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David Owen Norris

2 May 2023
12:00 - 13:00

| £25

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David Owen Norris at Hatchlands
David Owen Norris – piano

“Mozart’s Hero”: JC Bach, Mozart, and the Square Piano – an instrument sometimes considered a bit of a Cinderella meets her Prince Charming, thanks to Zumpe’s Glass Slipper.

David Owen Norris is a pianist, composer and broadcaster. He won the Prize of the City of Geneva in the Geneva Competition, and the Accompanist’s Prize at Leeds; and since his appointment to the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award (a direct result of his controversial performances in the Sydney Piano Competition), has performed all across the world, with four appearances in the BBC Proms, concert tours of Europe, Australia and North America, including performances at Sydney Opera House, the Kennedy Centre, Lincoln Centre, Ravinia Festival Chicago, the South Bank Centre etc. and a discography of 60 commercial CDs including his own Piano Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra, and his oratorio Prayerbook. His other compositions include a Symphony, the oratorio Turning Points, and the multi-media tribute to the passing seasons, HengeMusic. He has just given the premiere of his Piano Sonata.

His Chord of the Week programmes on BBC2 television were a popular feature of the Proms for six years. His Perfect Pianists is often shown on BBC4. He has contributed to programmes on Parry, Vaughan Williams, Mendelssohn & Elgar, including ninety minutes on BBC2 dedicated to Elgar’s Piano Concerto, with a full, filmed performance with the BBCSO. His first TV presentation, The Real Thing? from 1990, was hailed by the Daily Telegraph as ‘the most literate and probing programme on music for many years’, and his most recent Chord of the Week was reviewed by the Observer as ‘the most consistently intelligent three minutes you’ll watch on this or any other television this year’. The Beethoven 9 app for which he wrote the book and the analyses won the Best Music App Award.

His many radio presentations have included the Playlist series on Radio 4, and In Tune and The Works on Radio 3, where he recently made his 32nd appearance on Building a Library. Recordings recently released include Mozart on fortepiano for Hyperion, featured in the New York Times, the complete Chamber Music of Grace Williams, which was a Guardian CD of the Week, and the complete songs of Sir Arthur Sullivan on Chandos.

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Date:
2 May 2023
Time:
12:00 - 13:00
Cost:
£25
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Last approximately one hour.

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Last approximately two hours with one interval
during which juice and wine are served.

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