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Simon Standage
real name Simon Andrew Thomas Standage
High Wycombe, United Kingdom
Simon Standage is credited on 1,076 releases across 208 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1971–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,076
Credits
208
Albums
6
Decades active
12
In collections
Biography
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English violinist, conductor, and Professor of Baroque Violin. Born 8th November 1941 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
Known for playing and conducting baroque and classical music on original instruments.
He studied at. Former member of The London Symphony Orchestra (1969-1972). Founder member and first violinist of The English Concert from 1972 to 1991, sub-leader of the English Chamber Orchestra from 1974 to 1978, leader of the City Of London Sinfonia from 1980 to 1989, and co-founder of The Salomon Quartet in 1981. He played regularly with The Academy Of Ancient Music (of which he was Associate Director from 1991 to 1995) throughout the 1980s. In 1990, he founded the group Collegium Musicum 90 with Richard Hickox.
He has also made regular collaboration with Collegium Musicum Telemann in Osaka and Haydn Sinfonietta Wien. He plays in period-instrument chamber group The Music Collection with Susan Alexander-Max (fortepiano) and Jennifer Ward Clarke (cello).
Professor of Baroque Violin at the since 1983.
Husband of Jennifer Standage.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
1,076 releases · 208 albums · active 1971–2023
- Performance · 1,398
- Other credits · 299
- Mastering · 70
Studios: Henry Wood Hall, London · Abbey Road Studios · Kingsway Hall · St. John's, Smith Square
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge: Collector's Edition
2002
Water Music
1983
Le Quattro Stagioni = Die Vier Jahreszeiten = The Four Seasons = Les Quatre Saisons
1982
6 Brandenburgische Konzerte
1982
12 Concerti Grossi Op. 6
1982
Concerti Grossi Op. 3
1982
Die 13 Cembalokonzerte
1981
Trial Of Harmony And Invention Nos. 1-4 "The Four Seasons"
1976
Gloria: The Sacred Music Of John Rutter
Concertos Brandebourgeois - Concertos Pour Violon - Concertos Pour Clavecin
2000
12 Concerti Grossi Op. 6
1988
Frequent collaborators
- Vivaldi
- George Frideric Handel
- Mozart
- Joseph Haydn
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Various
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Haydn
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