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572587bk Handel EU_572587bk Handel EU 25/08/2011 11:06 Page 1 Dorothea Craxton Leif Meyer, Harpsichord and Organ Dorothea Craxton graduated from the Staatliche Musikhochschule in Cologne with the Artistsʼ Diploma and continued Leif Meyer took his organ diploma with Hans Fagius at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and studied harpsichord her studies with Anna Reynolds and Barbara Schlick. She has appeared as a soprano in numerous oratorio and with Karen Englund and Lars Ulrik Mortensen. He has participated in master-classes with Harald Vogel, Hans-Ola concert performances of early music, as well as contemporary music premières and in chamber music. She gives Ericsson, Christophe Rousset, and others. Leif Meyer has appeared in Denmark and elsewhere with ensembles such HANDEL regular Lieder recitals and in recent years has given particular attention to the work of women composers of the as Ars Nova Copenhagen, Leipziger Kammerorchester, and The Harp Consort. He has numerous recordings to his romantic period, especially Clara Schumann and, in collaboration with the pianist Babette Dorn, the published and credit. unpublished songs of Fanny Hensel. In 2009 her recordings of the complete Clara Schumann Songs and the first Nine German Arias • Gloria Violin: Fredrik From: Mathias Stautinger, 1756 / Hanna Ydmark: Joannes Georgius Hellmer, 18th century volume of Fanny Henselʼs Songs were released by Naxos. She first joined the Immortal Bach Ensemble, conducted Cello: Clive Morris, 1988 • Violone: Robert Knudsen, 2000 by Morten Schuldt-Jensen, in 2004, recording some highly acclaimed CDs for Naxos. She has received invitations to Harpsichord: Matthias Kramer, 2001 • Organ: Henk Klop, 2002 Dorothea Craxton, Soprano festivals such as the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern, the Handel Festspiele in Pitch: aʼ = 415 Hz • Temperament: Neidhardt, 1729 Halle and the Europa Bach Festival in Paris.
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