Grant Colburn (born in

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in 1966) is an American

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

and

harpsichord A harpsichord ( it, clavicembalo; french: clavecin; german: Cembalo; es, clavecín; pt, cravo; nl, klavecimbel; pl, klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. This activates a row of levers that turn a trigger mechanism ...

ist. He studied harpsichord with

Igor Kipnis Igor Kipnis (September 27, 1930January 23, 2002) was a German-born American harpsichordist, pianist and conductor. Biography The son of Metropolitan Opera bass Alexander Kipnis, he was born in Berlin, where his father was singing with the Berlin S ...

and composition with Irwin Sonenfield. He is the author of six published collections of neo-baroque and neo-renaissance harpsichord music including most recently two volumes of Twelve Carols of Christmas arranged for Harpsichord or Organ and Six Voluntaries for the Organ or Harpsichord. Also two concertos for harpsichord and strings, another concerto for recorder and strings, music for recorder/flute with continuo and works for unaccompanied cello or viola da gamba, as well as songs for voice and continuo of which there are recordings by Fernando de Luca, Andreas Zappe, Ernst Stolz, Daniel Shoskes, Simone Stella, Robert Ronnes, Carson Cooman and Michele Barchi. A number of his works were adapted for Baroque

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. Colburn was the author of a feature article on period composition in the summer 2007 issue of Early Music America Magazine. More recently he authored an article on early music and its growing presence on YouTube in Early Music America Magazine for its winter 2008 issue. He is also a contributing reviewer and writer for Harpsichord and Fortepiano Magazine. A concert of Colburn's compositions was given at the 2007

Boston Early Music Festival The Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) is a non-profit organization founded in 1980 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. to promote historical music performance. It presents an annual concert series in Boston and New York City, produces opera recordi ...

."A View from the Fringe of the Fringe". ''Harpsichord and Fortepiano Magazine'', vol. 12, no.1. Colburn is one of the founding members of

Vox Saeculorum ''Vox Sæculorum'' is an international society of contemporary composers writing in the Baroque style established in 2006. Vox Sæculorum was the primary focus of a feature-length article on period baroque composition written by Grant Colburn and pu ...

, a society of composers working in early historical styles. He is also a member of the

Delian Society The Delian Society was an international community of composers, performers, academics, independent scholars, recording engineers, music publishers, and amateurs dedicated to revitalizing and promoting tonality in contemporary art music. The socie ...

, an organization devoted to preservation of tonal music.

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*Early Music America, Summer 2007. *Harpsichord and Fortepiano, Volume 11, No.2 *Harpsichord and Fortepiano, Volume 12, No.1 *Early Music America, Winter 2008. *Harpsichord and Fortepiano, Volume 13, No.2 1966 births Living people American male composers 21st-century American composers Historicist composers Composers for harpsichord 21st-century American male musicians Vox Saeculorum {{US-composer-20thC-stub

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