Roy's tours in the past year have taken him several times to Asia and the antipodes for broadcasts, masterclasses, solo and joint recitals and performances of Poulenc's Concert champętre in Brisbane and Sydney. Earlier in the year heard him perform Dvorák's Piano Quintet with Prague's legendary Panocha Quartet in Lankroun (the Czech home town of Roy's mother).
15 May 2009 saw the launch at the Royal Academy of Music of Roy's new book The Art of French Piano Music, followed in the next week by a concert at the Debussy Museum outside Paris and DVD recordings in Vienna. July will see the release of Roy's new 2-CD album of piano music by Gabriel Fauré, an all-Fauré chamber music concert with the Kreutzer Quartet at Wiltons Hall in London (19 July), and classes at the Ecole Normale de Musique for the European-American Musical Alliance.
Roy then flies to Asia and Australia for solo and chamber music concerts, masterclasses and lectures at venues including the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne and Elder Conservatorium concert series in Adelaide.
Other events and Releases
Since 2005 Roy has featured on various episodes of Radio France Musique's weekly programme L'atelier du musicien. His two appearances in 2008 involved the music of Fauré. In October 2006 he was guest concert artist and lecturer at the Claude Debussy International Congress hosted by the University of Texas at Austin; in November 2007 he was Keynote speaker and piano recitalist at the International French Music conference at Laie, Hawaii.
See the Recordings page regarding Roy's various CD recordings of the last few years. His
Debussy piano series is now complete on Tall Poppies including two world premičres. Volumes 3 & 4 were each featured daily as CD of the Week on Australia's ABC Classic FM, and volume 4 as "Disque de la semaine" on Radio France Musique.
Roy Howat also offers advanced private piano tuition (e-mail for enquiries).
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