Frances Conover Fitch

Harpsichordist and organist Frances Conover Fitch initial studied harpsichord with Igor Kipnis even though at Bard University; later she finished organ research with Yuko Hayashi and harpsichord with John Gibbons at the brand new Britain Conservatory of Music prior to going to Holland to help expand her harpsichord research with Gustav Leonhardt and Veronika Hampe. Fitch spent a great deal of the past due ’70s and early ’80s in European countries, where she trained in the Schola Cantorum Basilensis and co-founded the first music ensemble Concerto Castello. A documenting by Concerto Castello gained Fitch an honorable point out in the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis competition kept in Berlin in 1983, but also that same 12 months Concerto Castello split up. Returning to america, Fitch began a dynamic free-lance career, using early music organizations like the the Boston Camerata as well as the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum taking part in main music festivals, such as for example Aston Magna and Tanglewood. Fitch trained at her alma mater, the brand new Britain Conservatory of Music, for some from the 1990s. Fitch happens to be chair of the first music department in the Longy College of Music in Cambridge, MA, and shows at Tufts University or college, although nowadays Fitch is usually most often noticed in concert like a soloist. Fitch is usually noted on her behalf sensitivity and user-friendly strengths like a continuo participant, and beyond her many recordings with Boston Camerata for Erato and non-esuch, Fitch has documented for Wildboar, Titanic, Koch, EMI Reflexe, and Centaur, furthermore to producing many radio recordings while in European countries.