Ivars taurins biography of rory

          An active performer, Ivars Taurins is also a passionate lecturer and teacher....

          Ivars Taurins, conductor.

        1. Ivars Taurins, conductor.
        2. ' Within the ensemble were Kenny and Susan playing the baroque oboe and bassoon, and principal violist Ivars Taurins.
        3. An active performer, Ivars Taurins is also a passionate lecturer and teacher.
        4. Listen to George Frideric Handel's Messiah HWV 56, performed by Rubén Dubrovsky, Michael Schade, Christian Immler, Gaia Petrone, Hanna Herfurtner.
        5. Ivars Taurins leads the ensembles.

          6. IVARS TAURINS, AKA MR. HANDEL, DISCUSSES HISTORICALLY-INFORMED PERFORMANCE, A LIFE IN MUSIC, THE TAFELMUSIK CHAMBER CHOIR ON ITS 35TH ANNIVERSARY, AND THE TAFELMUSIK ANNUAL SING-ALONG MESSIAH: A REVIEWER’S INTERVIEW WITH PEOPLE IN THE ARTS

          Photos by Gary Beechey

          JAMES STRECKER: If you were asked for 50 words for an encyclopedia to summarize what you do, what would you say?

          IVARS TAURINS: I guess I’d have to open with: an “HIP” (historically-informed performance) conductor, enjoying a career in which I’m equally comfortable in both orchestral and choral repertoire, with an added “specialist” interest in 17th c.

          to early 19th c. repertoire (i.e. baroque and classical).

          The “HIP” aspect is, though, for me the credo of my musical expression in all music, whether I’m conducting Purcell or Poulenc, Bach or Brahms. I find great satisfaction in learning how to appreciate and experience something on its own terms, rather than through a translation that fits my own comfort zone of famil