10 Facts About Simon Standage

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Simon Andrew Thomas Standage was born on 8 November 1941 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and is an English violinist and conductor best known for playing and conducting music of the baroque and classical eras on original instruments.

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2.

Simon Standage studied music at King's College, Cambridge, following which he spent four years in the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra under Szymon Goldberg.

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3.

Simon Standage won a Harkness Fellowship to study with Ivan Galamian in New York City from 1967 to 1969.

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4.

Simon Standage was first violinist of The English Concert from 1972 to 1991.

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5.

Simon Standage was the first concertino violin in the concerti grossi of Corelli, Handel and others.

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6.

Simon Standage played regularly with The Academy of Ancient Music throughout the 1980s, often as first violin, and recorded Vivaldi's op.

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7.

Simon Standage later became associate director of the AAM from 1991 to 1995.

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8.

Simon Standage has made regular collaboration with Collegium Musicum Telemann in Osaka and Haydn Sinfonietta in Vienna.

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9.

Simon Standage plays in period-instrument chamber group The Music Collection with Susan Alexander-Max and Jennifer Ward Clarke.

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10.

Simon Standage is president of the Early music society, Music by the Commons, based in Wimbledon, South West London.

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