and from 1983 to
1992 at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, a position he
relinquished to move back to Europe. His pedagogical interests continue, most
notably with the Corsi di Musica Antica a
Magnano which he founded in 1987. The International Centre for
Clavichord Studies (ICCS) is another branch of Musica Antica a Magnano,
established in 1996 by Bernard Brauchli and Christopher Hogwood, after the
success of the two first International Symposia on the Clavichord held in 1993
and 1995 in Magnano.
Bernard Brauchli is an honorary
lifetime member of the Midwestern Historical Keyboard Society and a member of
the Clavichord Genootschap in
Holland. He is also a member of the artistic committee of the Festival International de l’Orgue Ancien de
Valère (Switzerland), music director emeritus of the Cambridge Society for
Early Music (Boston), for which he served as president for many years and
founded the series Chamber Music by
Candlelight. He is the founder and director of the Festival Musica Antica a Magnano, and current president of the
Swiss Clavichord Society which he founded in 1995.
In 2004 he received the first
Award of the British Clavichord Society.
