About

LILLIAN GORDIS (b. 1992, Berkeley, California) discovered the harpsichord at the age of nine. She gave her first recitals at the age of 11, having studied first with Katherine Roberts Perl and later with Arthur Haas in New York. Deeply passionate about the harpsichord, Lillian moved to France at the encouragement of Pierre Hantaï when she was sixteen.

In 2009, Bertrand Cuiller accepted her as a student and she studied with him for three years. She received a Prix in basso continuo from the CRR de Boulogne-Billancourt in 2012 after three years of working with Frédéric Michel, and in 2013 she was awarded her harpsichord Prix “mention très bien à l’unanimité avec félicitations du jury” at the CRR de Rueil-Malmaison. She has worked extensively with Amandine Beyer, François Fernandez, Olivia Centurioni and Antoine Torunczyk in chamber music sessions. Lillian has participated in several renowned academies at the Fondation Royaumont, Barbaste, Lisieux and Vannes. In 2013-2014, she spent a year of further study at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where she benefited from the instruction of musicians such as Marc Hantaï and Pedro Memelsdorff. In 2016, she was accepted in the Performance Master’s program at the Sorbonne-PSPBB in the class of Bibiane Lapointe. Lillian was for several years the only private student of Pierre Hantaï.

Lillian performs regularly as a soloist and continuo player and teaches the harpsichord at the Ecole de Musique du Plessis-Bouchard. She has performed at festivals such as Jeunes Talents in Paris, the Féstival de Richelieu, Les Concert’Thés, the Museo Musica Bologna, Oude Muziek Utrecht Fringe and in numerous concerts in France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, England and the United States. She often performs with friends such as Johanna Bartz, Martin Chiang, Anthony Marini and John Walthausen and has been invited to perform with Pandinus Imperator, Il Botto Forte and the Zürcher Barockorchester. Most recently, Lillian launched a new orchestre, Oasis of Horror, dedicated to juxtaposing the music of Bach with contemporary art. Her solo repertoire spans from the English Virginalists (Byrd, Bull, Gibbons) to Jean-Philippe Rameau J.S. Bach and Domenico Scarlatti.

Music

Goldberg Variations - J.S Bach
Partitas and Preludes and Fugues - J.S Bach
Sonatas - Domenico Scarlatti
Dances and Fantasias - William Byrd, John Bull and Orlando GIbbons
The French Harpsichord - Louis Couperin, François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau

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