BUTTERFIELD, ADRIAN

Adrian Butterfield is now established as one of the most versatile period-instrument musicians of his generation in Britain and abroad, working as a conductor and violinist-director with both modern and period-instrument orchestras, and as a concerto soloist, chamber musician and teacher. He is Musical Director of the Tilford Bach Festival and Associate Director of the London Handel Festival and directs ensembles such as the London Handel Orchestra, the Hanover Band and the Theatre of Early Music, Montreal across Europe and North America. Solo recordings include CPE Bach Sonatas (ATMA), Bach’s Concerto for oboe and violin with John Abberger (Analekta) and Handel’s Complete Violin Sonatas (Somm).  He leads the London Handel Players, whose two recent recordings, of Handel’s Op. 5 Trio Sonatas and “Handel at Home” (Somm) have been highly acclaimed and also the Revolutionary Drawing Room, an ensemble which specialises in classical and romantic music on period instruments. He is Professor of Baroque Violin at the Royal College of Music in London and teaches on the Aestas Musica Baroque Course in Croatia and also works regularly with the Southbank Sinfonia. He has conducted Bach’s B minor Mass, Handel’s La Resurrezione, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima e Corpo and Rameau’s Pigmalion, and his concerto performances include numerous baroque works, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante and A major Concerto, Beethoven’s Violin and Triple Concertos and Vaughan Williams’s Concerto Accademico.

Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
LECLAIR, J.-M.: Violin Sonatas, Op. 1, Nos. 1-4 (Butterfield, McGillivray, Cummings)	8.570888
LECLAIR, J.-M.: Violin Sonatas, Op. 1, Nos. 5-8 (Butterfield, McGillivray, Cummings)	8.570889
LECLAIR, J.-M.: Violin Sonatas, Op. 1, Nos. 9-12 (Butterfield, McGillivray, Cummings)	8.570890