Paolo Bordignon, harpsichord
Harpsichordist Paolo Bordignon appears this season with Camerata Pacifica, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, The Knights, and Mark Morris Dance Group, and as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra. He has recently performed with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, and the All-Star Orchestra.
Festival appearances include Aspen, Bard, Bay Chamber, Bridgehampton, Jackson Hole, Palm Beach, Parlance, and Vail. He has performed on NBC, CBS, CNN, NPR, PBS Great Performances, CBC, and on Korean and Japanese national television.
He has collaborated with Sir James Galway, Itzhak Perlman, Reinhard Goebel, Paul Hillier, Bobby McFerrin, Midori, Renée Fleming, and Wynton Marsalis. For the inauguration of Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, he gave the east coast première of Philip Glass’s Concerto for Harpsichord and Orchestra.
He is Organist and Choirmaster of Saint Bartholomew’s Church, Park Avenue, and has performed organ recitals at venues such as Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue (New York) and Saint-Eustache (Paris). He has been a frequent recitalist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including a 10-recital residency.
Born in Toronto, Mr. Bordignon attended St. Michael’s Choir School before studying at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He is an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists. He earned Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School.