CONSTABLE, JOHN John Constable was born in London and studied with Harold Craxton at the Royal Academy of Music, of which he
is a Fellow. He began his career on the music staff of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. He has made a great many
recital records of songs and chamber music with leading singers and players, and has accompanied in Europe, Japan
and the United States, at the Musikverein Vienna, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Prague Spring Festival, the
Ferenc Liszt Academy Budapest, the Metropolitan Museum New York, Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center, Suntory
Hall Tokyo, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the opera houses of Paris, Brussels, Cologne and Geneva.
He has given recitals in many London festivals. As a harpsichordist John Constable has recorded for leading record
companies, and has performed and recorded concertos with a number of distinguished conductors. He has played
and directed concertos with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group for the BBC and with the London
Sinfonietta in Barcelona, and taken part in important recordings of Mozart operas. He has also recorded with the
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Polish Chamber Orchestra and
the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra. He has been the principal pianist of the London Sinfonietta since its
formation and is also principal harpsichordist of the Academy of St Martin-in-the Fields. He is a professor at the
Royal College of Music, London.
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