Players & Singers

Joseph McHardy
Keyboards

Joseph McHardy was born in Dundee in 1981. After graduating in Music from the University of Edinburgh in 2002, he moved to London to study harpsichord at the Royal Academy of Music. His professors there included Laurence Cummings, Carole Cerasi, Terence Charlston and Virginia Black and he graduated with Distinction in July 2004. Joseph plays regularly with La Serenissima and the London Handel Orchestra and will begin working with the King's Consort in October 2005. In the world of opera, Joseph has recently returned from Berlin, where he was assistant to Paul McCreesh in Komische Oper Berlin's production of Handel Alcina. Other recent projects include assisting in Birmingham Opera's Monteverdi Il Ritorno d'Ulisse, a tour of Vivaldi's Music for the Pieta with La Serenissima and a return to Berlin for the April revival of Handel Alcina. Joseph is also organist of Christ Church, Chelsea.