The Valletta International Baroque Festival presents two concerts today in its line-up. A lunchtime concert titled The Harmonius Blacksmith is taking place at the National Library at 12.30pm. The programme features music by Handel, Bach, Rameau and Duphly and features Jory Vinikour on the harpsichord. Vinikour is recognised as one of the outstanding harpsichordists of his generation. Born in Chicago, he went to Paris on a Fulbright scholarship to study with Huguette Dreyfus and Kenneth Gilbert. First Prizes in the International Harpsichord Competitions of Warsaw (1993) and the Prague Spring Festival (1994) brought him to the public's attention, and he has since appeared in festivals and concert series, and is also a soloist with major orchestras worldwide. He has appeared as conductor/ harpsichordist with the Juilliard 415 Baroque orchestra at Carnegie Hall and has collaborated with many of the most prominent singers of today, notably Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and Rolando Villazon. His solo recordings have been widely praised in the international press with his recording of the complete works of Jean-Philippe Rameau (Sono Luminus, 2012) nominated for a Grammy...
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