Katelyn Clark
historical keyboards | claviers historiques
biography | biographie
Canadian musician Katelyn Clark is a historical keyboard specialist known for her work in early music and experimental repertoire. Her practice is built around informed playing and improvisation on the harpsichord, pianoforte, and portative organ (organetto). Katelyn has performed internationally as a soloist and collaborative musician and has been an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Alberta), NES (Skagaströnd, Iceland) and SPAR (St. Petersburg). Her artistic practice has been awarded numerous grants by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Early Music Society of the Islands, and Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. Originally from Victoria, British Columbia, Katelyn studied harpsichord at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Siena, Italy), and the University of Victoria (Canada). She holds a doctorate in early music performance from McGill University (Montréal, Québec).
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Spécialiste en instruments à claviers historiques, la musicienne canadienne Katelyn Clark est reconnue pour son interprétation de musique ancienne, classique et expérimentale. Sa pratique au clavecin, au piano-forte et à l’orgue portatif est informée par celles du passé. Dotée d’un sens artistique indéniable, Katelyn s’est produite sur scène en tant que soliste et chambriste au Canada et à l’internationale. Elle a été artiste en résidence au Centre des Arts de Banff (Alberta), au NES (Skagaströnd, Islande) et au SPAR (Saint Pétersbourg). Son parcours artistique a été récompensée par de nombreuses subventions au Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, la Early Music Society of the Islands (Colombie-Britannique) et du Conseil des Arts du Canada. Originaire de Victoria en Colombie-Britannique, Katelyn a étudié le clavecin au Conservatorium van Amsterdam (Pays-Bas), à l'Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Sienne, Italie) et à l'Université de Victoria (Canada). Elle est titulaire d'un doctorat en musique ancienne de l'Université McGill (Montréal, Québec).
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Katelyn Clark, portative organ
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photo credit Rita Taylor
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audio | video
albums
Landmarks (Another Timbre 2022)
works for portative/continuo organs, percussion, synth, composed and performed by Katelyn Clark and Isaiah Ceccarelli
Brocade (Redshift Records 2017)
works for harpsichord, piano, electronics by Annette Brosin, Emilie Lebel, Anna Pidgorna, and Linda Catlin Smith, performed with Luciane Cardassi, piano (rockeys duo)
publications
“‘Like a Night Without Darkness’: Music and Nightscape in the Early Piano Nocturne (1810–1830)” in Enlightened Nightscapes: Critical Essays on the Long Eighteenth-Century Night, edited by Pamela Phillips, 218–233, Routledge, 2023
“John Field’s Russian Landscape and the Early Nineteenth-Century Piano Nocturne,” Nineteenth-Century Music Review (August 2022)
“Review: Cliff Eisen and Alan Davidson’s (eds) Late Eighteenth-Century Music and Visual Culture,” Eighteenth-Century Music 17.1 (March 2020), 107–109
“Archer, Violet” (update), in MGG Online (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, mgg-online.com), 2020
“Dedicatees,” in The Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia, edited by Caryl Clark and Sarah Day-O’Connell, 85–86, Cambridge University Press, 2019
“The Contemporary Harpsichord and rockeys duo,” guest performer article, Journal of the Association of Canadian Women Composers (December 2018), 12–17
“To Anacreon in Heaven: Observations on the Publication and Performance Practice of London’s Anacreontic Society Song (c1773),” Early Music 46.4 (November 2018), 675–681
“‘Of the Temperament of Those Musical Instruments’: Considering Tiberius Cavallo and the Scientific Observation of Musical Sounds in Late Eighteenth-Century London,” Eighteenth-Century Music 15.1 (March 2018), 47–51
“‘Rondo for the Harp’ by Madame Dussek,” Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 21.1 (January 2017), 101–106
“London Pianist and Composer Theresa Jansen (c. 1770-1843),” featured guest blogger, Women's Philharmonic Advocacy (September 2015)
“The London Pianist: Theresa Jansen and the English Works of Haydn, Dussek, and Clementi,” HAYDN: The Online Journal of the Haydn Society of North America 2.1 (Spring 2012)
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