A versatile performer on keyboards ancient and modern, David Yearsley’s recordings include J. S. Bach’s organ trio sonatas, a musical portrait of J. S. Bach and three of his sons, Songs and Sonatas from Baroque London (with violinist Martin Davids), and projects with the pioneering synthesizer trio Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company. David is author of the widely praised Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Bach’s Feet: the Organ Pedals in European Culture (Cambridge, 2012), which received the Ogasapian Book Award from the Organ Historical Society. Sex, Death and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks, named one of the best books on music for 2019 by the Financial Times. His many honors as an organist include all major prizes at the Bruges Early Music Festival. He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin, a Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellow at the University of Gothenburg, and recipient of an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. For more than thirty years, David has been music critic for the essential country broadsheet the Anderson Valley Advertiser, America’s last newspaper; his weekly column on topics ranging from Bach to Beyoncé can also be read at counterpunch.org. He teaches at Cornell University where he is the Herbert Gussman Professor of Music.
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