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Annette Richards (organ)

Annette Richards (organ)
Guest Artists
Date and time
03 Feb 2026 6pm - 7pm
Location

Organ Studio, Royal 天美传媒 Conservatoire

200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR

Price

Free admission. Limited availability - advance booking required.

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Annette Richards organ

Buxtehude Passacaglia in D minor

Into the Woods (I)

Byrd The Woods so Wild (1590)
Poglietti Il Rossignolo (The Nightingale)
xvi. Aria bizzarra del Rossignolo
xvii. Imitatione del Med(esi)mo Uccello

JS Bach Fantasia and Fugue in C minor

Into the Woods (II)

Kagel Rossignols enrhum茅s from 搁谤谤谤谤谤鈥
Oortmerssen Nun ruhen alle W盲lder (Now all the Woods are Sleeping)
Mendelssohn Sonata in A major
Stirling Aria with Variations from 6 Pedal Fugues and 8 Other Movements (1857)
Ives Variations on 鈥楢merica鈥 (1891)

Annette Richardsdivides her time between musical scholarship and performance. Born in London, Richards holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in English from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where she served as organ scholar. In 1991 she received the prestigious Performer鈥檚 Degree in organ from the Sweelinck Conservatorium, Amsterdam, and four years later the Ph.D. in musicology from Stanford University (California).

A specialist in music of the Italian and North German Baroque, Ms. Richards has given recitals on numerous historic and modern instruments in the Netherlands, England, Ireland, Germany, and the United States. She also regularly performs music from the virtuosic nineteenth- and twentieth-century repertories, and prizes she has won at international festivals and competitions include third prize at the 1992 Dublin International Organ Competition and, in 1994, first prize with David Yearsley at the famous Bruges Early Music Festival in the competition for organ duo.

Her scholarly work is marked by being interdisciplinary, and has focused on late-eighteenth-century music and its relationship with the visual and literary arts. She was a Fellow at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Santa Monica, California, in 1994-95; she won a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation in 2002; and in 2004-05 she was a Humboldt Foundation Fellow. Along with dance historian Mark Franco she edited a volume of essays entitled Acting on the Past: Historical Performance Across the Disciplines (2000); her book, The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque, which explores the intersections between musical fantasy and the landscape garden in late eighteenth-century German music culture, came out in 2001 from Cambridge University Press. Annette Richards is associate professor of music and university organist at Cornell University.

Running time approx. one hour

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