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Lillian Gordis

Lillian Gordis, born on July 12, 1992, in Berkeley, California, is an American-born harpsichordist who moved to France when she was 16.[1]

Lillian Gordis
Background information
Born (1992-07-12) July 12, 1992 (age 32)
Berkeley, California
GenresRenaissance, Baroque
InstrumentHarpsichord
Websitelillian-gordis.com

Biography

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Lillian Gordis began studying the harpsichord at age 9 with Katherine Roberts Perl and then Arthur Haas in New York City. At the encouragement of Pierre Hantaï, she moved to France at age 16 to study privately with him as well as with Bertrand Cuiller and Skip Sempé.[2] In 2018, she obtained a joint master's degree in musicology and early music performance at the Université Paris-Sorbonne.[3]

As a soloist, she has been invited on the radio show Génération Jeunes Interprètes on France Musique[4] and has participated in festivals in Europe and the United States, such as Sinfonia en Périgord,[5] the Printemps de Lanvellec,[6] Jeunes Talents, Paris Clavecin Festival,[7] Clavecin en Fête, Festival de Richelieu, Voyage dans l’Hiver (Moulin d’Andé), Petits Concerts dans les Copeaux, L’Art de la Fugue, Oude Muziek Utrecht Fringe, and at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées, Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ, Museo Musica Bologna, and MusicSources Berkeley; she was also invited to play with the Orchestre Français des Jeunes Baroque in 2017 under the direction of Rinaldo Alessandrini and with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris under the direction of Giuliano Carmignola and Fabio Biondi with Vivica Genaux and Sonia Prina.

In 2018, she formed the Duo Gordis-Hantaï with Jérôme Hantaï (viola da gamba). She maintains regular activity as a chamber musician.[8][9]

She is a four-time laureate of the Fondation Royaumont (in 2013 and from 2015 to 2017) and is supported by the Fondation d’entreprise Safran.

In 2019, her first solo album, Zones, dedicated to the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, was released on the label Paraty (Harmonia Mundi-PIAS).[10][11] Lauded as "a Martha Argerich of the harpsichord," she is the first woman in France in 43 years—since Blandine Verlet (Philips, 1976)—to have released a solo recording of Scarlatti sonatas on the harpsichord.[12][13]

In the 2023-2024 academic year, Lillian Gordis was the visiting harpsichord professor at Oberlin Conservatory.[14] Starting in Fall 2024, she became the chair of baroque music and professor of harpsichord at University of Colorado Boulder.[15]

Discography

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2019: Zones: Domenico Scarlatti. Harpsichord sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. Label: Paraty PTY 919180 (Harmonia Mundi-PIAS).[16][17]

References

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  1. ^ "Lillian Gordis". Spotify. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  2. ^ "Joute ! L'intégrale des concertos de Bach pour 2 et 3 clavecins - Lillian Gordis & Bertrand Cuiller" (PDF). mima.paris-sorbonne.fr.
  3. ^ "Bach, Variations Goldberg - Lillian Gordis - inauguration du clavecin Marchand | Master Interprétation des Musiques Anciennes - recherche et pratique". mima.paris-sorbonne.fr. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  4. ^ "Edwin Fardini et Tanguy de Williencourt ; Lillian Gordis ; Takuya Otaki". France Musique (in French). 25 March 2018. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  5. ^ Jakubowicz, Michel (3 July 2017). "Sinfonia : 27e Festival Baroque du 26 août au 2 septembre en Périgord". ON-mag.fr (in French). Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  6. ^ "Le premier concert du Printemps de Lanvellec très suivi". Le Telegramme (in French). 2018-05-06. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  7. ^ "Virtuosité et pédagogie au premier Paris Clavecin Festival". Classicagenda (in French). 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  8. ^ alaincochard (2018-04-25). "Printemps de Lanvellec 2018 – Baroque nouvelle génération". Concertclassic (in French). Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  9. ^ "Gordis-Hantaï". Lillian Gordis Harpsichord. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  10. ^ "Lillian Gordis: le cubisme au clavecin - Radio". Play RTS (in French). 13 June 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  11. ^ "Lillian Gordis - Zones :: FROGGY'S DELIGHT :: Musique, Cinema, Theatre, Livres, Expos, sessions et bien plus". www.froggydelight.com. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  12. ^ Chiżyński, Maciej (2020-01-06). "L'eau et le feu ou les Scarlatti interprétés par Pierre Hantaï et Lillian Gordis". ResMusica. Retrieved 2020-01-24.
  13. ^ "Blandine Verlet - Domenico Scarlatti 15 Sonates Pour Clavecin Vol. 2". Discogs. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  14. ^ "ABOUT — Lillian Gordis".
  15. ^ "College of Music announces new harpsichord faculty". 2 May 2024.
  16. ^ "ZONES Domenico Scarlatti, Lillian Gordis, Paraty Productions". Paraty Fr. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  17. ^ "ConcertoNet.com - The Classical Music Network". www.concertonet.com. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
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