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Photo: Sussie Ahlburg
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Simon Crawford-Phillips
was awarded a scholarship in 1994 to study piano at the Royal Academy of
Music with Hamish Milne. Having won numerous awards, he graduated
with a first class honours degree and in 2000 gained his Master's Degree
at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he was awarded a
Fellowship. He continues his studies with Ferenc Rados.
Equally at home in the role of
soloist, accompanist and chamber musician Simon has built an extremely
varied career, working with instrumentalists and singers such as Emma
Bell, Emily Beynon, Alice Coote, Sarah Fox, Louise Hopkins, Mats
Lidstrom, Truls Mork, Lawrence Power James Rutherford, Ronald van
Spaendonck, Leopold String Trio and Yggdrasil String Quartet and
appearing as a guest artist with the Nash Ensemble.
His solo work has included
recitals and concertos throughout Europe, (including the Spoleto
Festival in Italy, at the invitation of Gian Carlo Menotti), Japan, and
Scandinavia. More recent solo performances have included concerti of
Beethoven, Mozart, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky and Gershwin. |
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In recent years, as a member of
the internationally acclaimed Kungsbacka
Piano Trio, Simon has given recitals at major concert
halls throughout Europe in the ECHO "Rising Stars" series.
Venues included London's Wigmore Hall, Vienna's Konzerthaus, the
Philharmonie in Cologne, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Salzburg's
Mozarteum, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Konzerthuset in
Stockholm, Athens Concert Hall, Birmingham's Symphony Hall and
Baden-Baden and also New York's Carnegie Hall, where they gave their
debut in February 2003.
Selected, with the Kungsbacka Piano
Trio, as a BBC 'New Generation Artist' in 2000, Simon
Crawford-Phillips has since recorded extensively for Radio 3.
He performs frequently at many of
the European festivals (Bath, Edinburgh, City of London, Mecklenburg,
Obertsdorf, Dubrovnik, Montpelier, Umeå and Schleswig-Holstein) and has
also been invited to the renowned Open Chamber Music Sessions at Prussia
Cove in Cornwall. Future chamber music collaborations include
return visits to the Wigmore Hall 'Young Masters' Series and
London's South Bank with Philip Moore and the Concertgebouw of
Amsterdam and a debut at the Berlin Philharmonie with the Kungsbacka
Piano Trio
Simon holds a teaching position at the Gothenburg
Conservatory and in May 2003 was elected an Associate of the Royal
Academy of Music. In addition to radio and televsion broadcasts in
Europe, Australia and Japan, he has also recorded for the Harmonia Mundi,
Naxos, Deux-Elles and Spex CD labels.
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