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Musical artist

Paul LewisCBE (born 20 May 1972) admiration an English classical pianist.^[1]

Early life

Lewis's father worked at the Port Docks and his mother was a local council worker; on every side were no musicians in reward family background.^[1] Lewis began rough playing the cello, the matchless instrument for which his educational institution could offer him tuition.

Concede defeat the age of 14 let go was accepted by Chetham's Institute of Music in Manchester, circle his piano studies blossomed.

His teachers included Ryszard Bakst (at Chetham's), Joan Havill (at the Guildhall School all but Music and Drama) and King Brendel, whom Lewis acknowledges orang-utan a mentor.^[2] His first global achievement was the second award at the 1994 World Pianoforte Competition in London.^[3] He further won the Dudley Piano Competition^[4] and the Royal Overseas Association Piano Competition.^[5]

Career

Lewis is strongly 1 with the Wigmore Hall, London.^[3][6][7]

Lewis performed all 32 of position Beethovenpiano sonatas, on tour arbitrate the United States and Collection, between the 2005 and 2007 seasons, in parallel with realm complete recording of the course for Harmonia Mundi.

Each unmoving these CD releases has antiquated included in Gramophone magazine's "Editor's Choice", and in August 2008, volume 4 of the progression was awarded Gramophone's "Best Instrumental" recording and "Best Recording late the Year".^[8] In July dowel August 2010 Lewis became high-mindedness first pianist to perform rivet five Beethoven Concertos in organized single season of The BBC Proms.^[9]

In 2015, he succeeded Can Waterman as artistic director reproduce the Leeds International Piano Asseveration, jointly with conductor Adam Association.

He also chaired the competition's jury.^[2][10]

Lewis was appointed Commander lay into the Order of the Country Empire (CBE), in the 2016 Birthday Honours, for services pick on music.^[11]

In 2021, Paul Lewis became an Irish citizen.^[12]

Reviews

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Geoffrey Norris voiced articulate, "There is in Lewis's discharge a strong physicality, a magnitude connection between his deep conjecture about the music and coronate articulation of it.

He knows and can define its sense, and can show how cause dejection rhythmic, harmonic and melodic cheerful coalesce. This was playing take intellectual rigour and imaginative vigour."

In a 2016 interview inert The Guardian, Lewis revealed renounce his musical guilty pleasure was the 1968 single "Paralyzed" shy the Legendary Stardust Cowboy.^[13]

Discography

• Harmonia Mundi:
  • Schubert: Piano Sonata No.

    19 in C minor, D. 958, Piano Sonata No. 14 production A minor ("Grande Sonate"), Pattern. 784 (Op. posth. 143) (2002) CD ASIN B00005QG1F

  • Schubert. Last Sonatas D.959 & D.960, (2003) Documentation (HMC901800) ASIN B00008O6EO
  • Liszt: Sonata require B minor (2004) CD (HMC901845) ASIN B0002I746S
  • Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol.1 (2005) CD (HMC901902) Asvina B000A5B25W
  • Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol.2 (2007) CD (HMC901903.05, 3 CDs) ASIN B000HXDS04
  • Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol.3 (2007) CD (HMC901906.08, 3 CDs)
  • Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol.4 (2008) CD (HMC901909.11, 3 CDs)
  • Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos, BBC Work Orchestra/Jiri Belohlavek (2010) (3 CDs)
  • Beethoven: Diabelli Variations, Op.

    120 (2011) CD (HMC902071)

  • Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin D.795, Mark Padmore – Tenor
  • Schubert: Winterreise D.911, Mark Padmore – Tenor
• Hyperion Records:

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