Feb. 13: British Baroque cellist
Richard Tunnicliffe, British Baroque cellist, to perform at Roselle Center
1:47 p.m., Feb. 3, 2012--World-renowned British Baroque cellist and recording artist Richard Tunnicliffe will present a lecture and performance titled "Thinking Outside the Bachs" at 5:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 13, in the Gore Recital Hall of the Roselle Center for the Arts on the University of Delaware campus in Newark.
Tunnicliffe will present a discussion of the music for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as an overview of the music that led to those seminal compositions of the cello literature.
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This unique event is free and open to the public, and is made possible with generous funding from the UD Department of Music and the Faculty Senate's Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events.
Tunnicliffe has enjoyed a long and varied career at the forefront of Britain's thriving period instrument movement, combining this with a lively involvement in "modern" performance.
He is principal cello with the Avison Ensemble, whose performances and recordings of English string music of the 18th century are meeting with considerable critical success.
Tunnicliffe is also regularly invited to be principal/continuo cello or viola da gamba soloist with major orchestras. These have included the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, with which he has been associated since its foundation, the Boston Symphony, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, English National Opera, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the London Mozart Players.
Tunnicliffe is a member of the viol consort Fretwork, known worldwide for its innovative programs that frequently include new works. Fretwork's recording of Henry Purcell's Fantasias received a 2009 Gramophone Award in the Baroque instrumental category and in June 2010 the group hosted a weeklong series at London's Kings Place, premiering works by Alexander Goehr and Orlando Gough. They regularly tour in the U.S. and Europe and their most recent recording is a new arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Tunnicliffe is regularly heard as soloist and chamber musician and his performances of Bach's Six Cello Suites have been admired in venues such as London's Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room, the Berlin Schauspielhaus and the Warsaw Philharmonie. He also has performed a choreographed version of the Fifth Suite with dancer Elizabeth Lea.
Tunnicliffe's complete recording of the Suites will be released in March by Linn Records. Other recordings include the complete cello concerti by 18th century Durham-based composer John Garth with the Avison Ensemble, a disc of early Italian music including the complete solo cello music of Domenico Gabrielli, and the Kontakion for cello and piano by John Joubert.
Tunnicliffe teaches baroque and classical cello at the Royal College of Music, London, and at the Center for Early Music Performance and Research at the University of Birmingham, where he has given seminars and directed a performance of Bach’s St. John Passion. He has also given master classes and lecture-recitals at the universities of Sheffield and Bristol and at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.