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Jory Vinikour is recognized as one of the outstanding harpsichordists of his generation. A highly diversified career brings him to the world’s most important festivals and concert halls as recital and concerto soloist, partner to several of today’s finest singers, and increasingly as a conductor. Born in Chicago, Jory Vinikour came to Paris on a scholarship from the Fulbright Foundation to study with Huguette Dreyfus and Kenneth Gilbert. First Prizes in the International Harpsichord Competitions of Warsaw (1993) and the Prague Spring Festival (1994) brought him to the public’s attention, and he has since appeared in festivals and concert series such as Besançon Festival, Deauville, Monaco (Semaine de la Musique Baroque), Cleveland Museum of Art, Miami Bach Festival, Indianapolis Early Music Festival, etc.
A concerto soloist with a repertoire ranging from Bach to Nyman, passing by Poulenc’s Concert Champêtre, Jory Vinikour has performed as soloist with leading orchestras including Rotterdam Philharmonic, Flanders Opera Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonic of Radio France, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, and Moscow Chamber Orchestra, with conductors such as Armin Jordan, Marc Minkowski, Constantine Orbelian, John Nelson, and Fabio Luisi. He recorded Frank Martin’s Petite Symphonie Concertante with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Armin Jordan (Suisse Romande, 2005), and also performed the Harpsichord Concerto by the same composer with the Symphony Orchestra of the MDR in Leipzig’s Gewandhaus under the direction of Martin Haselböck in January of 2003.
A complete musician, Mr. Vinikour is gaining a reputation as a conductor (studies with Vladimir Kin and Denise Ham) and music director. His recent appearances with Musica Angelica (Los Angeles’ Baroque orchestra) were greeted with great enthusiasm by press and public alike. Conducting his own ensemble, Le Point du Jour, he accompanied stellar counter-tenor David Daniels in a five concert tour – Köln Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Münich Herkulessaal, the Concertgebouw, Barbican Center. For France 2 television, he has conducted Annick Massis in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and arias by Händel.
He has appeared extensively in recital with artists such as Hélène Delavault, Magdalena Kozena, Annick Massis, et al. He has accompanied legendary Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter in recitals in Sweden, Norway, Spain and Paris and at La Scala in Milan. With luthenist Jakob Lindberg, their programme of English and Italian music of the 17th century, entitled Music for a While was released by Deutsche Grammophon in early 2005.
Bach’s Goldberg Variations, released on Delos International in 2001 received excellent reviews throughout the world. John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune named it as one of 2001’s top ten classical CD’s, an honor that was also accorded to Mr. Vinikour’s recording of Bach’s seven harpsichord toccatas in 1999. Händel’s “Great” suites (1720) will be released by Delos International at the end of 2008. Jory Vinikour is closely associated with the musical activities at the Château de Chimay in Belgium, teaches harpsichord at the Austrian Baroque Summer Academy in Gmunden, and was their guest director in 2008.
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