Carole Cerasi

In the last 25 years Carole Cerasi has established herself at the very front rank of early keyboard players and recording artists in her field.

Carole has given recitals in major festivals including La Roque d'Anthéron, Sablé, Ambronay, Istanbul, Lufthansa, York, Göttingen, Harrogate, Warwick, Brno, Dieppe, Tallinn, Lausanne and Ludwigsburg festivals. Additionally she has given recitals throughout Europe as well as in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Colombia, Canada and the States.

Her debut CD of Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre won the 1999 Gramophone Instrumental Award; discs of C.P.E. Bach and Thomas Tomkins were received to great critical acclaim, including the Diapason d'Or de l'Année. Her next CD, J.S. Bach and the Möller Manuscript, won a further Diapason d’Or de l'Année and was runner-up in the Gramophone Baroque Instrumental Awards. Further critically acclaimed discs of works followed with sonatas by Manuel Blasco de Nebra, Bach’s English Suites, Haydn and the Art of Variations and sonatas by Scarlatti (runner-up in the 2012 Gramophone Awards). Her latest release entitled Treasures of the Empfindsamkeit explores works by CPE Bach, Müthel, Haydn and Mozart on clavichord.

Besides her work as Professor of Harpsichord and Fortepiano at the Royal Academy of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Yehudi Menuhin School, Carole is a much sought-after pedagogue by talented students of the younger generation.

Early Music Today May 2015 - ‘Cerasi is a master of her art’