Event overview
All are welcome to attend this piano masterclass, featuring students on the BMus and MMus Music Programmes, with Danny Driver
The international critical acclaim that Danny Driver’s recordings and performances have generated over recent years has cemented his reputation as one of Britain’s most respected and versatile pianists, with two Gramophone Award nominations, a National Public Radio Top 10 Award and Limelight Magazine’s Instrumental Recording of the Year 2014 Award for his recording of Handel’s Eight Great Suites.
Danny Driver’s recent concerto appearances have included the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Minnesota Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and American Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared twice at the BBC Proms, most recently with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Charles Dutoit.
In recital Danny Driver has performed throughout the UK and in Germany, Italy, Israel, Sweden, the USA, and China. Highlights of Driver’s 2016-17 schedule will include the Southbank Centre’s International Piano Series (London), Music Toronto, the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal, the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, and a USA tour featuring Ligeti’s Piano Études.
As a chamber musician Danny Driver has appeared at the Australian Chamber Music Festival, Bard Music Festival, Birdfoot Music Festival, Eilat Chamber Music Festival, and Stockholm’s Festival O/Modernt. He collaborates regularly with violinists Chloë Hanslip and Jack Liebeck, and with baritone Christian Immler, with whom he has given recitals broadcast by Deutschland Radio and Radio France.
Driver’s fruitful relationship with London-based Hyperion Records has spawned an internationally acclaimed discography of works by C P E Bach, Handel, Schumann, and Balakirev, and highly praised interpretations of neglected British composers York Bowen, Benjamin Dale and Erik Chisholm.
Students involved:
Mimi Jasson
Amber Tapsell
Agata Michalska
Rob Hansen
(other tbd)
Although active participation in the class involves final year BMus Music and MMus students only, this is an open class and anyone is welcome to attend and listen.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Mar 2017 | 4:00pm - 7:00pm |
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