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Peter Sykes is one of the most distinguished and versatile keyboard artists performing today. His playing has variously been called “compelling and moving,” “magnificent and revelatory,” and “bold, imaginative, and amazingly accurate.”
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American harpsichordist and organist. Biography, reviews, concert schedule, discography, photo album.
Peter Sykes is a core faculty member and principal instructor of harpsichord at the Historical Performance Department of the Juilliard School in New York City, a member of the organ and harpsichord faculty at the University of Michigan, and teaches organ and harpsichord at Boston University.
Title Lecturer in Music, Historical Performance. Office CFA 418. Email psykes@bu.edu. Phone 617-358-2786. Peter Sykes ‘ playing has variously been called “compelling and moving,” “magnificent and revelatory,” and “bold, imaginative, and amazingly accurate.”.
In March 2004 he was given the honor of performing the dedication recital on the newly restored 1800 Tannenberg two-manual organ in Old Salem, North Carolina, an event featured on the nationally broadcast television show “CBS Sunday Morning.”
He performs extensively in recital and has made ten solo recordings of organ and harpsichord repertoire ranging from Buxtehude, Couperin and Bach to Reger and Hindemith and his acclaimed organ transcription of Holst’s “The Planets.”
Peter Sykes is Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Historical Performance Department at Boston University, where he teaches organ, harpsichord, performance practice, and continuo realization. He is also a member of the faculty of the Longy School of Music and Music Director of First Church in Cambridge.
