Richard Shaw - Piano

Richard Shaw specialises in chamber music and accompaniment and has performed extensively in Britain and abroad. He is Staff Accompanist at the Royal Academy of Music and each July gives masterclasses for pianists specialising in accompaniment and chamber music at CSSM (formerly the Charterhouse Summer School of Music). This summer he also appears at the Dartington Festival, the Oxford Flute Summer School, the British Flute Society Convention (RNCM, Manchester) and AIMS International Music School for Singers in Eastbourne, Sussex.

His many broadcasts for Radio 3 include duo performances with violinists James Ehnes, Viviane Hagner, Leonidas Kavakos, So-Ock Kim, Pekka Kuusisto, Andrew McGee, Vadim Repin, Ittai Shapira, Nikolaj Znaider, cellists Richard Harwood and Li Wei, flautists Jean Ferrandis and Laura Lucas, clarinettists Martin Fröst and Sarah Williamson, Hannah Marcinowicz (saxophone), Karen Geoghegan (bassoon), Christopher Orton (recorder), sopranos Elizabeth Atherton, Elizabeth Byrne, Nicole Cabelle, Majella Cullagh, Eva Kallberg, Jennifer Smith and Ailish Tynan, mezzo-sopranos Alice Coote, Catherine Griffith and Jean Rigby, Anna Larsson (contralto), counter-tenors Robin Blaze and Michael Chance, tenors Paul Agnew, Hal Cazalet, John Hudson, Richard Margison and Kurt Streit, Daniel Belcher (baritone), Matthew Rose and Jonathan Veira (bass-baritone) and Robert Pomakov (bass).

His recent CDs include music by the great French flautist, composer and conductor Phillipe Gaubert (with flautist Kathryn Thomas) on the  Deux-Elles label (DXL 923), the chamber works and piano solos of Birtwistle (with the Galliard Ensemble) (DXL 1019), Cecilia McDowall (with Emma Williams, flute and Ensemble Lumière) (DXL 1033), and of Fauré and his circle (DXL 1125). He has recorded extensively for Cramer Music, including duo CDs with Thomas Gould (violin), Martin Outram (viola), Oliver Coates (cello), Emma Williams (flute), Chris Cowie (oboe), Dmitri Rasul-Kareyev (clarinet), Hannah Marcinowicz (saxophone), Kira Docherty (horn). Further recordings for Toccata Classics are projected with his Ashton Piano Trio.

Richard takes a keen interest in music of our day. The many composers with whom he has worked include Malcolm Arnold, Elena Firsova, Karl Jenkins, Patrick Nunn, Vladislav Shoot and Dmitri Smirnov. He has performed Firsova’s music with Patricia Rozario (soprano), Alexander Ivashkin (cello), Yuko Inoue (viola), and Julian Sperry (flute), among others. His music album, Malcolm Arnold: Songs and Arias, is published by Novello & Co/Music Sales very shortly. His series of Wigmore Hall concerts featured Malcolm Arnold’s chamber music, which he performed with Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Karen Jones (flute), Ian Partridge (tenor), Paul Watkins (cello), Roger Chase (viola), Ensemble Lumière, and many others. These included premieres of works by Sir Malcolm, performed in his presence. The composer and artist Edward Cowie will shortly write a series of piano solos for him.
 

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