Brian Pritchard
Position
- Adjunct Associate Professor
Qualifications
Ph D (Birm), MA (Hons), A Mus TCL
Room
108, Music building
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364-2987 ext 7634, or +64 3 366-7001
Internal Phone: 7634
brian.pritchard@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
School of Music
University of Canterbury,
Private Bag 4800,
Christchurch,
New Zealand
Background
Brian Pritchard, has a strong interest in the documentation of New Zealand's music past and established (in 1984) and edits the Canterbury Series of Bibliographies, Catalogues and Source Documents in Music. In 1972 he was a founding member of the New Zealand branch of the International Association of Music Libraries and has been variously president and editor of the Branch’s journal Crescendo. In 2001 he awarded honorary life membership for “valued service to music librarianship in New Zealand.”
He has worked extensively on the Italian composer Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) and has prepared numerous editions of sacred and secular music of the late baroque for publication and for performance and recording by specialist groups in England, Europe and in the United States. His writings appear in various international musicological journals and he has contributed to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, and the Dictionary of National Biography.
In 2006, performances of the music of Antonio Caldara (1670 –1736) include:
- Motets of 1715 Norg Consort, Norg, The Netherlands, 10 February.
- Maddalena a piedi di Cristo (excerpts) “Passiespel” Ouldenburg, Belgium,
- 9, 12 and 14 April. www.passiespel.be
- La passione di Signor nostro Jesu Cristo (excerpts) Ensemble Hark! Switzerland: Köniz BE, 7 April; Reussbühl LU, 9 April; Küsnacht ZH,11 April. www.hark.ch
- La Medea (cantata) Jay Carter (counter-tenor) and the Kingsbury Ensemble, St. Louis (Missouri) 30 April
- Amarilli vezzosa (Christmas cantata for SAA and strings); Mercury Baroque, Houston, USA, 15 December.
- Amarilli vezzosa (Christmas cantata for SAA and strings); Bampton Classical Opera, Bampton, England , 21 December.
Performances in 2007
- Antonio Caldara: Oratorio: “Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo” (dir. Renè Jacobs) Concerto Vocale, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Paris. 22 October, 2007
- Antonio Caldara: “Vaticini di pace” Latinitas Nostra, Athens. 20 and 21 December, 2007
Performances in 2008
- Antonio Caldara: “Missa Commemorationis” Mercury Baroque, Les Voix Baroques, Houston, USA. 28 March, 2008
- Antonio Caldara: “Six Offertoria and Hymnus” Kammerchor und das Ensemble der Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität, Franziskanerkirche, Vienna. 8 May, 2008
- Antonio Caldara: "Vaticini di pace” Sydney Consort. St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Eaton Street, Balmain, Sydney, Australia.
19 December, 2008
Performances in 2009
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Antonio Caldara: "I disingannati" (opera, 1729) ed. Brian W Pritchard.
Deutsches Nationaltheater & Staatskapelle Weimar, Weimar, 27 Nov, 5, 17, 26, Dec. 2009 -
Antonio Caldara: Cantata di Natale "Vaticini di pace" (Christmas cantata) ed. Brian W Pritchard. The Sydney Consort, St Augustine's Church,
Balmain, Sydney, Australia, 27 November, 2009
Performances in 2010
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Antonio Caldara: "Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo" (oratorio) ed. Brian W Pritchard. Accademia Bizantina, Teatro Arriga, Bilbao, Spain, 26 March 2010; Misteria Paschalia Festival, Krakow, Poland, 30 March 2010.
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Antonio Caldara: "Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo" (oratorio) ed. Brian W Pritchard. Ensemble Divino sospiro, Lisbon, Portugal, 1 April 2010.
Research
For a full list of publications please see Brian's UC Research Profile