Silas Standage - harpsichord
Silas Standage has been active as a performer and compser from an early age.
He was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral, where he studied
organ with John Scott. After a number of appointments as a church
organist he was awarded organ scholarship at Trinity College,
Cambridge where he studied musicology. During this time he started to play
the harpsichord and directed performances of
Purcell's Rairy Queen for the university. He continued his
harpsichord studies with Jill Severs at the Guildhall School
of Music and Drama, London and with Frederick Haas atthe
Conservatoire Royal, Brussels.
In 1997-8 he was assistant musical
director of Kent Opera and in 1998-9 he was guest professor of
harpsichord at the DResdner Akademie fur Alte Musik. He now performs
with many of the leading Baroque orchestras and was a soloist and assistant
conductor for John Eliot Gardiner's
Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in 2000.
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