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Twenty Second Annual Darwin College Lecture Series 2007

IDENTITY

Lecture 1   :   19 January

MUSICAL IDENTITY

Christopher Hogwood

Cambridge

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Biography

Christopher Hogwood is one of the greatest proponents of the early music movement, as well as a renowned conductor of twentieth century works. This season he becomes lifetime Emeritus Director of the Academy of Ancient Music, the orchestra he founded in 1973, and begins a series of Handel operas in concert with the rarely performed Amadigi. In addition he is Conductor Laureate of Boston's Handel & Haydn Society and continues his close association with the Kammerorchester Basel. In demand by many of the world's leading orchestras, he is a regular guest with the Tonhalle Zurich, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Athens Camerata. This season he also appears with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Bremen Philharmonic and Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Hogwood began his career as a keyboardist and has been a major force in the revolution that has forever changed the way music is performed, recorded and heard. Based on the principle of discovering and, where possible, recreating the composer's intentions, his approach begins with musicology - going back to the original sources, correcting published errors and tracking subsequent changes. His repertoire ranges from mediaeval to contemporary music, but with a particularly affinity for Haydn and Handel and in twentieth-century music, for the neo-baroque and neo-classical schools. His current editorial work varies from the great overtures and symphonies by Mendelssohn to the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book and complete keyboard works of Purcell. Hogwood has made more than 200 records with AAM for Decca, including the first ever complete Mozart symphonies on period instruments. Other current projects range from the series of neo-classical works on Sony/BMG's Arte Nova label with Kammerorchester Basel, to the Secret series for clavichord and Martinu's complete works for violin and orchestra. Future plans include Prokofiev, Martinu, Copland, Haydn and Mozart and Beethoven on the clavichord.Hogwood's many publications include a survey of patronage through the ages (Music at Court) and biographical studies of Haydn, Mozart and Handel. His latest book, `Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks', is published by Cambridge University Press. He is Honorary Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music. Visit www.hogwood.org for further information.

The lectures are given at 5.30 p.m. in The Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, with an adjacent overflow theatre with live TV coverage. Each lecture is typically attended by 600 people so you must arrive early to ensure a place.