Posts for the Tunnell Trust blog that Savitri and I were asked to write during our tour in Scotland: Day 1: Dundee Chamber Music From Richard: The sensible thing to do might have been to play the same programme five nights in a row, but for our Tunnell Trust tour this week we decided to […]

After my concert the previous day of pieces by Eric Wubbels, Michael Cutting, Naomi Pinnock and Georg Friedrich Haas, I played as part of one of what Music on Main call their “kitchen parties”, at their office space in Vancouver. Music by Scarlatti, Ravel and Mark Simpson:

A recording of the chamber music of Erika Fox is on the way from NMC Recordings, with Goldfield  Ensemble. Erika was born in Vienna in 1936 and came to England as a war refugee. I had a terrific time getting to know Erika and her music, and was bowled over by the snippets I heard […]

Videos from recital at Wigmore Hall with Savitri Grier on 6 March 2018:

Next season Savitri Grier and I will play all ten Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin, over five concerts on tour in Scotland (6-10 March 2019). Each recital includes two sonatas, and will also feature pieces by Georges Enescu. We felt we needed something more spacious and yet equally vivid to complement the Beethoven, and […]

Livestream of recital with Ian Buckle, as part of Pixels Ensemble’s Debussy Weekend at Leeds University. Available on demand. Debussy : Six épigraphes antiques Grainger : “In a Nutshell” Suite Debussy : En blanc et noir

From the BBC Radio 3 studio on ‘In Tune’ with Vadim Gluzman, who was in London to play with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican: During the interview Vadim explained how the Stradivari he plays previously belonged to Leopold Auer, who taught Jascha Heifitz and Nathan Milstein (amongst other greats) – an auspicious heritage… […]

Photos from Little Missenden Festival 2017 with Mark Simpson, including premiere of Mark Bowden’s The Breaking Wheel, which he wrote for us. Photos © Robert Piwko.

Peter Moore and I have been playing a lot together recently, including on tour in China and Columbia. We also filmed this short piece for Classic FM, which they shared on Facebook. 1.1 million views and counting…

Interview with the Ribble Valley International Piano Week ahead of their 30th anniversary season here.

Each year Making Music promote a handful of artists in their Selected Artists brochure, and I’m delighted to be among those selected for the 2018-19 season after being heard in recital earlier this year. Promoters affiliated with Making Music get special rates on booking, and this year – for the first time – can claim a contribution […]

Some photos from my tour of China last month. I gave ten recitals, in Shoaxing, Hangzhou, Wenzhou, Ningbo, Huzhou, Jiaxing, Taizhou and Suzhou, and spent some time in Shanghai. My wife was able to travel with me, and this was the first time in China for both of us. Very much enjoyed exploring the cities, […]

I was in the studio again recently to film more pieces and tutorials for the Tido Music iPad app. The new videos – works by CPE Bach, JS Bach, Brahms, Haydn and Hensel – will be released in the coming months. In other Tido news, there was an extended piece on the app and its founder, […]

Livestream of recital with Savitri Grier from Clothworkers’ Hall, Leeds University. Also available on demand. Mozart : Sonata for piano and violin in B flat, K454 Brahms : Violin Sonata No.3 in D minor, op.108

from the Tido Music app:

The Royal Philharmonic Society and BBC Radio 3 put on a weekend of chamber music at The Venue in Leeds College of Music. Peter Moore and I played a lunchtime concert on 19 November, and Mark Simpson and I were asked to stand in last-minute for Annelien Van Wauwe and Nino Gvetadze (who were unable […]

Videos from my recital at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2015: Tristan Murail : La Mandragore Michael Cutting : This Is Not A Faux Wood Keyboard

Following my recital in the opening weekend of the 2015 festival, HCMF have invited me back for the closing weekend in 2016. My programme this year includes the world premiere of Michael Cutting’s I AM A STRANGE LOOP V for Fender Rhodes & tape machines, the UK premiere of Eric Wubbels’s Psychomechanochronometer, Chaya Czernowin’s fardanceCLOSE, […]

As part of their 70th birthday celebrations, Radio 3 (in partnership with Sound and Music) are hosting Matthew Kaner as their Embedded Composer, playing his music regularly and inviting him to talk about new music on various shows. For the 70 days of the residency, Matthew has written 10 new pieces, each of which is played […]

Mark Simpson and I are giving a series of concerts in the UK featuring highlights of the clarinet & piano repertoire both old and new, including both Brahms Sonatas and music by Schumann, Weber, Julian Anderson and Mark Simpson. 18 October : Yamaha Music London 20 October : Aberdeen Citadel (also broadcast Radio 3) 22 October […]

The Tido Music app launched last week and is now available through the iTunes Store. At its core, Tido Music is a platform for downloading and reading sheet music on iPad, but the app already also offers content and tools that take it far beyond this. I’ve been involved with the Piano Masterworks project, which is in collaboration […]

I was recently invited to be on the jury for the Large-Scale Composition section of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Awards. The task proved to be both immense – listening to around 24 hours of music – and highly rewarding, in that it was an ideal snapshot of the music being premiered in 2015. It was also […]

from Grieg Piano Concerto with Haffner Orchestra in Lancaster University’s Great Hall:

photos © Brian Slater

Filmed by SKY for a documentary on Mark’s The Immortalisation Commission.

Delighted to feature on this disc from NMC, Dinosaur, which showcases the music of composer Ben Foskett and will be released 23 June. The works included are: Five Night Pieces (Richard Uttley, piano) Hornet II (Mark van de Wiel, clarinet; London Sinfonietta; Geoffrey Paterson, conductor) From Trumpet (Hallé; Nicholas Collon, conductor) On From Four (Psappha; […]

The piano duo pieces (birthday pieces for Hans Werner Henze and Oliver Knussen) Huw Watkins and I played in a BBC concert at Maida Vale were broadcast yesterday on Radio 3 as part of the Hear and Now programme. Presented by Tom Service in conversation with Oliver Knussen. Listen here!

Had a nice time recently at the Glasgow Short Film Festival giving the premiere of Dobrinka Tabakova and Ruth Paxton’s new collaboration PULSE, commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society for the PRS New Music Biennial. The work is for gamelan, percussion and piano duet, with Ruth’s film projected live. The concert also featured various chamber […]

Just back from a great time at this festival, which is part of Music for Galway. As well as the Vaughan-Williams Piano Quintet (an early work of his I did not know, but which turns out to be full of great tunes and passion), I played Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in the piano 4-hands […]

Mark and I have just been in the studio to record an array of repertoire for broadcast on Radio 3. Works by Bernstein, Finzi, Simon Holt, Ireland and Simpson will be broadcast over Christmas and in 2014… with Simon Holt after recording his Escaramuza

The BBC broadcast some of my recordings as part of their Transatlantic Travel: Americana series on Afternoon on 3 earlier this week: On Tuesday, Edward MacDowell’s Fireside Tales : listen here (47 minutes in) On Wednesday, Amy Beach’s Gavotte fantastique : listen here (39 minutes in) On Friday, Henry Cowell’s Exultation : listen here (2 […]

My recording of Britten’s Holiday Diary (from a concert at Maida Vale Studios in February 2013) was broadcast this weekend, during the interval of the Live in Concert broadcast of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the Barbican. You can hear it on iPlayer here (about 1 hour in) for the next week or so and […]