For my first post of 2015, I’ve compiled a list of British pianists, the result of my call for nominations for British pianists. This is by no means a comprehensive list and readers are invited to continue to add more names (use the comments box below).
Links go to my ‘Meet the Artist’ interview with that pianist
Martin James Bartlett
Alisdair Beatson
Mark Bebbington
John Bingham
Christian Blackshaw
Nick van Bloss
James Brawn
Graham Caskie
Imogen Cooper
Jill Crossland
Christine Crowshaw
Danny Driver
Gordon Fergus-Thompson
Margaret Fingerhut
Michael Finnissy
Philip Edward Fisher
William Fong
Ian Fountain
Grace Francis
Ashley Fripp
Benjamin Frith
Mark Gasser
Anthony Goldstone
Benjamin Grosvenor
Waka Hasegawa
Anthony Hewitt
Tom Hicks
Peter Hill
Rolf Hind
Alisdair Hogarth
Timothy Horton
Julian Jacobson
Martin Jones
Graham Johnson
Peter Katin
Brian Kellock
Renna Kellaway
Mark Latimer
Paul Lewis
John Lill
Joanna Macgregor
Robert Markham
John McCabe
Murray McLachlan
Viv McLean
Lara Melda
Hamish Milne
Erdem Misirlioglu
Mishka Rushdie Momen
Thalia Myers
Sarah Nicholls
Steven Osborne
Charles Owen
Ian Pace
Lucy Parham
Yuri Paterson-Olenich
Jonathan Plowright
James Rhodes
Paul Roberts
Michael Roll
Martin Roscoe
Stephen Savage
Allan Schiller
Alexander Soares
Colin Stone
Kathryn Stott
Philip Thomas
Susan Tomes
Joseph Tong
Roger Vignoles
Mark Viner
Simon Watterton
Cordelia Williams
Andrew Wilde
Lyr Williams
James Willshire
Yuanfan Yang
‘Adopted, Honorary & Honoured Britons’
Alfred Brendel
Mary Dullea
Jayson Gillham
Michael McHale
Meng Yang Pan
Murray Perahia
Karim Said
Andras Schiff
Mitsuko Uchida
‘Late greats’
Harriet Cohen
Clifford Curzon
James Friskin
Myra Hess
Terence Judd
Sir Philip Ledger
Moura Lympany
Denis Matthews
Gerald Moore
John Ogdon
Harold Samuel
Irene Scharrer
Phyllis Sellick
Cyril Smith
Solomon
Allan Schiller – arguably the greatest Mozartian in the UK.
In case my earlier reply didn’t get sent (can’t see it in this thread), I’d like to nominate my one-time mentor, Denis Matthews for the ‘late greats’.
William Howard certainly deserves a mention
Hello,
Stephen Hough does not seem to be there.
Indeed he is, with a link to my interview with him