Frederick Renz

This acclaimed conductor, producer, and director of early music dramas and harpsichord performer noted for his scholarly research and his flawless, lucid, and expressive playing is mixed up in field of early music having a wide-ranging repertoire of music from your eleventh towards the eighteenth centuries. As an undergraduate at SUNY (Condition University or college of NY) at Fredonia, Renz received the college’s exclusive Concerto Competition, carrying out Bach’s Piano Concerto in D small. He gained his grasp of music level in the University or college of Indiana, where he analyzed harpsichord and performing and gained a performer’s certificate in harpsichord. He finished course work for any doctorate in performing with Willi Apel and Julius Herford. Renz graduated in 1962. Like a Fulbright Scholar, Renz analyzed harpsichord with eminent harpsichordist and scholar Gustav Leonhardt in the Amsterdam Conservatory in Holland. Renz was later on granted an honorary doctor of music level by SUNY. Renz was a key pad soloist using the legendary NY Pro Musica for six months, and founded the first Music Basis, Inc. when that ensemble disbanded in 1974. Renz proceeds to utilize the first Music Foundation’s renowned carrying out group the Outfit for Early Music, which is usually focused on music from the middle ages and Renaissance intervals, as well as the Grande Bande Orchestra of Initial Devices, which performs music from the Baroque and early Classical eras. Renz provides achieved popularity for his pioneering function in the genre of middle ages music-dramas that he has taken back to lifestyle from the analysis of first manuscripts. Renz received many commissions through the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, for whom he reconstructed The Play of Mary Magdalene, The Resurrection Play of Travels, The Bringing up of Lazarus/Transformation of St. Paul, and Sponsus: The Parable from the Smart and Foolish Virgins; the Spoleto Celebration, which received shows of Herod as well as the Innocents; as well as the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where Renz, as an artist-in-residence, staged his re-creations from the Play of St. Nicholas and Daniel as well as the Lions. Many of these functions require special executing techniques and exclusive instrumentations which were uncovered through Renz’s intensive and delicate musicological research. Being a critically acclaimed harpsichordist, Renz provides given many single recitals and provides made an appearance with orchestras and chamber groupings in NY. As an educator, he provides served as going to professor and creative advisor for the Fundacion del Estado em fun??o de la Orquesta Nacional Juvenil in Venezuela, the College or university of NEW YORK at Chapel Hill, the College or university of Oklahoma, the Athens Celebration, as well as the Tokyo Summer Celebration.