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Byron Schenkman (born 1966) is an American harpsichordist, pianist, music director, and educator. Schenkman has recorded over 30 CDs. He has won numerous awards and accolades for his contributions to the music field. He co-founded the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, serving as Artistic Director. Schenkman currently directs a baroque and classical chamber music concert series, Byron Schenkman & Friends, and performs as a recitalist and concert soloist. He also performs with chamber music ensembles, and is a teacher and lecturer.

Early years
Byron Schenkman grew up in a musical family on a farm in Lafayette, Indiana. He graduated from the New England Conservatory, where he was a student of John Gibbons. He studied with Elisabeth Wright and Edward Auer at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and earned a Master of Music degree with Honors in Performance. In 1990 he earned a Performer’s Certificate in Harpsichord from Indiana University School of Music. In 1991 Schenkman was a finalist in the Cambridge Society for Early Music's International Mozart Competition.

Career
Byron Schenkman launched his career as a harpsichordist and fortepianist. He has recorded dozens of highly praised albums, and has made numerous solo and concerto appearances throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In 1999 he won the Cambridge Society for Early Music's Erwin Bodky Award, given "for outstanding achievement in the field of early music". In 2004 Schenkman was awarded a Partners of the Americas travel grant which enabled him to perform and teach in Chile. In 2006 Schenkman was voted "Best Classical Instrumentalist" by the readers of the Seattle Weekly newspaper.

Byron Schenkman collaborates extensively with baroque violinist Ingrid Matthews. In 1994 they co-founded Seattle Baroque Orchestra. He served as its Artistic Director from 1994 through 2004, and again as co-director from 2010 to 2013. He also performs with various chamber ensembles and tours internationally with his contemporaries. He performs as a guest artist with many of the finest chamber music ensembles in North America. His live performances at the Boston Early Music Festival have been compared with those of Vladimir Horowitz and Jimi Hendrix. He was reviewed in the Boston Globe as "a superb and imaginative instrumentalist".

Byron Schenkman's debut recital on modern piano was given in 2001 at Town Hall Seattle in Seattle and he has subsequently been an active piano recitalist and recording artist. Schenkman made his New York recital debut playing the modern piano in 2009. Byron Schenkman’s playing has been described as "dazzling" in American Record Guide, and listed in the Chicago Tribune as a favorite recording of 2000, for "stylish, invigorating performances".

Schenkman performs chamber music as a member of the new baroque music ensemble, Gut Reaction, which explores baroque music on period instruments with gut strings.

Schenkman teaches music history at Seattle University, where he is a member of the Fine Arts Faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of the Early Music Faculty at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where he started teaching in 2005; he now teaches harpsichord, piano, and music history. In 2012 Schenkman served as visiting instructor of fortepiano and harpsichord at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Schenkman gives master classes on 18th-century performance, informal lecture-recitals, and pre-concert talks. He also teaches harpsichord master classes, serves artistic residencies, and teaches music history at many prestigious music festivals and universities.

His principal harpsichord was built by Craig Tomlinson in 2013.

Solo recordings

 * Johann Kaspar Kerll: Keyboard Suites & Toccata – FOCUS, 1996 ASIN: B000004A7B


 * The Bauyn Manuscript: 17th-century French Harpsichord Music – WILDBOAR [WLBR 9603], 1996


 * Jean-Henry D’ Anglebert – Centaur Records, 1997 [CRC 2435]


 * George Frideric Handel: Harpsichord Variations – Centaur Records, 1997 [CRC 2436]


 * Louis Couperin: Harpsichord Music – Centaur Records, 2001 [CRC 2608]


 * The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book –, With Maxine Eilander, Harp, Centaur Records, 2001 [CRC 2638]


 * Jacques Duphly: Second Livre de Pieces de Clavecin – Centaur Records, 2002 [CRC 2714]


 * Joseph Haydn: Sonatas for the Harpsichord – Centaur Records, 2002 [CRC 2733]


 * Joseph Haydn: Six Sonatas and an Adagio with Katie Wolfe, violin, – Centaur Records, 2005 [CRC 2733] [CRC 2806]


 * Muzio Clementi – Centaur Records, 2009 [CRC 3078]

Collaborative recordings

 * Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord, Op. 91 – American Baroque, Stephen Schultz, baroque flute; Byron Schenkman, Harpsichord, NAXOS [Catalogue No. 8.553414], 1995


 * Mozart in Mannheim – Zephyrus ensemble; Courtney Westcott, flute; Ingrid Matthews, violin; Shelley Taylor, cello; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord and fortepiano; Dana Maiben, viola; FOCUS [# 945], 1995


 * in Stil Moderno – Ingrid Matthews, violin; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord, WILDBOAR [WLBR 9512], 1995


 * Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Sonates pour le Viollon 1707 – Ingrid Matthews, violin; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord; Margriet Tindemans, viola da gamba, WILDBOAR [WLBR 9601], 1995


 * Jean-Fery Rebel: Sonatas pour le Violin – Ingrid Matthews, violin; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord; Margriet Tindemans, viola da gamba, WILDBOAR [WLBR 9602], 1995


 * Georg Frideric Handel: Tra Le Fiamme – Seattle Baroque, Ellen Hargis, soprano, WILDBOAR [WLBR 9604], 1996


 * Andrea Falconieri – Ingrid Matthews & Scott Metcalf, violins; Emily Walhout, viola da gamba; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord, WILDBOAR [WLBR 9605], 1996


 * Marin Marais: Suites en Trio, Pieces de Violes, 4th Livre – Music’s Re-Creation, Byron Schenkman, harpsichord, Centaur Records  [CRC2334], 1997


 * Marin Marias: Pieces en Trio – Musica Pacifica,    VIRGIN Veritas [ZDMB 7243], :  1997


 * J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos – Seattle Baroque, Byron Schenkman, harpsichord, Centaur Records [CRC 2497], 1998


 * Il Giardino Corrupto – Scott Metcalfe & Ingrid Matthews, baroque violins; Emily Walhout, viola da gamba; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord,  WILDBOAR [WLBR 9903], 1999


 * Canzoni da Sonar – Ingrid Matthews, baroque violin; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord, Centaur Records [CRC 2529], : March 2000


 * Francesco Guerini: Cello Sonatas – Sarah Freiberg, baroque cello; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord and fortepiano, Centaur Records [2534], 2000


 * Antonio Vivaldi: Bassoon Concertos – Seattle Baroque [Ingrid Matthews, Music Director; Byron Schenkman, (Artistic Director), Michael McCraw, bassoon, Centaur Records [2538], 1999


 * Alessandro Scarlatti: Concerti Da Camera – Musica Pacifica, Judith Linsenberg, recorders, Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin, Ingrid Matthews, violin; George Thomson, viola; Claire Garabedian, cello; Michael Eagan, flute; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord, DORIAN [DOR 93192], Release date: 01/11/2000


 * Sprezzatura: Virtuoso Music of 17th Century Italy – Ensemble: La Luna, Ingrid Matthews & Scott Metcalf, violins; Emily Walhout, viola da gamba; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord, DORIAN (DOR #93200)  2001


 * Georg Philipp Telemann: Chamber Cantatas & Trio Sonatas – Musica Pacifica ensemble, Judith Linsenberg, recorder; Christine Brandes, Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord, DORIAN [DOR-93239]; 2001


 * Heinrich Biber: Sonatas for Strings – Seattle Baroque, Ingrid Matthews, violin; David Greenberg, violin, Centaur Records [ CRC 2615], 2001


 * Alessandro Scarlatti: Agar et Ismaele Esiliati [The Exile of Hagar and Ishmael] – Seattle Baroque: Ingrid Matthews, Music Director, Byron Schenkman, Artistic Director, with Karina Gauvin, Nathaniel Watson, Melissa Fogarty, Jennifer Lane, Centaur Records [ CRC 2664], Recorded: November 2001


 * Music of J.S. Bach: Sonata in D Major, BWV 1028 – Emily Walhout, viola da gamba; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord, Centaur Records [CRC 2715], 2002


 * J.C. Bach: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Flute – Byron Schenkman, fortepiano; Courtney Westcott, flute;  LOFT Recordings  [LRCD 1045], 2003


 * Wind and Wire: Music of 18th Century Scotland – Chris Norman, Baroque Flutes; Byron Schenkman, Harpsichord, Boxwood Media (824594005223) [BOX 903], 2003


 * The Pachelbel Canon and other Baroque Favorites – Seattle Baroque, LOFT Recordings [LRCD 1019], 2003


 * J. S. Bach: Six Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord – Ingrid Matthews, baroque violin; Byron Schenkman, harpsichord; Independent Release, 2007, ASIN: B00125WBUY, 2-CD set


 * Mozart: Piano Trios – Byron Schenkman, piano; Gabriela Diaz, violin; Alexei Yupanqui Gonzales, cello, Centaur Records [CRC 3031], 2008


 * Russian Dreams Byron Schenkman, harpsichord; Masha Lankovsky, violin, Centaur Records [CRC 3352] 2014


 * Vivaldi: Chamber Works Byron Schenkman, harpsichord; Ingrid Matthews, violin; Nathan Whittaker, cello; John Lenti, theorbo; Tekla Cunningham, violin, Centaur Records [CRC 3307] 2014

Albums available as MP3 download only

 * Meditation: Baroque Music for Relaxation – Various Artists, Centaur Records, 2010


 * The J.S. Bach Exercise Album – Various Artists, Centaur Records, 2013