Tim Blackmore
Recorder player and harpsichordist Tim Blackmore has received praise in Canada and abroad as a musician of ‘undaunted enterprise, formidable technical powers and lyrical expressiveness’ (London Daily Telegraph). A graduate of the Montreal Conservatoire (Premier prix, Piano) the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and the Guildhall School of Music in London (AGSM, Piano and Clarinet; Concert Diploma, Piano), he also possesses degrees in French Linguistics and Education from the University of Toronto and the University of New Brunswick. He has made numerous solo broadcasts for CBC Radio, Radio-Canada and BBC Radio and has recorded CDs of keyboard and recorder music by composers as varied as Byrd, Frescobaldi, JS Bach, Telemann, Quantz and Boismortier. In 2006 he founded the Early Music Studio of Saint John, of which he is the Artistic Director. In 2009 he formed the La Tour Baroque Duo with renowned lutenist Michel Cardin, performing throughout eastern, central and northern Canada as well as in the United States and in France. The Duo’s CD ‘Les caractères de la danse’ (2011) has received critical acclaim in the United States and Canada and has been featured on broadcasts throughout Canada on CBC Radio and Radio-Canada, and in the United States on Public Radio.
Student of Yona Ettlinger: 1977 – 1980