Musician and musicologist
Christopher Stembridge’s special field of interest is Italian keyboard music of the renaissance and early baroque.
He has given particular attention, since 1980, to historic keyboard instruments that have, or are known to have had, extra chromatic keys, split-keys.
On this website you will find a variety of articles and recordings, as well as details of editions and CDs, and also links to other sites.
Coming up:
- Wednesday 25th February 2026 at 1 p.m. in Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
a programme of organ music by Orlando Gibbons. Click here to see the programme.
This music will also be discussed at the Bernard Edmonds Research Conference to be held on Saturday February 21st at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, organised by the British Institute of Organ Studies.
My transcriptions of this music may be downloaded here.
Recording of Gibbons' Fantasy in Gamut flatt played at low pitch on Callido 12' organ of 1764 in S. Zulian, Venice