Simon Standage
Simon Andrew Thomas Standage (born November 8, 1941 in High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire ) is a British violinist and conductor .
Life
Simon Standage received his first violin lessons at the age of 7, after completing school he studied violin from 1963 to 1967 at King's College at Cambridge University and from 1967 to 1969 with Ivan Galamian in New York.
After various orchestral engagements and solo appearances, Trevor Pinnock appointed him as concertmaster in the newly founded baroque ensemble The English Concert in 1973 . In this position, which he held until the summer of 1991, he performed violin concertos by Bach , Vivaldi , Corelli and Handel and recorded them on record; his recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons (1981) received a Grammy nomination.
During this time he also played the modern violin in the English Chamber Orchestra from 1974 to 1978 and directed the City of London Sinfonia between 1980 and 1989; he also played the baroque violin under Christopher Hogwood at the Academy of Ancient Music .
In 1981 he founded the Salomon Quartet (with Micaela Comberti , 2nd violin, Trevor Jones, viola, and Jennifer Ward Clarke, cello ), which specialized in the performance of classical string quartet and quintet literature with period instruments .
From 1991 to 1995 he was Associate Director of the Academy of Ancient Music. During this time he was the first to record Mozart's violin concertos with authentic instruments and historical performance practice.
In 1990 he and Richard Hickox founded the Collegium Musicum 90 , which is entirely dedicated to historical performance practice. It changes in its line-up from a few musicians (for sonatas) to full orchestra size with choir (for oratorios). Standage works regularly with the Collegium Musicum Telemann in Osaka. Since 1991 he has been concertmaster of the Haydn Sinfonietta Vienna , with which he has recorded numerous CDs, some of which have received awards. He plays with Susan Alexander-Max ( fortepiano ) and Jennifer Ward Clarke (cello) in the chamber ensemble The Music Collection .
In 1983 he became professor for baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London and in the 1990s he became a regular lecturer for baroque violin and orchestra at the Academy for Early Music Oberlausitz in Görlitz. Since 2005 he has performed as a soloist with the Ensemble Le Chardon under the direction of Hajo Wienroth . Simon Standage plays a Giovanni Grancino violin , Milan 1685.
In 2010, Simon Standage received the Georg Philipp Telemann Prize for his extensive work as an interpreter and university lecturer for the dissemination of Telemann's works.
His son Silas Standage is a well-known musicologist, harpsichordist, conductor and composer. He worked in close collaboration with John Eliot Gardiner . In order to avoid frequent confusion with his father, he has called himself Silas Wollstone since 2005 for his compositional work and research at Queens' College in Cambridge .
Web links
- Biography on the Linnrecords website
- Simon Standage at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Standages' curriculum vitae on the website of the "Le Chardon" ensemble
- ↑ Web presence Silas Wollstone / Standage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Standage, Simon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Standage, Simon Andrew Thomas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British violinist and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire |