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Jeannette Sorrell is
recognized internationally
as a leading
creative voice among
early-music conductors.
She studied
conducting at the Aspen
and Tanglewood
music festivals under
Leonard Bernstein
and Roger Norrington;
and harpsichord with
Gustav Leonhardt
in Amsterdam. She
won both first prize and the Audience Choice Award
in the 1991 Spivey International Harpsichord Competition,
competing against over 70 harpsichordists
from Europe, Israel, the United States, and the Soviet
Union.
As one of America’s leading baroque guest conductors,
Sorrell has led the National Symphony at the
Kennedy Center, Pittsburgh Symphony, St. Paul
Chamber Orchestra, Utah Symphony, New World
Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Seattle
Symphony, and the Handel & Haydn Society
(Boston), among others.
Sorrell is the founder of Apollo’s Fire and has led
the renowned ensemble as conductor and harpsichord
soloist at London’s BBC Proms, Carnegie
Hall, Madrid’s Royal Theatre, London’s Wigmore
Hall, and the Tanglewood, Aspen, and Boston
Early Music festivals, among others. Sorrell and
Apollo’s Fire have released 26 commercial CDs,
of which 8 have been bestsellers on the Billboard
classical chart. Her recordings include the complete
Brandenburg Concerti and harpsichord
concerti of Bach, Bach’s St John Passion, Handel’s
Messiah and the Monteverdi Vespers. Sorrell has
attracted national attention and awards for her
creative programming, using contextual and
dramatic elements. She has received an honorary
doctorate from Case Western University, two
special awards from the National Endowment for
the Arts for her work on early American music,
and an award from the American Musicological
Society.
JEANNETTE SORRELL
Conductor & Harpsichord
2018-19
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