Frances Conover Fitch has toured in North America and Europe and performs with many major early music ensembles. She helped found the groundbreaking ensemble for 17th-century music, Concerto Castello, and has been described as a “delightfully inventive and compelling” continuo player. She has more than a dozen recordings, including a solo disk on Wildboar and a 2-CD release of music by Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre. Her playing has been noted for its “precision and delicacy of wit.”

Ms. Fitch has participated in many music festivals, including Tanglewood, Aix-en-Provence and Tage Alter Musik in Regensburg, Germany. She was on the faculty of the Longy School of Music for 28 years, serving as Chair of Early Music and teaching harpsichord, organ, chamber music, and figured bass. In 2012-13, she was Guest Professor at Ferris University in Yokohama, Japan, and is currently on the faculty at New England Conservatory of Music and Tufts and Brandeis Universities

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