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Frances Conover Fitch
has toured extensively in North America and Europe, and recorded for Swiss, German, Dutch, and French National Radio as well
as for the BBC and NPR. Her ensemble, Concerto Castello, won critical acclaim as well an Honorable Mention in the Deutsche
Schallplatten Preis of 1983.Widely sought-after as a particularly sensitive and inventive continuo player, she has worked
with ensembles such as NYS Baroque, Cantata Singers, Emmanuel Music, Aston Magna, Boston Cecilia, Handel and Haydn Society,
Concerto Palatino, the Boston Camerata and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum.
Ms. Fitch has presented solo recitals at the Smithsonian Institution, the American Church in Paris, and
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and has participated in major music festivals, including the Festival d'Art Lyrique/Aix-en-Provence,
Pepsico Summerfare, Tanglewood, Boston Early Music Festival, Tage Alter Musik (Regensburg), the Castle Hill Festival and the
Festival de Musica Antigua in Mexico City, where she also gave master classes at the National Conservatory. She has recordings on the EMI-Reflexe, Titanic, Harmonia Mundi, Koch International and Wild Boar labels,
including her solo CD: “O Ye Tender Babes: English Virginal Music” (Wildboar 9507).
Formerly on the faculty at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and at Wellesley College, she now teaches at The New England Conservatory of Music , Tufts University and at the Longy School of Music , where she is Chair of the Early Music Department and instructor in harpsichord, organ, chamber music, figured bass improvisation
and bibliographic research. Ms. Fitch has degrees from Bard College and New England
Conservatory, and did post-graduate work at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam, where
she studied with Gustav Leonhardt and Veronika Hampe.
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