Kah-Ming Ng

Born in Malaysia of Cantonese-Hakka descent, Kah-Ming Ng studied at Monash University, Melbourne (where he obtained a B.E. in civil engineering), the Frankfurt State Academy of Music (as a DAAD scholar), the London Guildhall School of Music & Drama (on a Foreign & Commonwealth Office scholarship), and St Anne’s College, Oxford (as a British Council Chevening research scholar), from which he gained his performance M.Phil. degree. He was awarded a D.Phil. by Keble College, Oxford, for his doctoral research into figured bass accompaniment in its social and artistic context. His harpsichord teachers included Elizabeth Anderson (Melbourne), Harald Hoeren (Cologne), Michael Behringer (Freiburg) and Christopher Kite (London). He is a winner of the Guildhall School’s Early Music Competition and a Fellow (in Harpsichord) of the Trinity College of Music London. He has accompanied the recitals and concerts of pioneering artists of the historically-informed movement, including Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, Catherine Bott, John Holloway, and Simon Standage. Kah-Ming regularly contributes reviews and articles to leading specialist music journals; he wrote the entries on English and French baroque ornamentation in the revised New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians. In between his performing and directing, he squeezes in some adjudicating (of competitions and examinations) and lecturing, his most recent position being Course Co-ordinator & Lecturer in Early Music Studies (2004–6) at the Faculty of Music, Oxford University.

'an outstanding strategist on the harpsichord and the organ, and a sagacious continuo player'—Goldberg

'undoubted technical virtuosity and intellectual grasp'—Early Music News

'[he] did a great deal to put the audience at ease without being patronizing throughout the evening; he introduced each piece with short comments on 'what to listen for' along with background information on the composition. I left feeling a great deal more optimistic about audience-performer relations'—Woburn Music, http://www.woburnmusic.com

'Kah-Ming Ng is both a scholar and a high-quality performer'—Musicweb, http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2006/Sept06/Telemann_Godfather_SIGCD086.htm


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Susanne Heinrich

Susanne Heinrich studied at the Meistersinger Conservatory of Nuremberg, and at the Frankfurt State Academy of Music, where she passed her recital diploma with the highest distinction. She was then granted the prestigious DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship to study with Wieland Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. She has performed and recorded with the leading period-instrument ensembles of Europe, including the English Concert, The King's Consort, Taverner Consort, and Parley of Instruments, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and is also a member of the Palladian Ensemble. She has written for various journals, including The Consort, and Chelys, and is sought after as a teacher, her last position being Professor for Viols and Violone at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London); she is now devoting her time to the chief editorship of Charivari Agréable Publications. The revised New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians (Grove VII) refers to her as one of the 'leading players' of this generation.

'I can see her bow flying across the strings: the playing of the passagework is reminiscent of a virtuoso violinist'—Viola da Gamba Mitteilungen, Switzerland

'deeply evocative viol playing'—Gramophone

'smooth as melted chocolate'—Classic CD

' Ms Heinrich has succeeded in removing the curse of ethereal preciousness connected with the music, and restored the qualities that the flutist Hubert le Blanc must have heard when he talked of Marais’s music making “bronze vessels tremble, and sonorous bodies vibrate.” My only wish now is that Ms Heinrich and her colleagues would undertake to record the entire output of Marais! Highest recommendation.'—Continuo (USA)
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