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Skip Sempé
Performer (viola da gamba)
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Skip Sempé, virtuoso harpsichordist and founder of Capriccio Stravagante, is at the
forefront of today’s musical personalities in Renaissance and Baroque repertoire. He
has created a depth of interpretive wisdom representing an accomplishment unique in
diversity and richness, through an authoritative knowledge of performance tradition
both historical and in the twentieth century.
As a solo performer, Sempé has focused on developing a superb sense of idiomatic
harpsichord touch and a finely tuned ear for achieving variation in the instrument’s
sonority. He is known particularly for his interpretations of the French
harpsichordists, for his adventurous and ground-breaking Bach and Scarlatti, and for
the earlier keyboard repertoire of Byrd and his contemporaries. Skip Sempé combines the
rare synthesis of uncompromising musical moderator and admired virtuoso performer.
His elegant mastery of basso continuo accompaniment has created a new and dynamic
departure in the field of virtuoso vocal and instrumental teamwork. The magical effect
of supple and sonorous accompaniment created by Skip Sempé and the basso continuo group
of Capriccio Stravagante led to the formation of the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance
Orchestra and Capriccio Stravagante Opera.
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