HARPSICHORDIST VICTOR HILL TO PERFORM FREE CONCERT AT THE CLARK

For Immediate Release

February 01, 2013

Williamstown, MA—Renowned harpsichordist Victor Hill will present a free solo recital at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute on Sunday, February 10 at 3 pm. Admission is free.

Among Hill’s musical selections are J. S. Bach's Toccata in E minor and works of Jacques Duphly and Domenico Scarlatti.

Hill was Professor of Mathematics at Williams College for forty years. He studied the harpsichord in Amsterdam with the noted Dutch harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt and has played more than 900 concerts throughout the United States and in Europe. Hill plays the double-manual harpsichord of eighteenth-century design that was custom built for him in 1997 by Richard Kingston of Asheville, North Carolina. He tunes the instrument himself in a common eighteenth-century pitch and temperament.

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