PODA is excited to present a concert with local wizard Colin Tilney, April 25th, 2013. "Music on its own terms" will be profound and witty harpsichord music by Scarlatti and Bach.

Colin Tilney is an internationally known interpreter of music for harpsichord, clavichord and fortepiano. Among his more that thirty recordings and both books of Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier; the seven Bach toccatas and the six English Suites; recitals of Frescobaldi, the English virginalists and Purcell; several records of Scarlatti; and a four-concerto disc for CBC that contrasts eighteenth- and twentieth-century music. Colin Tilney lives in Victoria.

Colin Tilney’s repertoire covers all the standard masterpieces written for early keyboard instruments. In addition, he has premiered a number of modern works for harpsichord, including Henze’s Lucy Escott variations, commissioned others by Priaulx Rainier and Elisabeth Lutyens and was chosen for the important harpsichord part in the definitive CBS recording of Stravinsky’s Rake’s Progress, conducted by the composer. While he was in Toronto (1979-2002), he founded the chamber group, Les Coucous Bénévoles, which presents music by Baroque Classical and contemporary writers the Coucous have just completed a successful short tour and central Canada and will be playing in the fortepiano quartets of C.P.E.Bach in Victoria in late November.

Before deciding to specialize in Early Music, Colin Tilney worked in the London as an accompanist and repetiteur, experiences that over the years have turned into a love of the early piano of Mozart and Haydn. Recently he has begun recording fortepiano for the Toronto company Doremi, which has released four discs of Mozart played on Colin Tilney’s own copy of and instrument by Anton Walter, Mozart’s preferred piano builder. A clavichord disc of sonatas by Emanuel Bach is to follow next spring.

Proceeds from this event will be used to purchase musical instruments and equipment for a band in Bwera, Uganda. The income from this band pays the teachers at the local secondary school, allowing the students to attend for free. For more information about this concert and to purchase tickets please contact Valerie Murray at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or phone Peter Hunt at 250.516.6509.

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