Grant Colburn

Who is Grant Colburn?

Grant Colburn is an American harpsichordist, pianist and composer. He studied harpsichord with Igor Kipnis.

He is the author of five published collections of baroque and renaissance harpsichord music, and a concerto for harpsichord and strings. Also music for recorder/flute with continuo and works for unaccompanied cello or viola da gamba, as well as songs for voice and continuo of which there are recordings by Fernando de Luca, Ernst Stolz, Daniel Shoskes, Simone Stella and Michele Barchi. Colburn was the author of a feature article on period composition in the summer 2007 issue of Early Music America Magazine. More recently he authored an article on early music and its growing presence on YouTube in Early Music America Magazine for its winter 2008 issue. He is also a contributing reviewer and writer for Harpsichord and Fortepiano Magazine.

A concert of Colburn's compositions was given at the 2007 Boston Early Music Festival. Аn article on his performing experiences while there titled, "A View from the Fringe of the Fringe." appeared in Harpsichord and Fortepiano Magazine, Volume 12, No.1.

Colburn is one of the founding members of Vox Saeculorum, a society of composers working in early historical styles. Colburn is also a member of the Delian Society, an organization devoted to preservation of tonal music.