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Geoffrey Govier graduated from the Royal College of Music with first-class honours in 1983, before concentrating on the fortepiano. He returned to the college to specialize in early piano, taking a Masters’ degree the in 1987/8 and completed his doctorate at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 2003. His teachers have included Melvyn Tan in London, Stanley Hoogland in Amsterdam and Malcom Bilson in the United States. He has performed widely internationally, recorded eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century music as fortepianist on CD (Olympia, EMI and Hyperion), and his introduction to Hummel’s Ausführliche theoretisch-praktische Asweisung zum Piano-Forte-Spiel (1828) was published in 1998 (Tokyo: Sinfonia). |
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