Dr David Ponsford

Dr David Ponsford, MA, PhD, FRCO, ARCM, is both a scholar and a professional organist and harpsichordist and is an authority on keyboard music of the 17th and 18th centuries. An exhibitioner at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he studied organ with Peter Hurford, Lionel Rogg and Piet Kee and harpsichord with Kenneth Gilbert and Gustav Leonhardt. He was awarded a PhD at Cardiff University where he is now associate lecturer in performance practice. He has recorded for ASV, Gaudeamus, Hyperion, Riverrun, NPC and Guild, and in 2004 was awarded a Leverhume Research Fellowship. In teaching and performing, he aims to combine executant skills with intellectual understanding, to bring the music alive with authority and meaning. He is the author of French organ music in the Reign of Louis XIV (Cambridge University Press, 2011).