Alexander Bauhart

harpsichordist

Mr. Bauhart is an accomplished and admired harpsichordist and organist born in Montréal, Québec, and well established in New England since 1993. His early teachers include Geneviève Soly, Mireille Lagacé, and the world renowned organist Bernard Lagacé. After receiving formation in choral conducting under Christopher Jackson, he founded the Montréal based professional madrigal ensemble “I Madrigali.”

Mr. Bauhart was granted a merit scholarship from the New England Conservatory in Boston where he studied with John Gibbons, and later received another merit scholarship from the School of Music at Yale University, where he was the pupil of Richard Rephann.

In the 1980’s, Mr. Bauhart pursued some studies in Vienna under Isolde Ahlgrimm, then a few weeks in Rotterdam with Gustav Leonhardt, and in Paris with Huguette Dreyfuss. He also spent a few weeks along Scott Ross, who gave him his sense of conceptualisation in harpsichord music performance.

Performing regularly as a soloist (harpsichord and organ), chamber music director and bassi continuo player in the United States, Canada and Europe, Mr. Bauhart has been the Minister of Music, Organist and Choirmaster at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, in Bristol, Rhode Island, where he founded and served as Artistic Director of the concert series “Music at St. Michael’s Concert Series.” His continuing work at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments allows him to further his research and experience in the field of harpsichord history and restoration. Besides research in ethnomusicology, past and present, he is currently working on the publication of the complete works of Johannes Trier, a pupil of J. S. Bach. In 2000, he assisted Christopher Hogwood with his transcriptions of Charles Burney’s notes on German Music.

Mr. Bauhart’s many awards include the Woods Chandler Memorial Award for an Outstanding Organist (Connecticut, 1998), the FCAR Scholarship for Excellence in Research (Government of Québec, 1997-1999), and the Medal of Achievement in the Popular Arts, presented to him by the Minister of Culture of Poland in 1981.