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Sir Stephen Hough
PianoNamed by The Economist as one
of Twenty Living Polymaths, Sir Stephen Hough combines a distinguished career
as a pianist with those of composer and writer. He was the first classical
performer to be given a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2022 as part of the Queen’s
Birthday Honours, Hough became the first British-born pianist since 1977 to be
awarded a Knighthood for Services to Music.
In a career spanning 40 years, Hough has
played solo recitals and concertos with leading orchestras at major concert
halls and festivals across five continents. Celebrating Rachmaninov’s 150th
anniversary in 2023, Hough performed the composer’s five works for piano and
orchestra, including his 30th appearance at the BBC Proms performing
the First Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and a complete cycle in
Brazil as the Artist in Residence of Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São
Paulo. Additional appearances include the BBC Scottish Symphony, Bergen
Philharmonic, China Philharmonic, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Minnesota, Oslo
Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony
Orchestras. Recent highlights include concerts and online recordings of both
Brahms concertos with the Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, and a seven-city UK tour with the Iceland Symphony
Orchestra.
2024 sees the premiere of Hough’s own piano concerto,
entitled The World of Yesterday, inspired by Stefan Zweig’s titular
novel Die Welt von Gestern. Jointly commissioned by four orchestras, the
concerto receives its World Premiere in Salt Lake City in January 2024 with
Hough as the soloist performing with the Utah Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Sir Donald Runnicles. The European premiere takes place at Bridgewater Hall in
Manchester in May 2024 with The Hallé under Sir Mark Elder.
As a solo recitalist, Hough opens Wigmore Hall’s 2023/24
season in London, as well as cities including Beijing, Bilbao, Dublin, Mexico
City, San Francisco, Seoul and Shanghai. In March 2024, Hough and the Castalian
String Quartet embark on a six-city US tour, including New York and Washington
DC, performing the Brahms Piano Quintet and Hough’s own String Quartet
No.1 Les Six Rencontres.
Hough’s extensive discography of around 70 CDs has garnered international
awards including the Diapason d’Or de l’Année, several Grammy nominations, and
eight Gramophone Awards including Record of the Year and the Gold Disc. Recent
releases for Hyperion, now available to stream, include Beethoven’s complete
piano concertos (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Hannu Lintu), The Final
Piano Pieces of Brahms, Chopin’s complete Nocturnes, a Schumann recital,
Schubert Piano Sonatas, and Mompou's Música callada. For
Warner Classics, Hough recorded Elgar’s Violin Sonata with Renaud Capuçon,
and on Orchid Classics an album of his choral music was released in 2023.
As a composer, Hough has written
extensively for the voice and the piano. His most recent song cycle, Songs
of Love and Loss, co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall, The 92nd Street Y in New
York, and Tippet Rise in Montana, received its world premiere in January 2023.
He wrote the commissioned work for the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition, performed by all 30 competitors. Hough’s String Quartet No.1 Les
Six Rencontres, commissioned and premiered by
the Takács Quartet, was released by Hyperion Records in January 2023.
Hough has also been commissioned by Musée du Louvre, London’s National Gallery, Westminster Abbey, Westminster
Cathedral, the Genesis Foundation, Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, the
Walter W. Naumburg Foundation, Orquesta Sinfónica
de Euskadi and the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet. His music is published by
Josef Weinberger Ltd.
As an author, Hough’s memoir Enough: Scenes from Childhood, was published by Faber & Faber in Spring 2023.
It follows his collection of essays Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music
and More (Faber & Faber, 2019) – a 2020 Royal Philharmonic Society
Award winner and one of Financial Times’ Book of the Year 2019 – as well
as his first novel, The Final Retreat (Sylph Editions, 2018). He has
also been published by The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, The
Times, The Guardian and the Evening Standard. Sir Stephen is an Honorary Fellow of Cambridge University’s Girton College and holds the International Chair of Piano Studies at his alma mater, the Royal Northern College in Manchester. He is also a member of the faculty at The Juilliard School.