birth_place background instrument birth_date article_title name
montreal , quebec , canada non_vocal_instrumentalist harpsichord , organ 16 december 1931 kenneth gilbert
 kenneth gilbert
kenneth gilbert

kenneth gilbert , -lrb- born december 16 , 1931 in montreal , quebec -rrb- is a canadian harpsichordist , organist , musicologist and music educator .
gilbert studied at the conservatoire de musique du québec à montréal under yvonne hubert -lrb- piano -rrb- and gabriel cusson -lrb- harmony and counterpoint -rrb- .
he also studied the organ privately with conrad letendre in montréal .
in 1953 he won the prix d'europe for organ performance , an award which enabled him to pursue studies in paris , france with nadia boulanger -lrb- composition -rrb- , maurice duruflé -lrb- organ -rrb- , ruggero gerlin -lrb- harpsichord -rrb- , gaston litaize -lrb- organ -rrb- , and sylvie spicket -lrb- harpsichord -rrb- from 1953-1955 .
he later studied the harpsichord privately under wanda landowska .
gilbert made his first recordings with the canadian label baroque records co. of canada ltd. in 1962 - an all j.s. bach program , followed by several more solo harpsichord recordings of music by bach , another of rameau , and several chamber music albums with other canadian artists : mario duschenes -lrb- flute & recorder -rrb- , steven staryk -lrb- violin -rrb- , jacques simard -lrb- oboe -rrb- , as well as french flautist jean-pierre rampal .
as organist , he recorded an album of works by boehm , buxtehude and walther on two casavant-built instruments in quebec .
-lrb- all of these recordings were subsequently reissued on orion master recordings in the u.s.a. -rrb- in 1983 he recorded a two-cd selection from the montreal organ book on the hellmuth wolff organ at mcgill university for the canadian label analekta .
gilbert performed for the peabody mason concert series in 1974 .
he was the teacher of harpsichordist john whitelaw .
