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About Barnaby Ralph
- Barnaby Ralph (born 14 October 1969) is a professional virtuoso recorder player.
- He studied with a number of teachers, including Rosalind Kelly and John Martin in Australia and Hans Maria Kneihs in Vienna.
- In 2000, he was awarded the Postgraduate Association Medal of Excellence as the top Masters graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music.
- Ralph has appeared worldwide on the concert stage as a soloist, in chamber recitals and with orchestras, as well as on radio and television.
- His ongoing partnership with the Belgian harpsichordist Huguette Brassine has produced a recording of the sonatas of Francesco Barsanti that was released internationally by Naxos Records in 2006 to favourable reviews. Ralph has performed music in a wide range of styles, from medieval and baroque through to the post-avant garde.
- He has had contemporary works written for him by a number of well-known composers, including Betty Beath, Masturneh Nazarian and Anika Mittendorf.
- His recording of Beath’s ‘Night Song’ appears on the disc 'American Dream'.
- Ralph is also active as a lecturer, teacher, musical instrument maker and musicologist.
- He is currently living and performing in Tokyo, Japan, where he is a Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at Seikei University.
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