Historical keyboards with Catalina Vicens

Today I interview Catalina Vicens, Visiting Professor: harpsichord and research, curator of the San Colombano Museum and its famous collection of historical keyboard instruments. Catalina is a specialist in a wide range. Research, creativity and the wish to communicate have led Catalina Vicens to become one of the most sought-after historical keyboard performers and teachers today. Since 2021 Vicens is director and curator of the Tagliavini Collection - Museo San Colombano, Bologna after devoting a solo and research career to the study of antique keyboard instruments. She is also recognized for her work with medieval and renaissance keyboards, working alongside instrument builders in the development of new prototypes based on historical sources. Her work alongside composers has given a new life to historical instruments. Catalina is Guest Professor for harpsichord and research at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. She has been invited as Visiting Professor of Harpsichord at Oberlin Conservatory and to teach master-classes at the Curtis Institute of Music Philadelphia, the Juilliard School of Music New York, Longy School of Music Cambridge, UC Berkeley and the Flint Antique Harpsichords Collection, as well as in the Conservatories and Music Universities of Vienna, St Andrews, Berlin and Essen, and teaches annually courses in Canada, Sweden, Germany and Switzerland. She’s been invited as jury member at the prestigious MA Festival Harpsichord Competition - Bruges, Jurow International Harpsichord Competition, Mechelen Harpsichord Competition, the Dulwich Historical Keyboard Competition and the Wanda Landowska Competition Poznań. Vicens has given lectures at museums in Hamburg, Munich, Vermillion, Edinburgh as well as Universities of Vienna, Indiana, Warwick, Leiden, St Andrews, Berkeley, Rochester, Santiago de Chile and the Collège de France besides presenting papers at several international conferences. About Catalina: https://www.catalinavicens.com Her Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZdDJaLko3Z7V1vddOVDiAg/featured Video from the San Colombano collection with a presentation of the instruments by Catalina. The audio samples were taken from this video: https://youtu.be/MAefh5ssQxQ Excerpt from Catalina's project "The city of ladies": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3lSv8Q2x3U Discover more https://insightreadingenlightenment.carrd.co Write to us if you want to support us [email protected] #insightreadingenlightenment #earlymusicpodcastinsightreadingenlightenment #catalinavicens #organetto #sancolombano #historicalkeyboards #cembalo #renaissance #baroque #baroquemusic #podcast #earlymusicpodcast #darinaablogina #earlymusic #remaawards