Robert Stephen Hill (born November 6, 1953 in the

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) is an American

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ist and

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. From 1990 to 2018 he was "Professor of Historical Keyboard Instruments, Performance Practice and Chamber Music" at the

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, Germany, and he now serves as the “Eugene D. Eaton Jr. Chair in Baroque Music Performance” and teaches harpsichord at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music, in the United States. Robert Hill studied harpsichord with

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at the Amsterdam Conservatory (Soloist Diploma 1974). He completed his Ph.D. thesis about

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at Harvard University in 1987. Amongst the awards he has received are: Erwin Bodky Award (1982), a NEA Solo Recitalist Award (1983), and the Noah Greenberg Award (1988),

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(2001), Cannes Classical Award (1999),

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(2008). The works of

are central to his recorded repertoire. He has performed with numerous musicians including

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Kim Kashkashian Kim Kashkashian (born August 31, 1952) is an American violist. She is recognized as one of the world's top violists. She has spent her career in the US and Europe and collaborated with many major contemporary composers. In 2013 she won a Grammy A ...

Helmut Müller-Brühl Helmut Peter Müller-Brühl (28 June 1933 – 2 January 2012) was a German conducting, conductor. Müller-Brühl was a pupil of Hermann Abendroth, founder of the Cologne Chamber Orchestra. In 1958, Müller-Brühl invited this orchestra to be the p ...

Nicholas McGegan James Nicholas McGegan OBE (born 14 January 1950 in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England) is a British harpsichordist, flutist, conductor and early music expert. Biography McGegan received his early education at Nottingham High School. He subs ...

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; and orchestras such as the

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Freiburger Barockorchester (Freiburg Baroque Orchestra) is a German Baroque orchestra founded in 1987, with the mission statement: "to enliven the world of Baroque music with new sounds". History The orchestra is based in Freiburg im Breisgau. ...

, Cologne Chamber Orchestra,

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, etc. His brother is the instrument-builder Keith Hill.

Writings

Music and Performance During the Weimar Republic
- Chapter 3: "Overcoming Romanticism": On the modernization of twentieth century performance practice

- Carl Reinecke’s Performance of Mozart’s Larghetto and the Nineteenth-Century Practice of Quantitative Accentuation

Recordings

* ttp://www.mdg.de/ MDG(Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm)
cpo

DG-Archiv
* Olympia * Ars Musici
Music&Arts

References

External links

Robert Hill Live
- Blog
Youtube channel "earlymus"

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