“Bridget Cunningham is just such a player… her ability to entertain unassailable”

BBC Music Magazine

Bridget Cunningham has launched her third solo harpsichord album with Signum Records, a world premiere recording of the harpsichord music of Thomas Roseingrave. She is performing in concerts and releasing videos of Roseingrave’s stunning music on original 18th-century harpsichords from the Handel Hendrix House and Hatchlands.

★★★★★ Performance ★★★★★ Recording

BBC Music Magazine, 2024

New Album

Thomas Roseingrave:

Eight Harpsichord Suites

Gramophone ‘Video of the Day’

Featured as Gramophone’s’ Video of the Day’, Bridget Cunningham performs Thomas Roseingrave's moving Sarabande from the 7th Harpsichord Suite in G major, allying poise to heart-wrenching innocence.

Featured Recordings

  • “Bridget Cunningham directs Caio Fabbricio brilliantly, leading from the harpsichord to energise the other players, and to give them space to exploit juicy passages. The singers’ virtuosity and rich characterisations are delightful… Caio Fabbricio contains much fine music and compels fresh admiration of Handel’s orchestral skills. Execution of this project is uniformly excellent”

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  • “Handel has never sounded better” ★★★★★

    BBC Music Magazine

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  • “Cunningham's playing is brilliantly authoritative... loving superb keyboard playing but her thoughtful and imaginative programme means that we are double tempted.“

    Planet Hugill

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Events

  • Handel Hendrix museum interior showing harpsichord

    Handel House performance

    Monday 25th November 2024, 11:30am - 4pm

    Handel Hendrix Museum, 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, London, W1K 4HB

    Tel: 020 7495 1685

    Musicians from London Early Opera and students from The Handelians perform sumptuous music under the supervision of Artistic Director, Bridget Cunningham at the Handel Hendrix House.

    Music included in the admission price.

    Handel Hendrix museum

  • Handel House Performance

    Thurs 4th July 2024, 1pm - 3pm
    Handel Hendrix House, London

    Bridget Cunningham will be performing music by Hasse, Roseingrave and Handel on the Kirkman harpsichord, based with Irish mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty.

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  • Handel House Concert

    Sun 16th June 2024, 1pm - 3pm
    Handel Hendrix House, London

    Bridget Cunningham plays harpsichord music from Handel’s Eight Great Harpsichord Suites and exquisite music by Thomas Roseingrave, the first organist at St George’s Church Hanover Square.


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  • Hatchlands Park Concert

    Thu 13th Jun 2024, 12pm
    Hatchlands Park, National Trust

    Bridget Cunningham will be performing music by Roseingrave and Handel on the original 18th-century Irish Weber harpsichord from the Cobbe Collection of Instruments.

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  • Sonorities Festival Concert

    Friday 12th Apr 2024, 1pm
    Sonorities Festival, Queen’s University, Belfast 

    Bridget Cunningham will be performing music from her new harpsichord albums by Thomas Roseingrave and George Frideric Handel on the Michael Johnson harpsichord, based on the scaling of the Andreas Ruckers, 1637.


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  • Staging Handel Operas

    Wed 10th April 2024

    Seminar given by conductor and musicologist Bridget Cunningham for the Centre for 18th-Century Studies, Belfast Centre.

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  • Workshop on Handel's Theodora

    Wed 10th Apr 2024, 11am
    Sonorities Festival, Queen’s University, Belfast

    Workshop on Handel's Theodora with conductor Bridget Cunningham

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  • New Album Launch

    Sun 17th Mar 2024, 1pm - 3:30pm
    Handel Hendrix House, London

    Bridget Cunningham will be performing music from her new album on the on the original 18th-century Jacob Kirkman harpsichord and taking requests to celebrate St Patrick’s Day.

    Ticket included with admission to the house.

    BBC Music Magazine, April  2024     

    ★★★★★ Performance  

    ★★★★★ Recording

    Album link

  • Hogarth's Garden

    Friday 23rd June 2023, Concert 7:30pm, 1pm - 3:30pm
    St Nicholas Church, Chiswick, London, W42PH

    Evening of Handel’s music and narrations celebrating the art, vision and inspiration of William Hogarth.

    London Early Opera directed by Bridget Cunningham with new vocal consort with Charles MacDougall and narrations from BBCs Lars Tharp.

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“Bridget Cunningham is just such a player…

her ability to entertain unassailable”

★★★★★
BBC Music Magazine

“Handel has never sounded better”

★★★★★
BBC Music Magazine

“Revelatory – superbly performed”

★★★★★
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