SUMMER SCHOOL OF EARLY IRISH HARP
MALCOLM PROUD
Harpsichord
Malcolm Proud is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. He lectures on the BA Degree Course in Music at Waterford Institute of Technology and is organist and choirmaster at St. Canice’s Cathedral in Kilkenny. Since winning the Edinburgh International Harpsichord Competition in 1982 he has performed as a harpsichordist and organist throughout Europe and has toured North America several times. In 2000 he participated in Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach Cantata Pilgrimage. He toured Japan in 2001 in the Purcell Quartet’s production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo with tenor Mark Padmore in the lead role.
He has given recitals and recorded with many international artists such as sopranos Emma Kirkby, Nancy Argenta, Magdelena Kozena, and Lenneke Ruiten, violinists Maya Homburger, Monica Huggett, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Pavlo Beznosiuk, and John Holloway, flautists Wilbert Hazelzet and James Galway, oboeist Marcel Ponseele, cellist Steven Isserlis and viol player Sarah Cunningham and is a member of the Irish Baroque Orchestra and Camerata Kilkenny.
He has made over thirty CD recordings including Bach’s six sonatas for violin and harpsichord with Maya Homburger, Bach’s Clavier Übung III recorded on the Metzler organ in Stein am Rhein (Switzerland), the Goldberg Variations and Purcell’s harpsichord music. In the last few months he has made CD recordings of Bach’s 5th Brandenburg Concerto with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists and of works by Mozart with Dutch soprano Lenneke Ruiten and the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ed Spanjaard in Amsterdam. Organ recitals on the historic organ in Frederiksborg Castle near Copenhagen and in Charlottesville, Virginia and Boston will take place in 2009. In 2010 he will record J.S. Bach’s The Musical Offering in Belgium with Camerata Kilkenny and Dutch flautist Wilbert Hazelzet.