{ "ok" : true, "artist" : { "name" : "Katherine Roberts Perl", "page" : "kperl", "description" : "Bach on the harpsichord - poetic and expressive", "location" : "CA, USA", "bio" : "Katherine Roberts Perl began her harpsichord studies at the age of 14 and went on to study music at Los Angeles City College, Immaculate Heart College, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she studied intensively with Laurette Goldberg and received her Master's Degree harpsichord performance. Since that time Perl has developed both a unique teaching and playing style for which she has become well known-one that celebrates the dynamic and expressive aspects of the harpsichord and is influenced by the American idioms of blues and jazz.\n\nWhile conventional ideas of the harpsichord hold that it does not allow for variation in volume, Perl's powerful playing overturns this perception, and mines the expressive capacity of the instrument. Her innovative approach has been termed \"sound sculpture.\"\n\nMs. Perl's first recording, Pieces de Clavecin, Music of Louis Couperin was nominated for Best Baroque Recording of French music in 1993, in Paris. The second recording, Music of Jacques Duphly, was released in 1998 on the Dorian label and most recently Perl's independent recording of four of Bach's French Suites has been made available on Magnatune. Bach's classic composition for harpsichord, The Well-Tempered Clavier, has now become the center of Perl's artistic attention and future recordings and releases are in the works.\n\nIn addition to her performing, teaching, and recording activities, Katherine Roberts Perl is an esteemed harpsichord technician, serving the Bay Area. She and her husband Mark produce a concert series/salon in their home in San Francisco called Chattanooga Chamber Music, which consists of four live music performances every fall and spring.\n\n\"I consider myself extremely fortunate that my life thus far has been contemporary with many great masters,\" says Perl, \"who have shown the way for practitioners of early music performance in my own generation and the next: musicians such as Gustav Leonhardt, the Kuijken brothers and Hopkinson Smith, to name a few.\" She adds, \"My mission in life is to play the music of Bach, Couperin and others on the harpsichord with clarity and grace, and to teach others what it takes to do so. Meaningful expression is an elusive thing, and so wondrous when it is achieved.\"\n\nAdditional Praise for Katherine Roberts Perl:\n\n\"The key to Roberts' success is her fluent but precise rhythmic sense. She has a way of springing the rhythm, drawing out the line, waiting until the last possible moment before attacking a note without damaging the onward flow in the slightest. Strength and delicacy, nuance and bite seemed available in abundance...a fluent but precise rhythmic sense.\" -Charles Shere, Oakland Tribune\n\n\"She genuinely captured the essence of accurate, sensitive and stylistic French keyboard playing...the audience was enraptured...passion and fire.\" -Ruta Bloomfield, Iowa city", "photo" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/img/kperl.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/kperl/", "albums" : [{ "sku" : "kperl-clavier3", "name" : "Vol 1 - Well Tempered Clavier Book 2 'Flat Keys'", "artist" : { "name" : "Katherine Roberts Perl", "page" : "kperl" }, "release_date" : "2009-03-07", "genres" : ["Classical","Baroque","Instrumental"], "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Katherine%20Roberts%20Perl/Vol%201%20-%20Well%20Tempered%20Clavier%20Book%202%20'Flat%20Keys'/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/kperl-clavier3/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/kperl-clavier3", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=kperl-clavier3" },{ "sku" : "kperl-clavier1", "name" : "Vol 1 - Well Tempered Clavier Book 2 'Sharp Keys'", "artist" : { "name" : "Katherine Roberts Perl", "page" : "kperl" }, "release_date" : "2008-04-08", "genres" : ["Classical","Baroque","Instrumental"], "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Katherine%20Roberts%20Perl/Vol%201%20-%20Well%20Tempered%20Clavier%20Book%202%20'Sharp%20Keys'/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/kperl-clavier1/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/kperl-clavier1", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=kperl-clavier1" },{ "sku" : "kperl-clavier2", "name" : "Vol 2 - Well Tempered Clavier Book 2 'Sharp Keys'", "artist" : { "name" : "Katherine Roberts Perl", "page" : "kperl" }, "release_date" : "2008-04-08", "genres" : ["Classical","Baroque","Instrumental"], "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Katherine%20Roberts%20Perl/Vol%202%20-%20Well%20Tempered%20Clavier%20Book%202%20'Sharp%20Keys'/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/kperl-clavier2/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/kperl-clavier2", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=kperl-clavier2" },{ "sku" : "kperl-french", "name" : "JS Bach French Suites", "artist" : { "name" : "Katherine Roberts Perl", "page" : "kperl" }, "release_date" : "2006-07-31", "genres" : ["Classical","Baroque","Instrumental"], "cover" : "https://magnatune.com/music/Katherine%20Roberts%20Perl/JS%20Bach%20French%20Suites/cover_400.jpg", "web_url" : "https://magnatune.com/artists/albums/kperl-french/", "api_url" : "https://magnatune.com/api/albums/kperl-french", "buy_url" : "https://magnatune.com/buy/album?sku=kperl-french" }] }, "license" : { "music_license" : "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 1.0)", "music_license_url" : "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/", "listening" : "Stream the free previews, or buy an album for $8 to download it in MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, OGG or WAV. 100% of the price goes to the musician.", "non_commercial" : "Non-commercial projects may use the music under CC BY-NC-SA 1.0: credit the artist and Magnatune, and share alike.", "projects" : "Magnatune members may use any Magnatune music in their projects, commercial or not (videos, films, podcasts, games, apps, websites, adverts), including work for clients, under the Magnatune Project Licence. Projects released while a member stay licensed for good; new projects need an active membership. Credit is required. TV or radio broadcast, cinema, and background music in shops, restaurants or on-hold lines are not included: license those from the musician. Membership: $10/month, $99/year or $299 lifetime; agents can buy one themselves with MPP at /api/member-pass ($10 month, $99 year, $299 lifetime, one-off).", "projects_status" : "available", "projects_signup" : "https://magnatune.com/member/signup", "details" : "https://magnatune.com/info/licensing", "how_to_credit" : "Name the artist and \"Magnatune\", with a link to the album's web_url." } }