Geoffrey Govier

fortepiano

Geoffrey Govier studied modern piano at the Royal College of Music in London from which he graduated with first-class honours before concentrating on the early piano. He studied fortepiano first privately with Melvyn Tan in London and with Stanley Hoogland in Amsterdam, before going to study with Malcolm Bilson for a doctorate at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York where he earned his degree in 2003.

He has played in many parts of the world, including Europe, New Zealand, the Far & Middle East, and America both as a soloist and a chamber musician. He has been fortunate to play with many leading figures in the period-instrument movement, including the singers Charles Daniels, Catherine Bott, Gerald Finley, the horn player Andrew Clark, and the chamber groups Sarasa, The Revolutionary Drawing Room and Ensemble Galant with whom he has made a number of recordings (BBC, Olympia, EMI & Hyperion).

He has worked with Catherine Mackintosh since the 1980s, particularly specializing in the violin sonatas of Mozart, and they will begin recording these works in the autumn of 2006. Throughout Mozart's anniversary year they have been performing Mozart cycles at a number of venues including Hatchlands Park, East Clandon as well as the Royal College of Music.

He gives regular master classes in Britain and France and teaches performance practice on the Masters' course at Trinity College of Music in Greenwich, London.

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