By the age of sixteen I was an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto. I was introduced to the harpsichord and Fenton House by Thurston Dart, who had just moved to London, to gamba making by Juliet Beamont of Cambridge, and to the baroque violin by Alice Harnoncourt (all too briefly).
For a variety of reasons, I took time out from a music career to raise five wonderful children: a minister, a teacher, a scientist, a guitar maker and a writer. When they were grown up, I cashed in my pension and returned to my music.
Originally, I planned to record all copyright-free works for the harpsichord in General MIDI format for free distribution on the Internet. If you enjoy the trip, who cares if you get there! But, something happened on the way - the trip got nasty, so I stopped.
I was, to the best of my knowledge, the first harpsichord player to post serious recordings on the internet, beginning with Usenet, then Geocities, then on. Originally, I posted as "Harpsichordist to the Internet", however that conceit is long outdated, especially since the rise of MP3 and Youtube.
I thank the Internet sites that have carried my recordings over the years. Two still survive:
The Classical Music Archive:
Pierre Schwab was one of my earliest supporters on the internet.
Dave's J.S.Bach Page:
Bach only, of course. I thank Dave for his support over the years.
It's hard today to realize how expensive server space was when I started; a decade later, I still had only 1 megabyte on Geocities! Now that I have space, I can present MP3's of my Scarlatti recordings.
aged 3, 16, and while I was doing the Bach recordings