PALLADIANS

• William Carter lute / theorbo / baroque guitar
• Susanne Heinrich bass viol
• Rodolfo Richter violin
• Silas Standage harpsichord

Williiam Carter

lute, theorbo & baroque guitar

Born in Florida, William Carter received a thorough training as a modern guitarist with Bruce Holzman at The Florida State University before falling in love with the earlier plucked instruments and the world of historical performance. Following initial guidance from Pat O'Brien in New York City, he travelled to London as a Fulbright Scholar where he studied the Lute with Nigel North and quickly established himself as one of the leading players on old instruments.

Concert tours and festival appearances followed throughout Europe, Asia and North and South America both as an orchestral player and as a chamber musician and soloist with his own group, Palladians. Carter has an extensive discography (including 10 CD's with Palladians) and has featured on numerous recordings of the Academy of Ancient Music and The English Concert, for both of which he acts as principal lutenist.

He is also an enthusiastic teacher and is Professor of Baroque Studies and Lute at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. 2005 saw a new development in Carter's career as his exploration of the world of the baroque guitar led to the release of his first solo album La Guitarre Royalle: The music of Francesco Corbetta (Linn CKD 185) which has been widely praised and named in Gramophone's ‘Critic's Choice' list for 2005. His second album with Linn Records, La Guitarra Española, was named Gramophone ‘Editor’s Choice’ in July 2007 whilst receiving numerous other outstanding reviews from other publications.

Susanne Heinrich

bass viol

Susanne Heinrich studied at the Meistersinger Conservatory of Nuremberg and at the Frankfurt State Academy of Music, where she passed her recital diploma with the highest distinction. She was then granted the prestigious DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship to study with Wieland Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

She has performed and recorded with the leading period-instrument ensembles of Europe, including the English Concert, The Kings Consort, Taverner Consort, and Parley of Instruments, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She is a member of Charivari Agréable with whom she has made many highly praised recordings.

She has written for various journals, including The Consort and Chelys, and is sought after as a teacher; her last position being Professor for Viols and Violone at the GSMD. She is now devoting much of her time to the chief editorship of Charivari Agréable Publications. The revised New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians (Grove VII) refers to her as ‘one of the leading players of this generation’.

Rodolfo Richter

violin

Rodolfo Richter trained as a modern violinist with Klaus Wusthoff and Pinchas Zuckermann and studied composition with Hans Joachim Koellreutter and Pierre Boulez. He studied baroque violin with Monica Huggett at the Royal Academy of Music.

Rodolfo has broadcast live recitals as a soloist in the USA, Britain, Germany and Belgium. He was a prize-winner at the prestigious International Early Music Competition for Ensembles in Bruges (2000) and at the Antonio Vivaldi International Violin Competition (2001). He has recorded Vivaldi solo concertos for Opus 111 and has been invited to lead orchestras including the Hannover Band, St James Baroque, the Academy of Ancient Music and the English Concert.

Rodolfo has toured extensively throughout Europe, USA, South America, Australia, the Middle and Far East, including such prestigious venues as Wigmore Hall, London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Wien, Chicago's Orchestra Hall and the Alice Tully Hall in New York. Rodolfo records as a solo artist for Linn Records. His first disc of VI Sonate by Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (Linn CKD 270) was released in November 2005.

SIlas Standage

harpsichord

Silas Standage was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral and sang for the wedding of Charles and Diana as well as being part of a real boy band of trebles called 'Too Short'. During his teens his flare for composing and arranging music flourished. After an organ scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge he studied the harpsichord at the Guildhall, London and the Conservatoire Royal, Brussels. He now performs with many orchestras, most notably the English Baroque Soloists with whom he performed and recorded most of Bach's Cantata's during the year 2000. He is passionate about 17th century music, in particular the crazy music of Matthew Locke whose violin band music he has edited. Some of his own compositions have been performed and recorded by Fretwork.