Lillian Gordis, born on July 12, 1992, in Berkeley, California, is an American-born harpsichordist who moved to France when she was 16.
[1] Lillian Gordis began studying the harpsichord at age 9 with Katherine Roberts Perl and then Arthur Haas in New York City.
At the encouragement of Pierre Hantaï, she moved to France at age 16 to study privately with him as well as with Bertrand Cuiller and Skip Sempé.
[3] As a soloist, she has been invited on the radio show Génération Jeunes Interprètes on France Musique[4] and has participated in festivals in Europe and the United States, such as Sinfonia en Périgord,[5] the Printemps de Lanvellec,[6] Jeunes Talents, Paris Clavecin Festival,[7] Clavecin en Fête, Festival de Richelieu, Voyage dans l’Hiver (Moulin d’Andé), Petits Concerts dans les Copeaux, L’Art de la Fugue, Oude Muziek Utrecht Fringe, and at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées, Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ, Museo Musica Bologna, and MusicSources Berkeley; she was also invited to play with the Orchestre Français des Jeunes Baroque in 2017 under the direction of Rinaldo Alessandrini and with the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris under the direction of Giuliano Carmignola and Fabio Biondi with Vivica Genaux and Sonia Prina.
In 2019, her first solo album, Zones, dedicated to the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, was released on the label Paraty (Harmonia Mundi-PIAS).