David Yearsley, organ
Marty Davids, baroque violin

The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center presents in recital David Yearsley, organ and Marty Davids, baroque violin.

About David Yearsley:

Active as a performer on organ, clavichord, harpsichord, and fortepiano in North America and Europe, David Yearsley was educated at Harvard College and Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D. in Musicology in 1994. That same year he became the only musician ever to win all major prizes at the Bruges Early Music Festival. Mr. Yearsley's most recent CD (from Musica Omnia) is All Your Cares Beguile: Songs and Sonatas from Baroque London with violinist Martin Davids; his other recordings of 17th- and 18th-century organ music are available on the Loft label. Mr. Yearsley has written numerous articles on European musical culture in the 17th and 18th centuries, and his work has appeared in leading scholarly journals such as the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music & Letters, Early Music and Eighteenth-Century Music. His widely-praised book, Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint came out in 2002 from Cambridge University Press. His second book Bach's Feet is forthcoming, also from Cambridge. Mr. Yearsley has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin and a Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellow at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. For more than fifteen years he has been music critic for America's last newspaper, the Anderson Valley Advertiser; his weekly on-line column can be read at Counterpunch.org. A member of the pioneering synthesizer trio, Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, he teaches at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York.