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About us~

About us

Prima la musica! is run by Brian Clark and Carlos Muñoz Cutiño.
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Brian's pic~Brian trained as a musicologist at St Andrews University in Scotland, and has been a freelance editor and typesetter since 1989. His customers include King's Music, The King's Consort, JOED Music, and some of the world's leading early music ensembles, as well as opera houses and standard orchestras.~~~319~1676~~
Carlos's pic~Carlos is a lawyer by training, but has had plenty of experience in large organisations and is in charge of the day to day running of the business side of the company. Although he enjoys baroque and classical music, his preference is definitely for the Romantic period, and for the more modern sounds of his distant homeland.

The late Jean Luc Gester worked at the Sorbonne in Paris and specialized in 17th- and 18th-century music in Alsace. For Prima la musica! he edited motets by the Swiss composer, Johann Melchior Gletle.~~~319~2582~~
Dennis's pic~Dennis Collins lives in France and works as a translator and musician. His speciality is early 17th-century Italy, and we sell editions by him of music by Donati, Grandi, Monteverdi, Rovetta, Rigatti, Barbara Strozzi and Isabella Leonarda. His own website, Celesti Fiori, gives full details of his editions.

Richard Maunder is the author of Mozart's Requiem (Oxford, 1988), Keyboard Instruments in Eighteenth-Century Vienna (Oxford, 1998), and many articles in musicological journals, mainly on the history of instruments and historical performance practice. His latest book is The Scoring of Baroque Concertos (Boydell & Brewer, 2004), in which he surveys the whole concerto repertoire up to about 1750, and shows that most of it was played as chamber music, one to a part. Richard has also published many editions of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music, including thirteen volumes of J. C. Bach's Collected Works (New York and London, 1984-90), and radical new versions of Mozart's Requiem, K. 626 (Oxford, 1988), and C minor Mass, K. 427 (Oxford, 1990). He plays the baroque/classical viola and violone, and was the conductor of the first modern staged performance of J. C. Bach's Endimione (Cambridge, 1994).

Nigel Springthorpe wrote his Ph. D. thesis on settings of the Passion in mid 18th century Germany, and we are happy to sell his editions of music by Johann Georg Roellig, who worked with Fasch (and succeeded him as Kapellmeister) at Zerbst.

Pierre Pascal wrote his thesis on string ensemble music in Salzburg, and he has so far supplied editions of sonatas by Heinirch Biber.

William Kempster completed his Doctorate at the University of Alberta, Canada, in 1999 with a thesis entitled: "Chromatic alteration in the Missa "L'Homme armé" of Pierre de la Rue: A case study in performance practice." He is the founding conductor of the Edmonton-based Chamber Choir Ensemble de la Rue (click here to visit their website), and is currently the Director of Choirs at the University of New Hampshire, USA. William has conducted choral and orchestral performances in Australia, Canada, the USA, France, Belgium, Germany and Bulgaria.~~~319~3768~~
Kim's pic~Kim Patrick Clow, a native of Hampton, Virginia, fell in love with early music as a teenager, after hearing David Munrow's score to the BBC series "The Six Wives of Henry VIII." Encouraged by his parents Frances and Les, Kim's love of baroque music lead him in 1983 to research Christoph Graupner's music. After moving to New York City in 2000, Kim currently works as a freelance researcher for Warner Bros. Records, with spare time spent on championing the music of the neglected masters such as Graupner, Telemann, Fasch and Stolzel.~~~319~3761~~
Paul's pic~Paul F. Rice is Professor of Musicology in the School of Music at Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. His research interests include the operatic and concert music of eighteenth-century France and England, as well as opera in general. His two most recent books are The Solo Cantata in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Thematic Catalog (2003) and Fontainebleau Operas for the Court of Louis XV of France by Jean-Philippe Rameau (2004). His score editions have been published and used on four commercial CD recordings. The most recent of these is a recording of eighteenth-century solo cantatas by Thomas Arne on the Centaur label (Centaur CRC 2815), released in 2006. He has been awarded three major research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and is currently working on a study of British musical reactions to the French Revolution.~~~319~3767~~
Gille pic~Dr Gottfried Gille works as Kantor and Organist in Bad Langensalza, Germany, where he also teaches Religious studies. Having studied church music and religion, and worked for a time, he went to the University of Halle/Saale, where he gained a diploma in musicology. His thesis was on the Life and Works of David Pohle.~~~319~3975~~
Tom's pic~After studies at Cornell University and SUNY at Stony Brook, Thomas Georgi moved to Australia where he was a violinist in the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. While residing in Brisbane, he was a founding member of the Badinerie Players and an active exponent of early music. Since returning to North America to join the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, he has broadened his musical horizons to include the viola d'amore, performing solos on that instrument on tour across North America, in Europe, Australia, and in Japan, as well as recording for Sony Vivarte, CBC, Analeckta, Naxos, and Bis. His website, www.violadamore.com, promotes understanding of the instrument with pictures, downloadable sound files.

Extracts from press reviews of Thomas Georgi’s Stockholm Sonatas (the Ariosti sonatas which are now available from Prima la musica!):

Five Star Rating, CBC Radio, Oct. 2006.

"Georgi's playing throughout the recital is stunning." Carlos Maria Solare, The Strad

"Thomas Georgi's accomplishment is a triumph." American Record Guide, Nov/Dec 2007.

"Georgi's extremely informative notes in the accompanying booklet are as excellent as his playing." Early Music, Aug. 2007~~~319~4039~~

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