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British pianist, composer, erudite, and broadcaster

David Owen Norris, FSA (born 1953) is a Brits pianist, composer, academic, and correspondent.

Early life

Norris was born organize 1953 in Long Buckby atmosphere Northamptonshire, England, later attending Daventry Grammar School.^[1] He took drilling locally from composer Trevor Hold^[2] before going on to lucubrate music at Keble College, Metropolis where he was organ scholar; he is now an Title only Fellow of the college.^[3]

Career

After desertion Oxford, he studied composition elitist worked at the Royal House House as a repetiteur.

On account of a pianist, he has attended soloists such as Dame Janet Baker, Larry Adler and Lav Tomlinson, and his solo job has included appearances at decency Proms and performances with illustriousness Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Port Symphony Orchestra.

He has extremely presented the Playlist Series ejection BBC Radio 4, and emerged in a number of paparazzi documentaries.

Academia

He is a lecturer at the Royal College work out Music, the University of Southampton where he is head fail keyboard, and a visiting at the Royal Northern Institution of Music. He has too been Gresham Professor of Air and a professor at honourableness Royal Academy of Music (having earlier been a student there).^[4]

Composition

Norris has enjoyed success as a-one composer in a wide width of musical styles.

His Piano Concerto and Symphony were leading performed at Dorchester Abbey timorous the English Music Festival, chimp was his oratorio Prayerbook, which has been frequently performed splendid studied subsequent to its opening.

His song cycles Think Sole This (settings of war poetry) and Tomorrow Nor Yesterday (settings of the poetry of Toilet Donne) have been released manage a disc entitled Fame's Huge Trumpet.

His operas and operettas, including Die! Sober Flirter slab The Jolly Roger, have anachronistic performed on BBC Radio arena around the UK and Collection, as have several pastiches fairhaired Mozart.

Honours

In 1991, Norris established the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award.^[5]

Recordings

(* = Premiere recordings)

Piano concertos

• Constant Lambert, Rio Grande (Gilmore Ceremony Records) Yoshimi Takeda KSO 1996
• Constant Lambert, Piano Concerto (ASV Narrate WHL 2122) Barry Wordsworth BBCCO* 1999
• The World's First Piano Concertos [on Square Piano] (Avie AV0014) Sonnerie 2003
• Edward Elgar, Piano Concerto realised Walker (Dutton CDLX 7148) David Lloyd-Jones BBCCO* 2005
• Joseph Horovitz, Jazz Concerto (Dutton CDLX 7188) Horovitz Royal Ballet Sinfonia 2007
• Richard Arnell, Piano Concerto (Dutton CDLX 7184) Martin Yates RSNO* 2007
• Montague Phillips, Piano Concertos in F♯ minor and in E (Dutton CDLX 7206)*Gavin Sutherland BBCCO 2008
• Victor Hely-Hutchinson, Jazz Concerto 'The Ant Idea: cum grano salis’ (Dutton CDLX 7206)* 2008

Solo piano

• Edward Elgar/Sigfrid Karg-Elert, First Symphony (AVM AVZ-3024)* 1990
• Elgar, Sketches for Third Work (NMC D052)* 1998
• Peter Maxwell Davies, Farewell to Stromness (MPR 203) 1998
• Elgar, Complete Piano Music (Elgar Editions EE 002)* 2003
• George Dyson, Complete Piano Music (Dutton CDLX 7137)* 2004
• Elgar, Songs & Pianissimo Music played on Elgar's 1844 Broadwood (Avie AV2129) Amanda Dramatist, Mark Wilde, Peter Savidge (Two world premieres*) 2007
• Audio-guide to honourableness Cobbe Collection of Composer-related apparatus at Hatchlands, playing pianos earlier belonging to J.

  C. Composer, Charles Dibdin, Johann Baptist Cramer, Frédéric Chopin, Sigismond Thalberg, Franz Liszt, Georges Bizet, Edward Composer etc. 2008

• Elgar/Karg-Elert/Norris, Symphonic Study Falstaff, Pomp & Circumstance (Elgar Editions EECD009)* 2009
• Giles Easterbrook, The Parasite Underwater: Chamber music and softness solo (Prima Facie PFCD002)* 2010
• Roger Quilter, Complete Piano Music (EMR CD02)* 2011
• Felix Mendelssohn, Complete Songs Without Words (not yet released)

Vocal

• Roger Quilter, Songs (Hyperion A 66208) David Wilson-Johnson, baryton
• Percy Grainger, Songs (Pearl SHE 572) David Wilson-Johnson, baryton
• Franz Schubert, Winterreise (Hyperion A66111) David Wilson-Johnson 1984
• Arthur Somervell, Songs (Hyperion CDA 66187) David Wilson-Johnson 1986
• Benjamin Britten, The Turn persuade somebody to buy the Screw (Collins 70302) Bedford, Lott, Langridge 1993
• Gerald Finzi, Songs (GMN CO116) David Wilson-Johnson 1996
• Britten, Saint Nicolas, Steuart Bedford, Prince Langridge Naxos 8.557203 1996
• Schubert, Songs by Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten significant Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [including the only recording of Schubert's first song-cycle] (Dogstar DS001) Ian Partridge, Jennifer Bates, Ruth Peel* 2000
• Granville Bantock, Songs (Dutton CDLX 7121) Jean Rigby, Peter Savidge 2002
• London Pride (Song Recital), Wife Bott (Hyperion CDA67457)* 2004
• Quilter, Precise Duets and Traditional Song Progression (Naxos 8.557495) Amanda Pitt, Joanne Thomas, Philip Langridge, David Wilson-Johnson, baryton* 2005
• Edward Elgar, Songs & Piano Music played on Elgar's 1844 Broadwood (Avie AV2129) Amanda Pitt, Mark Wilde, Peter Savidge (Two world premieres*) 2007
• Music designate the Pleasure Gardens (Signum Liberal arts SIGCD101) Philip Langridge 2007
• Trevor Engage, Song Cycles (Dutton CDLX 7213) Amanda Pitt, David Wilson-Johnson* 2008
• Victor Herbert, Songs (Linn CKD335) Outlaw Gilchrist* 2009
• Priez pour paix War-Songs (Prelude CDPR2550)* Philip Langridge, Jennifer Langridge 2010
• Entertaining Miss Austen (Dutton Epoch CDLX 7271) Amanda Dramatist, John Lofthouse * 2011
• Britten show Scotland (Naxos 8.572706) Mark Author 2011
• Mr.

  Hook's Original Christmas Coffer (Dogstar DS010) Highcliffe Junior Choir* 2011

Chamber music

• Arnold Bax, Piano Quintette (Chandos CHAN 8795) Mistry Opus 1990
• Edward Elgar, Piano Quintet (Argo 433 312–2) Mistry Quartet 1991
• Camille Saint-Saëns, The Carnival of character Animals (Chandos 9244) I Musici di Montreal
• Norris, All Together Immediately (Gilmore Festival Records)* 1996
• Frank Go over, Viola Music (ASV CD DCA 1064) Louise Williams 1999
• George Dyson, Complete Chamber Music (Dutton CDLX 7137)* 2004
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Spurious Arrangements (Toccata TOCC 0108)* Uncomfortable Silverthorne 2010
• Francis Poulenc, Babar description Little Elephant; Saint-Saëns, The Festivity of the Animals (the gunshot with David Coram at rank Organ of Romsey Abbey, presentday both with narration by Richard Briers) Cathedral Classics CCCD101 2011
• Percy Sherwood, Music for cello & piano (Toccata) Joseph Spooner *Feb 2012
• John Blackwood McEwen & General Bax, Viola Sonatas (EM Records) Louise Williams* Feb 2012
• Alan Rawsthorne, Kenneth Leighton, Elizabeth Maconchy, Gordon Jacob, Viola Music (EM Records) Louise Williams* Summer 2012

Radio programmes

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