Conductor Ton Koopman is L'Academie's Artistic Advisor

We are delighted to announce that Ton Koopman has agreed to serve as L'Academie's Artistic AdvIsor.
 
Dec. 21, 2009 - PRLog -- L'Academie is pleased to welcome Ton Koopman as Artistic Advisor.  Dr. Koopman enjoys an international reputation as conductor, harpsichordist and scholar, most notably as director of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus. Koopman's activities as a soloist, accompanist and conductor  have been recorded for labels like Erato, Teldec, Sony, Philips and Deustche Grammaphon.

He has been featured as guest conductor for major symphony orchestras around the world and was just recently  named Artist in Residence at the Cleveland Orchestra for three consecutive years starting in 2011. On January 8, 2010, he will make his directorial debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra alongside soloist Yo-Yo Ma.

Koopman's appointment as Artistic Advisor of L'Academie  directly supports our mission to encourage, develop and preserve the extraordinary legacy of Boston as a world-class center for early music.

Dr. Koopman had this to say about the live recording from L'Académie's debut concert of French Baroque dance music in February 2009: "With great pleasure I listened to the recording of French music played by L'Academie. The impressions are lovely, dansant [dancing], in style and in tune. In short: real French! Congratulations!" -Ton Koopman

We are very honored to have Ton Koopman's endorsement of L'Academie and look forward to many years with him as our Artistic Advisor.

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Welcome to L'Académie. It is our pleasure to invite you to our 2009-2010 season at Marsh Chapel of Boston University. The programs for this season will definitely teach, move, and delight. Our December program "Three Madmen" - Love, Jealousy and Death as expressed through the vocal music of Charpentier and Clerambault. February's program, "(s)he's just not that into you," exposes the conundrum that is love through love songs from the 17th-century English court. Finally, we finish in April with "Chasing Corelli," an aural tapestry of the concerti grossi form, as fashioned through the hands of Corelli, Handel, Locatelli and Van Wassenaer.

For more information check out our website at www.lacademiemusic.org
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