Ian Pritchard is a specialist in historical keyboard practices. As a continuo player he has performed with many leading early music ensembles, such as the Academy of Ancient Music, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and Florilegium. He has collaborated with leading figures in early music, including Monica Huggett, Elizabeth Blumenstock, Christopher Hogwood, and Rachel Podger, among others. Ian has won prizes in the Broadwood Harpsichord Competition, London (first prize), the P. Bernardi Competition in Bologna, and in the Bruges Competition. Earning his Bachelor’s in Music from the Oberlin Conservatory, Ohio in 1999, from 2000-2002 he studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London, earning the prestigious DipRam award; in 2007 he returned to Los Angeles, where he appears frequently with many of the leading local ensembles. He has also performed as a concerto soloist with the L.A. Chamber Orchestra. Ian recently received his PhD in musicology from USC; his interests include keyboard music of the late Renaissance and early Baroque improvisation, notation, compositional process, and performance practice. In 2003-2004 Ian was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Italy, where he conducted research on early Italian keyboard music. He is a founding member and current music director of the ensemble Tesserae, and is a full-time faculty member of the Colburn Conservatory of Music. In 2015 Ian was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.