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The German harpsichordist, fortepianist and musicologist, Tilman Skowroneck, has his performance studies from 1979 to 1987 and 1999. In 1986 he obtained his Teaching degree from Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. He studied with Bob van Asperen (1979), Anneke Uittenbosch (1980-1983), Ton Koopman and Tini Mathot (1984-1986). In 1986-1987 he srtudied harpsichord studies with Gustav Leonhardt at Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. In fall 1999 he had fortepiano and performance practice studies with Malcolm Bilson at Cornell University. In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Ph.D.
Tilman Skowroneck has been a freelance continuo and solo performance since 1984. He gives solo recitals, chamber music performances, and continuo performance on historical harpsichord, virginal, organ, and fortepiano, repertoire ranging from Baroque to Viennese Classical. Beginning in 1991, he held a position with the Baroque ensemble Corona Artis based in Göteborg (1991 to 2006: full-time until 1997; then half-time until December 2006), performing a wide variety of continuo and solo literature in all Baroque styles and in the earlier Classical style. Corona Artis became a freelance ensemble in January 2007. He is specialized in solo performance on the harpsichord and continuo playing. He also has a special interest in the early piano, its construction and its repertoire. He gave harpsichord and organ continuo and harpsichord and fortepiano solo performance in projects covering repertoire from early Baroque to L.v. Beethoven. Three to five tours annually in West Sweden. Collaboration with Paul O'Dette, Gottfried von der Goltz, Monica Huggett, Andrew Lawrence-King, Wieland Kuijken, Andrew Manze and Jaap Schröder. Numerous productions for Sveriges Radio and Sveriges Television.
Tilman Skowroneck had his musicological studies from 1997 to 2007: 1997-1998 Pre-doctoral course (C-kurs), Department of Musicology, Göteborg University; Thesis, “Keyboard Instruments of the Young Beethoven”; 2007 Ph.D., Department of Musicology, Göteborg University, Dissertation, “Beethoven the Pianist: Biographical, organological and performance-practical aspects of his years as a public performer.” His Ph.D. dissertation combined historical and organological analysis to develop some guidelines for performing L.v. Beethoven's early keyboard works. His book Beethoven the Pianist was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. He had his Postdoctoral research from 2009 to 2011 at University of Southampton; sponsored by the Swedish Research Council. Project title “Stability and change in Early Romantic Viennese piano culture.” His present research focuses on progressive and conservative influences on the development of Viennese pianos after 1800.
Tilman Skowroneck is senior lecturer of musical performance at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg since 2007. As far as time permits, he also accepts commissions as a translator and harpsichord technician. In 2016 he was appointed associate researcher at the Orpheus institute in Ghent, Belgium, in Tom Beghin’s ongoing research cluster “Declassifying the Classics”. For the past seven years, he has been the editor of the e-newsletter of the Westfield Center for historical keyboard studies. After twice having been guest editor of the peer-reviewed journal Keyboard Perspectives (vols. VI/2013 and VIII/2015), he is now sharing the editorship with Roger Moseley. |
