Biography

JOYCE LINDORFF is Professor of Keyboard Studies at the Boyer College of Music and
Dance at Temple University, Philadelphia, where she has taught historical keyboards
((harpsichord, fortepiano, clavichord and early organ), modern piano, performance practice,
keyboard literature and chamber music for the past 20 years. She has concertized in the US,
Europe, Russia, Japan and China, receiving solo recitalist awards from the Pro Musicis
Foundation (France) and National Endowment for the Arts. Ensemble performances include
Hesperus, Tempesta di Mare, Newberry Consort, Charbonnier Viol Ensemble, and Waverly
Consort. Based in New York for many years, she performed as keyboardist with the New
York Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and New York Chamber Symphony. The New
York Times wrote of a solo recital, “brilliant music, brilliantly played,” and Continuo
Magazine called her CD of Poglietti’s Rossignolo “absolutely breath-taking!”
Lindorff earned degrees at Sarah Lawrence College (BA), University of Southern California
(MM), and The Juilliard School (DMA) as a pupil of Albert Fuller (harpsichord) and Barry S.
Brook (musicology). She began her teaching career at Cornell University as a Mellon Fellow,
followed by five years on the faculty of Hong Kong Baptist University, and has held
Fulbright Professorships in Taiwan and China. She has been honorary professor at the
Shanghai Conservatory since 1992 and in 2015 was named honorary professor at the China
Conservatory, Beijing. Her research on European music in 17th
and 18th-century China,
begun during her 7-year residence in Asia, has been published in US, European and Chinese
books and journals. She has recorded for Titanic, Centaur, CRI, Serenus, Digitech, and
BCM&D, which published her CD, “Music from the Harpsichord Miscellany,” recorded on
Colonial Williamsburg’s 1758 Kirckman. Paladino Music (Vienna) recently reissued her
Rossignolo CD and has released her newest recording, with baroque violinist Nancy Wilson,
of the complete sonatas of Teodorico Pedrini, 18th-century music master to the Chinese
emperor. Her upcoming recordings are François Couperin’s L’Art de toucher le clavecin, 6th
and 8th
ordres and a 2-CD set of contemporary harpsichord works, both due out in 2018.
Lindorff is an active proponent of new music. Composers who have written works for her are
Ronald Caltabiano, Michael Carnes, Daniel Cate, Chen Yi, Sabrina Clarke, Fred Cohen,
Donald Crockett, Paul Epstein, Eric Ewazen, Cynthia Folio, Kristin Hevner, Christopher
Keyes, Albert Olson, Alba Potes, Elizabeth Tsang, Michael White, and André Singer (1907-
1996), for whom she serves as musical executor.
Lindorff’s recent seasons include guest artist performances at the 9th
International Beijing
Piano Festival; Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival, Amsterdam; and Kraków Academy of Music,
Poland.