The image cannot be displayed. Your computer may not have enough memory to open the image, or the image may have been corrupted. Restart your computer, and then open the file again. If the red x still appears, you may have to delete the image and then insert it again. Charles Owen announced as new Steinway & Sons UK Ambassador ahead of Bach partitas album release J.S. Bach: The Six Keyboard Partitas Charles Owen piano Avie Records AV2366 Release date 11 November Steinway & Sons events November 18 2016 January 27 2017 March 9 2017 “A class above the rest” International Piano British pianist Charles Owen has been appointed Steinway & Sons’ UK Ambassador ahead of the release of his latest album – Bach’s Six Keyboard Partitas – on Avie. As part of his new position, Owen will host a series of three exclusive master classes at Steinway Hall in London. Steinway & Sons explain that the master classes are “aimed at the UK’s next generation of pianists, students will have the opportunity to spend the day at Steinway Hall, to perform a piece of their choice on a Steinway & Sons grand piano and to receive personal feedback and advice from Charles himself, guiding and improving each student’s technical skills and performance.” “I am delighted and honoured to take on the newly created role of Steinway & Sons UK Ambassador. I look forward to coaching young pianists from around the UK with a positive aim to encourage, develop and widen their knowledge of music and piano playing in particular” Charles Owen The release of Charles Owen’s new CD of Bach’s Six Keyboard Partitas follows his morning recital at the London Piano Festival (8 October), where Owen performed 3 of the Partitas. The London Piano Festival was curated by Owen and duo partner Katya Apekisheva, with whom he performed the world premiere of Nico Muhly’s Fast Patterns during the Two-Piano-Gala on 8 October. Owen and Apekisheva created the festival to celebrate the piano and bring their fellow colleagues and friends together. The image cannot be displayed. Your computer may not have enough memory to open the image, or the image may have been corrupted. Restart your computer, and then open the file again. If the red x still appears, you may have to delete the image and then insert it again. Click below to watch Charles Owen perform Bach’s Partita No. 1 in B flat, BWV 825 at RhinegoldLIVE in 2014. Track list CD 1 Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, 19. VII. Gigue BWV 825 1. I. Praeludium CD 2 2. II. Allemande Partita No. 3 in A Minor, BWV 3. III. Corrente 827 4. IV. Sarabande 1. I. Fantasia 5. V. Menuets I & II 2. II. Allemande 6. VI. Gigue 3. III. Corrente 4. IV. Sarabande Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 5. V. Burlesca 826 6. VI. Scherzo 7. I. Sinfonia 7. VII. Gigue 8. II. Allemande 9. III. Courante Partita 10. IV. Sarabande No. 5 in 11. V. Rondeaux G 12. VI. Capriccio major, BWV Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 829 828 13. I. Ouverture 14. II. Allemande 15. III. Courante 16. IV. Aria 17. V. Sarabande 18. VI. Menuet The image cannot be displayed. Your computer may not have enough memory to open the image, or the image may have been corrupted. Restart your computer, and then open the file again. If the red x still appears, you may have to delete the image and then insert it again. 8. Partita No. 6 in E Minor, I. Praeambulum BWV 830 9. II. Allemande 15. I. Toccata 10. III. Corrente 16. II. Allemande 11. IV. Sarabande 17. III. Corrente 12. V. Tempo di Minuetto 18. IV. Air 13. VI. Passepied 19. V. Sarabande 14. VII. Gigue 20. VI. Tempo di Gavotta 21. VII. Gigue Upcoming concerts 20 October 2016 | New Walk Museum, Leicester 13:00pm Recital with Nicholas Daniel, oboe J. S. Bach Sonata in E flat BWV 1031 Schumann 3 Romances, Op. 94 Edmund Rubbra Sonata for Oboe and Piano in C Op. 100 J. S. Bach Sonata for A Major BWV 1032 26-28 October 2016 | Apollon International Arts Festival, Cyprus Chamber music concerts with Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Katharine Gowers, Krzysztof Chorzelski and Guy Johnston Charles Owen Described by Gramophone magazine as “one of the finest British pianists of his generation”, Charles Owen has enjoyed an extensive international career performing a wide ranging repertoire to outstanding critical acclaim. He has appeared at London’s Barbican and Queen Elizabeth Hall and regularly gives recitals at the Wigmore Hall. Internationally, he has performed at the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Brahms Saal in Vienna’s Musikverein, the Paris Musée d’Orsay, and the Moscow Conservatoire. His chamber music partners include Julian Rachlin, Chloe Hanslip, Augustin Hadelich and Nicholas Daniel as well as the Vertavo, Takacs and Elias Quartets. He also enjoys a highly successful piano duo partnership with Katya Apekisheva. Together they are Artistic Directors of the London Piano Festival. Charles studied in London at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music with Irina Zaritskaya and Imogen Cooper. His numerous awards include the Silver Medal at the Scottish International Piano Competition (1995) and the 1997 Parkhouse Award with violinist Katharine Gowers. The image cannot be displayed. Your computer may not have enough memory to open the image, or the image may have been corrupted. Restart your computer, and then open the file again. If the red x still appears, you may have to delete the image and then insert it again. A regular guest at festivals such as Aldeburgh, Bath, Cheltenham, Leicester and Perth in Australia, he has also performed with the Philharmonia, Royal Scottish National and London Philharmonic orchestras. Charles’ solo recordings comprise discs of piano music by Janácek, Poulenc and the complete Nocturnes and Barcarolles by Fauré. Chamber music discs include the cello sonatas of Brahms, Rachmaninov and Chopin with Natalie Clein and the Stravinsky Piano Ballets with Katya Apekisheva. His latest disc of Bach Partitas will be released in Autumn 2016 on the Avie label. Charles Owen is a Professor of piano at the Guildhall School in London and has recently been appointed Guest Professor of Keyboard at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. www.charlesowen.net For more information please contact Nicky Thomas Media 020 725 80909 [email protected] | www.nickythomasmedia.com .