Ikon Arts Management Ltd Suite 114, Business Design Centre 52 Upper Street , London N1 0QH t: +44 (0) 20 7354 9199 f: +44 (0)870 130 9646 [email protected] www.ikonarts.com David Owen Norris Biography Piano “quite possibly the most interesting pianist in the world” Globe & Mail, Toronto Website www. davidowennorris.com Contact Jessica Hill Email jessica @ikonarts.com David Owen Norris is one of the most innovative and brilliant pianists of our generation, being an authority and leading p erformer on early pianos, rare piano concertos (especially those by 20th century English composers), as well as being the pianist of choice for many world class singers. His work as a concert pianist has taken him round the world for forty years – ‘quite possibly the most interesting pianist in the world!’ says the Toronto Globe & Mail , while his latest piano solo CD got a double five star review in BBC Music Magazine in the spring. He was the first winner of the Gilmore Artist Award. Norris is in great demand as a teacher: he’s Professor of Performance at the University of Southampton, Visiting Professor at the RCM & the RNCM, and Educational Fellow of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. Recently he has returned to lecture for Gresham College, of which he is an Emeritus Professor. Video of his recent Piano Masterclass in a packed BBC Radio Theatre will soon be available on the Radio 3 website. David Owen Norris was Organ Scholar at Keble College, Oxford, leaving with a First in Music and a Composition S cholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won the Dove Prize, and privately in Paris. He was a repetiteur at the Royal Opera House, harpist at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Artistic Director of the Petworth Festival & the Cardiff Interna tional Festival, Gresham Professor of Music, and Chairman of the Steans Institute for Singers at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. He’s a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Organists, and an Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxfor d. As a composer… his oratorio Prayerbook will appear on CD in November on EM Records, performed by the Waynflete Singers, New College Choir, the Navarra String Quartet & the baritone Peter Savidge, amongst others. In January Norris records his song cycl es with the tenor Mark Wilde, and next May his Symphony will be premiered in the English Music Festival. As a broadcaster… ‘Sign this man up for a series!’ said the Sunday Times , after Norris’s celebrated deconstruction of ‘Jerusalem’ in the Prince of Wal es’s television programme about Sir Hubert Parry; ‘deserves a gold medal’ said the Daily Telegraph of his contribution to the BBC’s Bloomsday celebrations this year, James Joyce’s Playlist , part of his long running Radio 4 series. Norris is currently wor king on an app for iPad on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for Deutsche Gramophone, and on Bach transcriptions for Oxford University Press. A video of his technical work on PianoHAWK at the University of Southampton can be seen at: http://digitaleconomy.soton.ac.uk/blog/898 April 2013 Please do not use this biography if it is more than three months old .