Preethi de Silva is founder and music director of Con Gioia, and has concertized extensively in the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and the Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, earning diplomas in performance and teaching, and at Yale University, where she earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree. She is the winner of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship and the prestigious Erwin Bodky Award for early music performance. Her recordings of several volumes of keyboard works by C.P.E. Bach, J.G. Müthel, and Mozart have received high critical acclaim. Her publications include music for harpsichord and oboe and a translation (from the original in German) of a rare manual on the fortepianos of Nannette Streicher. As well, she has composed works for solo harpsichord and string quartet. She is the lead harpsichordist in Con Gioia’s compact disc of Bach’s concertos for harpsichord. Currently, she is Professor of Music at Scripps College, Claremont. She also is on the faculty of Claremont Graduate University.

Preethi de Silva [director of Con Gioia and lead soloist in this recording] is a brilliant harpsichordist, who like no other harpsichordist can restrain herself and allow the music to sparkle… resulting in a radiant and very clearly structured interpretation [of four concertos by J.S. Bach]. Toccata, Regensburg