Richard Stone (musician)
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Richard Stone is an American lutenist, music director, educator and music editor. He performs on
lute A lute ( or ) is any plucked string instrument with a neck (music), neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either fretted or unfretted. More specifically, the term "lu ...
and
theorbo The theorbo is a plucked string instrument of the lute family, with an extended neck that houses the second pegbox. Like a lute, a theorbo has a curved-back sound box with a flat top, typically with one or three sound holes decorated with rose ...
as a soloist and
accompanist Accompaniment is the part (music), musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmony (music), harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece. There are many different styles and types of accompaniment in di ...
; he and Gwyn Roberts co-founded and co-direct Tempesta di Mare, The Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra; his musical editions are published by AR Editions and Prima la Musica; and he lectures and teaches lute, theorbo, continuo and performance practice for singers and instrumentalists at the
Peabody Conservatory The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a private music and dance conservatory and preparatory school in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1857, it became affiliated with Johns Hopkins in 1977. History Philanthropist and ...
of The Johns Hopkins University.


Early life and studies

Richard Stone was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts in 1960. He began
classical guitar The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string (music), string instrument with strings made of catgut, gut or nylon, it is a precursor of the ...
lessons in his hometown with composer Joseph Marchello starting at age 14. He attended the Conservatory of Music at the
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to study guitar with David Starobin and lute with Patrick O’Brien, while being mentored by pianist Seymour Bernstein. In 1984 he was awarded a
Fulbright The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States cultural exchange programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people ...
Lusk Memorial Fellowship to begin theorbo and pursue further lute studies with
Nigel North Nigel North (born 5 June 1954) is an English lutenist, musicologist, and pedagogue. Student days He studied guitar on a scholarship to the junior department of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (1964–70), taking up the lute in 1969, at ...
at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a music school, music and drama school located in the City of London, England. Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz al ...
in London, in which city he began his early professional career. Stone resettled in New York City in 1989, resuming lessons with Patrick O’Brien while receiving mentoring from musician and scholar Paul C. Echols. In 1994 he married recorder player and baroque flutist Gwyn Roberts, and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the two have resided since.


Career

As performer, Stone has continued giving solo lute and theorbo recitals and collaborating in other artists’ and organizations’ projects since the move to Philadelphia. Highlights of these activities include two-seasons performing the complete Bach solo lute suites and engagements as concerto soloist with Apollo’s Fire, Les Idées Heureuses, and the
Handel and Haydn Society The Handel and Haydn Society is an American chorus and period instrument orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. Known colloquially as 'H+H', the organization has been in continual performance since its founding in 1815, the longest serving suc ...
; performances with vocal artists Christine Goerke,
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, Julianne Baird, Christine Brandes, Jeffrey Thomas and Drew Minter; and freelance projects with the
Philadelphia Orchestra The Philadelphia Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra, based in Philadelphia. One of the " Big Five" American orchestras, the orchestra is based at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, where it performs its subscription concerts, n ...
, the
Boston Symphony Orchestra The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston. It is the second-oldest of the five major American symphony orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five (orchestras), Big Five". Founded by Henry Lee Higginson in ...
,
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (founded in 1972) is a classical music chamber orchestra based in New York City. They have won several Grammy Awards, and are known for their collaborative leadership style in which the musicians, not a conductor, i ...
, New York Collegium and the Mark Morris Dance Group. As music director, Stone served as Acting Music Co-Director of NYSBaroque in Ithaca, New York in the 2000–2001 season and has guest-directed projects for other organizations. Afterwards he co-founded the Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Tempesta di Mare, together with Gwyn Roberts, which launched its series in the 2002–2003 season and continues to the present. He and Roberts co-direct the ensemble. As educator, Stone serves on the Conservatory faculty at the
Peabody Institute The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a Private university, private music and dance music school, conservatory and College-preparatory school, preparatory school in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1857, it became affiliat ...
of the
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in Baltimore, Maryland as Professor of Lute and Theorbo, a post he has held since 2007. He was the 2014 Patrick O’Brien Lecturer for the Lute Society of America, focusing on the operation of classical rhetorical principles in lute music of the baroque era. He was guest lecturer at the 2009 forum ''Perspectivas: Simposio sobre renacimiento y barroco'' at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, on approaches to reconstructing music that survives in fragmentary condition. Stone led the baroque ensemble at Swarthmore College from 1999 to 2005 has taught for Amherst Early Music and the Lute Society of America. As music editor, Stone’s edition of the complete Weiss lute concerti, which he reconstructed based on the surviving lute parts, is published by A-R Editions, Middleton, Wisconsin. His editions of orchestral music by
Johann Friedrich Fasch Johann Friedrich Fasch (15 April 1688 – 5 December 1758) was a German violinist and composer. Much of his music is in the Baroque-Classical transitional style known as galant. Life Fasch was born in the town of Buttelstedt, 11 km north of W ...
are published by Prima la Musica, Abroath, Scotland, United Kingdom, and Ortus Musikverlag, Berlin, Germany, has published an edition of music by
Johann Gottlieb Janitsch Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (19 June 1708 – c. 1763) was a German Baroque composer who wrote in the galant style, transitional between the Baroque and Classical periods. Life Janitsch was born in Schweidnitz, Silesia (today Świdnica, Poland) ...
edited by Stone.


Recordings

Stone’s performances with Tempesta di Mare are carried regularly on
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’s ''Performance Today''. Recording and broadcast credits include
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, Chandos, Lyrichord, PGM, Musical Heritage, Polygram, Vienna Modern Masters, ATMA, Eklecta, Centaur, Bis, Chesky,
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, Czech Radio 3-Vltava and the
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.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Richard Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Musicians from Philadelphia American male singers American lutenists Theorbists