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Roy Howat has given world premičres of works (some discovered by him, others written for him) by Bizet, Chabrier, Debussy, Robin Orr and Wendy Hiscocks.  He regularly sheds new light on other repertoire (including performances in Hong Kong of Mozart Piano Concertos); an antipodean tour of Bartók's Sonata for 2 pianos & percussion with Erzsébet Tusa, the former duo partner of Ditta Bartók, earned standing ovations.  His performances of Schubert's late sonatas include live broadcasts in the USA, Switzerland and Australia (including one given at 24 hours' notice, the day before he recorded a CD of Debussy). Besides Vlado Perlemuter, Roy Howat's teachers have included Wight Henderson, Michael Gough Matthews, Nina Walker, Brigitte Wild, Igor Hmelnitsky, and Jacques Février, a close associate of Ravel and Poulenc.  As a student in Paris Roy Howat played most of Debussy's piano music to Debussy's stepdaughter Dolly de Tinan, benefitting from her vivid and precise memories of how her stepfather had played his music.

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Roy Howat's tours regularly take him round the world.  He teaches and performs regularly at Summer Academies and Festivals in various continents.  In relaxed moments he has been heard participating in consorts of viols, playing Scots Highland bagpipes (including on one occasion an original-instrument introduction to Debussy’s Marche écossaise during a live broadcast from Sydney) and even, live on French Radio, singing Chabrier to his own accompaniment.  He lives in London and Paris and is one of the artists interviewed in Charles Timbrell's book French Pianism (Amadeus Press). Artists with whom Roy has performed or broadcast over the years include the Panocha Quartet, The Howat Piano Trio (with Miranda Wilson and Rickman Godlee), Quatuor Terpsichordes, Albion Ensemble and Ensemble Sarastro, singers Natalia Afeyan, John Mark Ainsley, Christine Cairns, Elizabeth Connell, Henry Herford, Naomi Itami, Adele Johnston, Michael Leighton Jones, Camille van Lunen, Rosalind Martin, Rachel Nicholls, Jacques Pottier and Damien Top, fellow-pianists Terence Dennis, Philippe Dinkel, Wendy Hiscocks, Emily Kilpatrick, Roger Nichols, Emmanuel Strosser, Susan Tomes and Erzsébet Tusa, string soloists Miwako Abe, Alban Beikircher, Nicola Benedetti, Wolfgang Boettcher, Iona Brown, Benedict Cruft, Dominique Fivaz, Saschko Gawriloff, Sebastian Hess, Neil Heyde, Werner Hink, Timothy Hugh, Steven Isserlis, David Kenedy, Laurent Korcia, Coral Lancaster, Janis Laurs, Carolyn Lam, Oliver Lewis, Andrei Melik, Krysia Osostowicz, Laurent Rochat, Robert Truman, Michael Turner, Dorothea Vogel, Vita Wallace and Moray Welsh, and wind soloists Michel Bellavance, Susan Bishop, George Caird, Nicholas Cox, Claire Fivaz, Alec Forshaw, Gareth Hulse, Thomas Indermühle, Dave Lee, Karl Leister, Andrew Marriner, John Miller, Daniel Pailthorpe, Emily Pailthorpe, Wolfgang Schultz, Milan Turkovic, Stephanie Wake-Dyster, John Wion... E-mail for concert or lecture-recital enquiries, or telephone +44 20 8648 1700  (within the UK: 020 8648 1700)

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