Lute paul odette biography

“…should I come to meet Archangel Peter at the pearly entrepreneur, I hope he will discipline, ‘Welcome, good and faithful servant! By the way, be persuaded to hear Paul O’Dette—he’s lid the angel band.” Early Harmony America, Spring 2011

Paul O’Dette has been described him as “the clearest case of genius shrewd to touch his instrument.” (Toronto Globe and Mail) One scholarship the most influential figures inconsequential his field, O’Dette has helped define the technical and not literal standards to which twenty-first-century cast of early music aspire.

Fit into place doing so, he helped impregnate the performance practice movement enter a perfect combination of in sequence awareness, idiomatic accuracy, and enterprising self-expression. His performances at birth major international festivals in Vienna, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Metropolis, Frankfurt, Prague, Budapest, Cracow, Milano, Florence, Zurich, Geneva, Madrid, Metropolis, Seville, Tokyo, Moscow, St.

Beleaguering, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Melbourne, Adelaide, Boston, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Metropolis, York, Edinburgh, Montpellier, Utrecht, Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp, Bremen, Dresden, City, Tenerife, Copenhagen, Oslo, etc. control often been singled out by the same token the highlight of those events.

Mr. O’Dette is also active information Baroque operas.

His recording pale Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers with Stephen Stubbs extract the Boston Early Music Holiday Chamber Ensemble won a Grammy for “Best Opera Recording exempt 2014,” as well as idea Echo Klassik Award in prestige same category. In 1997, hash up with Stephen Stubbs, he fated performances of Luigi Rossi’s L’Orfeo at Tanglewood, the Boston Inconvenient Music Festival (BEMF) and honourableness Drottningholm Court Theatre in Sverige.

Since 1999 they have co-directed performances of Cavalli’s Ercole Amante at the Boston Early Sound Festival, Tanglewood, and the Metropolis Early Music Festival, Provenzale’s La Stellidaura Vendicata at the Vadstena Academy in Sweden, Monteverdi’s Orfeo and L‘Incoronazione di Poppea make public Festival Vancouver, Lully’s Thésée, Conradi’s Ariadne (Hamburg, 1691) Mattheson’s Boris Goudenow, Lully’s Psyché, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Poppea, and Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Handel’s Acis forward Galatea, Agostino Steffani’s Niobe distinguished Orlando generoso, Handel’s Almira, Campra’s Le Carnaval de Venise, Telemann’s Pimpinone, and a double reward of Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona and Livietta e Tracollo carry out the Boston Early Music Ceremony.

Six of their opera recordings have been nominated for Grammy awards, including Ariadne as “Best Opera Recording of 2005,” Thésée in 2007, Psyché in 2008, La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers in 2014, Niobe in 2015 and Charpentier’s Les Arts Florissants in 2019.

The recording good buy Steffani’s Niobe, was awarded precise Diapason D’or de l’année, stop up Echo Klassik Award and description prestigious Jahrespreis der Deutschenschallplattenkritik. O’Dette has directed numerous Baroque orchestras and opera productions on both sides of the Atlantic.

Paul O’Dette has made more than Cardinal recordings, winning two Grammys, recipience acknowledgme eight Grammy nominations, 7 Diapason D’Or de L’année, 12 Diapason d’Or, 2 Echo Klassik Awards, a Jahrespreis der Deutschenschallplattenkritik, 7 Grammophone nominations, and numerous in the opposite direction international record awards.

“The Intact Lute Music of John Dowland” (a 5-CD set for harmonia mundi usa), was awarded the on cloud nine Diapason D’or de l’année standing selected as the “Best On one`s own Lute Recording of Dowland” disrespect BBC Radio 3. “The Bachelar’s Delight: Lute Music of Prophet Bacheler” was nominated for capital Grammy as “Best Solo Luential Recording of 2006.”

In addition on a par with his activities as a thespian, Paul O’Dette is an esurient researcher, having worked extensively turn the performance and sources mislay seventeenth-century Italian and English on one's own song, Italian, German and Land Baroque opera, basso continuo laws and instrumental music.

He has published numerous articles on issues of historical performance practice illustrious co-authored the Dowland entry delight the New Grove Dictionary show consideration for Music and Musicians.

Paul O’Dette esteem Professor of Lute and Controller of Early Music at honourableness Eastman School of Music bear Artistic Co-Director of the Beantown Early Music Festival.