Gary studied organ and harpsichord at Chetham's
School of Music, the John Loosemore Centre, and was an organ scholar at New
College, Oxford. Between 1992 & 2000, he was a member of the
highly-acclaimed baroque ensemble Sonnerie, with whom he performed
regularly throughout Europe and the United States, and recorded frequently on
both disc and radio. Gary predominantly makes appearances as soloist, director,
accompanist, and chamber musician. He also performs regularly with ensembles
such as The King's Consort and Concordia.
Recent engagements have included making his solo
Wigmore Hall debut performing Bach's complete Well-Tempered Clavier, and
also the Goldberg Variations at the Spitalfields Festival, the
Snape Maltings, the Holywell Music Rooms in Oxford, and throughout the UK;
recitals at the Halle International Handel Festival, the Norfolk & Norwich
Festival, Fenton House and Finchcocks; performances of Bach Harpsichord
Concertos at the Ansbach Bach Festival, the WDR Herne Festival, the Vantaa
Baroque Festival, the Nordic Baroque Festival, the Spitalfields Festival, and
in Amsterdam, Madrid and Santiago; conducting performances of Rameau's
tragédie-lyrique Hippolyte e Aricie with the Yorke Trust, and at
the RNCM; directing the Portland Baroque Orchestra in the USA, the Britten
Pears Baroque Orchestra, the Bach Players at the Berlin Bachtage, Florilegium
Baroque Orchestra, and performances of both Haydn's Creation and
Handel's Messiah; and accompanying in recitals, and on radio, the
counter-tenor James Bowman, the soprano Carolyn Sampson, and the baritone
Thomas Guthrie.
During the 2001 season he will be giving recitals
in Japan and Germany; directing ensembles in both Canada and Colombia;
performing with baroque violinist, Andrew Manze; recording & releasing Book
II of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier; and conducting Handel's Acis
& Galatea and Britten's Albert Herring for Kent Opera, as well
as performance's of Handel's Julius Caesar and Tamerlano. Recent
CD releases include a disc of Mozart's Piano Quartets, with Sonnerie,
and Book I of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (both for ASV) - both having
already met with critical acclaim, the latter including No.1
choice,"CDs of the Year" in the Sunday Times.
Gary is musical director of The New Chamber Opera
and The Band of the Instruments, whose past productions have included Britten's
Turn of the Screw, Handel's Xerxes, Cimarosa's Il matrimonio
segreto and Mozart's Così fan tutte. Forthcoming
recordings with ASV include a project to record Vivaldi's complete Cantatas,
and Charpentier's complete stage works composed for the
Comédie-Française; the Band of Instruments is currently
early music ensemble-in-residence at Oxford University. Gary was recently
appointed musical director of Kent Opera.
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