Palestrina: Prince of Music Pre-Concert Lecture

To view the full concert, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/palestri... About the Lecturer: Raymond Erickson, Professor Emeritus of Music at Queens College (where he lectured on medieval and renaissance music, among other things) and the CUNY Graduate Center, has been a frequent pre-concert lecturer for many New York musical organizations, including Lincoln Center and St. Luke in the Fields, and has written program notes for Carnegie Hall. A well-traveled harpsichordist and pianist who has taught historical performance practice for more than forty years, he is the author or editor of four books. In 2014, he performed the first solo harpsichord recitals on major stages in Beijing and Wuhan, and in 2017 he had a six-city tour of performances, lectures, and master classes in China and Taiwan, including a sold-out all-Bach recital in Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall, a program he repeated later that year as a benefit for the music program at St. Luke in the Fields. His current research focuses on the performing history of Bach's violin Ciaccona, on which subject he has published several articles.