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president : Ian Partridge CBE
 Paul
Lewis started his musical life on the 'cello, which was the only instrument
on which his school could offer him tuition. When fourteen he was
accepted into Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, where his piano
studies blossomed. Among his music teachers were Ryszard Bakst (at
Chetham's), Joan Havill (at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
and Alfred Brendel. His first international achievement was the second
prize at the 1994 World Piano Competition in London.
Paul Lewis has played in many prestigious venues and various festivals all over the world and with many notable orchestras with famous conductors. He is most strongly affiliated with the Wigmore Hall, London. He performed all the Beethoven piano sonatas on tour in the USA and Europe between the 2005 and 2007 seasons, in parallel with his complete recording of the cycle for Harmonia Mundi.
In June 2009 he hosted a chamber music festival in St Mary Magdalene Church of Latimer, Buckinghamshire. |
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Every
one of Paul's Beethoven Piano Sonatas CD series (four in all) from
Harmonia Mundi has been included in The Gramophone magazine's
"Editor's Choice", and in August 2008, volume four of
the series was awarded The Gramophone's 'Best Instrumental
Recording' and 'Best Recording of the Year'.
PAUL LEWIS played first in Wendover in 2000, duetting with fellow-pianist Steven Osbourne, and returned to give a solo recital in 2004. Since then his reputation has become immense. In 2003 he was winner of the South Bank Classical Music Award and the Royal Philharminc Society's award for instrumental performance. He is much in demand as both soloist and accompanist.
PROGRAMME
a classical programme of Mozart, Schumann, Liszt and Beethoven
Adagio in Bmin, K.540
SCHUMANN
Fantasie in C, Op.17
Vallee d'Obermann (from Annees de Pelerinage)
BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonata No.21 in C, 'Waldstein', Op.53
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Paul Lewis on wikipedia:
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Paul-Lewis