PIANIST James Huntingford seems to be everywhere these days, with a magnificent performance at the harpsichord for “Diadora” the other day, praised by “CityNews” reviewer Judith Crispin for its “subtle ornamentation.”

Tomorrow Huntingford is getting together with “historically informed” cellist Alex Nicholls to present a concert conjuring up the opulence of the French baroque in the Wesley Music Centre “Wednesday Lunchtime Live series” from 12.40 to 1.20pm.

The program will include Italianate Sonatas of French ‘cello virtuoso Jean Barriere, as well as works by the Couperins and other French masters—“everything from sweet pastorales, minuets and miniatures to the splendour of the royal opera.”

Huntingford has been playing the piano since the age of six. He received his L.Mus.A. for piano in 2006, and was winner of the National Eisteddfod Open Piano Recital for Canberra in both 2008 and 2009, as well as winner of the Haydn Festival Competition 2009. James performed in the Australian Youth Orchestra in 2009, and also as soloist with Canberra Youth Orchestra in Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto.

Last year he completed a Bachelor of Music degree at the ANU School of Music, where his interest in and love for early music flourished under the celebrated forte pianist Geoffrey Lancaster.

In recent years he’s taken on private piano tuition, accompaniment, chamber music performance, choral conducting and direction, adjudication, performance enhancement workshopping, repetiteuring, jazz performance, jazz and classical improvisation, continuo playing, and early music performance practice.

Nicholls is a cellist, specialising in 18^th and 19^th century cello performance and currently during his postgraduate Honours at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Neal Peres da Costa and Daniel Yeadon. In recent months he has worked with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra in the “Mozart the Great” concert series, and as part of a developing artist program at the Con on an opera by the late 18th-century composer Domenico Cimarosa.

James Huntingford, harpsichord and Alex Nicholls, violoncello, at Wesley Music Centre, 20 National Circuit, Forrest, 12.40pm to 1.20pm  tomorrow, June 26, $2 or paper note entry. No booking is necessary.