Frances Conover Fitch enjoys playing any number of early keyboard instruments, including organetto (the most recently acquired). She helped found the groundbreaking ensemble for 17th-century music, Concerto Castello, and has been described as a “delightfully inventive and compelling” continuo player. Her playing has also been noted for its “precision and delicacy of wit.” Ms. Fitch has participated in major music festivals, including Tanglewood, Aix-en-Provence, Pepsico Summerfare, Tage Alter Musik (Regensburg), the Boston Early Music Festival, and the Festival de Musica Antigua in Mexico, and she has toured and performed with many prominent early music ensembles. Among her many recordings, Ms. Fitch made a double CD of music by Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre. She was a member of the faculty of the Longy School of Music for nearly three decades, and served as Chair of the Early Music department there. In 2006, Longy awarded her the George Seaman Award for Excellence in the Art of Teaching. Ms. Fitch is on the faculties of Tufts and Brandeis Universities and The New England Conservatory, and has been Guest Professor at Ferris University in Yokohama, Japan. With Jack Ashworth of the University of Louisville, she is co-author of the figured bass workbook, Running the Numbers. She is the Minister of Music at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Beverly Farms, MA.