Andreas Staier & Concerto Köln

Andreas Staier is one of the foremost authentic-instrument keyboard players in the classical music world. Staier was born in 1955 in G+¦ttingen. His early training was on standard piano. Courses in realizing continuo parts in Baroque music at the Hanover Conservatory led him to study harpsichord, which requires a considerably different technique of touch. This study drew him into a repertory not frequently played on piano, going back to the English composers for the virginal. He continued studies in Amsterdam. His primary teachers in harpsichord and early music were Gustav Le...