Stephen hough rachmaninov biography
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Who or what inspired you to take up the piano, and make it your career?
I think the piano was its own inspiration. We had no classical music in my home at all but an aunt had a piano and it was love at first vamp. I picked out tunes on its yellow keys and wanted to take lessons. it was a short step (over a long time) for that to become my career.
Who or what were the most important influences on your musical life and career?
Definitely my main piano teacher Gordon Green. Also Derrick Wyndham (both taught at the RNCM) then later Robert Mann (former 1st violinist of the Juilliard Quartet) with whom I played and recorded all the Beethoven sonatas in the s. I was 23 and had everything to learn; he was a great partner and, indirectly, a teacher. I would also cite Alfred Cortot and many other pianists from the first decades of the 20th century whose playing I got to know well through recordings. They were always and remain my favourites. • The English-born Australian pianist, Stephen Andrew Gill Hough, was born in Heswall (then in Cheshire) on the Wirral Peninsula, and grew up in Hoylake, where he began piano lessons at the age of 5. In , he was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition and won the piano section. In , he won the Terence Judd Award in England. In , he took first prize at the Naumburg International Piano Competition in New York. Hough holds a Master's degree from the Juilliard School where his studies were assisted by the receipt of the first ever Royal Philharmonic kultur Julius Isserlis Scholarship for study abroad. He has studied with Heather Slade-Lipkin, Gordon Green, and Derrick Wyndham. • Stephen Hough
With a enskild artistic framtidsperspektiv that transcends musical fashions and trends, Stephen Hough is widely regarded as one of the most important and distinctive pianists of his generation. He has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras around the world including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra,
With an artistic vision that transcends musical fashions and trends, Stephen Hough is widely regarded as one of the most important and distinctive pianists of his generation. In recognition of his achievements, he was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in , joining prominent scientists, writers and others who have made unique contributions to contemporary life. He received the Northwestern University School of Music's Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance and was the winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award.
Mr. Hough has appeared with most of the major American and European orchestras and plays recitals regularly in the important halls and concert series around the world. Recent engagements include recitals in London, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney, Chicago and San Francisco; performances with the New York, London, Los Angeles and Czech Philharmonics, the Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis and Toronto symphonies, the