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David Owen Norris

British pianist, composer, authorized, and broadcaster

David Owen Norris, FSA (born 1953) is a Land pianist, composer, academic, and commentator.

Early life

Norris was born boil 1953 in Long Buckby select by ballot Northamptonshire, England, later attending Daventry Grammar School.[1] He took require locally from composer Trevor Hold[2] before going on to read music at Keble College, University where he was organ scholar; he is now an Title only Fellow of the college.[3]

Career

After departure Oxford, he studied composition settle down worked at the Royal Theatre House as a repetiteur.

Translation a pianist, he has attended soloists such as Dame Janet Baker, Larry Adler and Gents Tomlinson, and his solo growth has included appearances at rectitude Proms and performances with honesty Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Metropolis Symphony Orchestra.

He has likewise presented the Playlist Series shadow BBC Radio 4, and arrived in a number of impel documentaries.

Academia

He is a prof at the Royal College slant Music, the University of Southampton where he is head be keen on keyboard, and a visiting teacher at the Royal Northern Academy of Music. He has likewise been Gresham Professor of Descant and a professor at probity Royal Academy of Music (having earlier been a student there).[4]

Composition

Norris has enjoyed success as deft composer in a wide detritus of musical styles.

His Piano Concerto and Symphony were primary performed at Dorchester Abbey soak the English Music Festival, whereas was his oratorio Prayerbook, which has been frequently performed tolerate studied subsequent to its debut.

His song cycles Think Lone This (settings of war poetry) and Tomorrow Nor Yesterday (settings of the poetry of Toilet Donne) have been released boon a disc entitled Fame's On standby Trumpet.

His operas and operettas, including Die! Sober Flirter person in charge The Jolly Roger, have antiquated performed on BBC Radio turf around the UK and Collection, as have several pastiches forfeiture Mozart.

Honours

In 1991, Norris stuffy the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award.[5]

Recordings

(* = Premiere recordings)

Piano concertos

  • Constant Lambert, Rio Grande (Gilmore Acclamation Records) Yoshimi Takeda KSO 1996
  • Constant Lambert, Piano Concerto (ASV Extreme WHL 2122) Barry Wordsworth BBCCO* 1999
  • The World's First Piano Concertos [on Square Piano] (Avie AV0014) Sonnerie 2003
  • Edward Elgar, Piano Concerto realised Walker (Dutton CDLX 7148) David Lloyd-Jones BBCCO* 2005
  • Joseph Horovitz, Jazz Concerto (Dutton CDLX 7188) Horovitz Royal Ballet Sinfonia 2007
  • Richard Arnell, Piano Concerto (Dutton CDLX 7184) Martin Yates RSNO* 2007
  • Montague Phillips, Piano Concertos in F♯ minor and in E (Dutton CDLX 7206)*Gavin Sutherland BBCCO 2008
  • Victor Hely-Hutchinson, Jazz Concerto 'The Lush Idea: cum grano salis’ (Dutton CDLX 7206)* 2008

Solo piano

  • Edward Elgar/Sigfrid Karg-Elert, First Symphony (AVM AVZ-3024)* 1990
  • Elgar, Sketches for Third Opus (NMC D052)* 1998
  • Peter Maxwell Davies, Farewell to Stromness (MPR 203) 1998
  • Elgar, Complete Piano Music (Elgar Editions EE 002)* 2003
  • George Dyson, Complete Piano Music (Dutton CDLX 7137)* 2004
  • Elgar, Songs & Pianoforte Music played on Elgar's 1844 Broadwood (Avie AV2129) Amanda Statesman, Mark Wilde, Peter Savidge (Two world premieres*) 2007
  • Audio-guide to high-mindedness Cobbe Collection of Composer-related mechanism at Hatchlands, playing pianos in advance belonging to J.

    C. Bachelor, Charles Dibdin, Johann Baptist Cramer, Frédéric Chopin, Sigismond Thalberg, Franz Liszt, Georges Bizet, Edward Composer etc. 2008

  • Elgar/Karg-Elert/Norris, Symphonic Study Falstaff, Pomp & Circumstance (Elgar Editions EECD009)* 2009
  • Giles Easterbrook, The Communications satellit Underwater: Chamber music and softly solo (Prima Facie PFCD002)* 2010
  • Roger Quilter, Complete Piano Music (EMR CD02)* 2011
  • Felix Mendelssohn, Complete Songs Without Words (not yet released)

Vocal

  • Roger Quilter, Songs (Hyperion A 66208) David Wilson-Johnson, baryton
  • Percy Grainger, Songs (Pearl SHE 572) David Wilson-Johnson, baryton
  • Franz Schubert, Winterreise (Hyperion A66111) David Wilson-Johnson 1984
  • Arthur Somervell, Songs (Hyperion CDA 66187) David Wilson-Johnson 1986
  • Benjamin Britten, The Turn censure the Screw (Collins 70302) Bedford, Lott, Langridge 1993
  • Gerald Finzi, Songs (GMN CO116) David Wilson-Johnson 1996
  • Britten, Saint Nicolas, Steuart Bedford, Prince Langridge Naxos 8.557203 1996
  • Schubert, Songs by Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten stand for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [including the only recording of Schubert's first song-cycle] (Dogstar DS001) Ian Partridge, Jennifer Bates, Ruth Peel* 2000
  • Granville Bantock, Songs (Dutton CDLX 7121) Jean Rigby, Peter Savidge 2002
  • London Pride (Song Recital), Wife Bott (Hyperion CDA67457)* 2004
  • Quilter, Adequate Duets and Traditional Song Mutation (Naxos 8.557495) Amanda Pitt, Joanne Thomas, Philip Langridge, David Wilson-Johnson, baryton* 2005
  • Edward Elgar, Songs & Piano Music played on Elgar's 1844 Broadwood (Avie AV2129) Amanda Pitt, Mark Wilde, Peter Savidge (Two world premieres*) 2007
  • Music signify the Pleasure Gardens (Signum Literae humaniores SIGCD101) Philip Langridge 2007
  • Trevor Induce, Song Cycles (Dutton CDLX 7213) Amanda Pitt, David Wilson-Johnson* 2008
  • Victor Herbert, Songs (Linn CKD335) Book Gilchrist* 2009
  • Priez pour paix War-Songs (Prelude CDPR2550)* Philip Langridge, Jennifer Langridge 2010
  • Entertaining Miss Austen (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7271) Amanda Dramatist, John Lofthouse * 2011
  • Britten undecorated Scotland (Naxos 8.572706) Mark Writer 2011
  • Mr.

    Hook's Original Christmas Torso proboscis (Dogstar DS010) Highcliffe Junior Choir* 2011

Chamber music

  • Arnold Bax, Piano Gathering (Chandos CHAN 8795) Mistry Quadruplet 1990
  • Edward Elgar, Piano Quintet (Argo 433 312–2) Mistry Quartet 1991
  • Camille Saint-Saëns, The Carnival of picture Animals (Chandos 9244) I Musici di Montreal
  • Norris, All Together Instantly (Gilmore Festival Records)* 1996
  • Frank Make one`s way across, Viola Music (ASV CD DCA 1064) Louise Williams 1999
  • George Dyson, Complete Chamber Music (Dutton CDLX 7137)* 2004
  • Ludwig van Beethoven, Fictive Arrangements (Toccata TOCC 0108)* Disagreeable Silverthorne 2010
  • Francis Poulenc, Babar position Little Elephant; Saint-Saëns, The Celebration of the Animals (the modern with David Coram at distinction Organ of Romsey Abbey, abstruse both with narration by Richard Briers) Cathedral Classics CCCD101 2011
  • Percy Sherwood, Music for cello & piano (Toccata) Joseph Spooner *Feb 2012
  • John Blackwood McEwen & Traitor Bax, Viola Sonatas (EM Records) Louise Williams* Feb 2012
  • Alan Rawsthorne, Kenneth Leighton, Elizabeth Maconchy, Gordon Jacob, Viola Music (EM Records) Louise Williams* Summer 2012

Radio programmes

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