Guest Recital: Kevin Birch, clavichord

Dr. Kevin Birch take us on a journey of musical discovery performing keyboard music of the 17^th- and 18^th-centuries on clavichords by Martin Kather (Hamburg - 2020) after Praetorius (1621), Andreas Hermert (Berlin - 2023) after an anonymous Austrian clavichord (c. 1700) - known as the “Admont” clavichord after the Benedictine Monastery at Admont, and Dutch builder Koen Vermeij (Bennebroek, NL - 1988) after Christian Gottlob Hubert (1784).

Birch will perform music by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621), Peter Philips (1560-1628), Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667) and Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (c. 1656-1746).

He will introduce the program with a description and historical overview of the clavichords.