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Ian Brown is
a musician of great versatility whose career embraces
chamber music, solo and duo playing and conducting.
His musical life began as a bassoon player, eventually
concentrating on the piano when he became pianist-in-residence
at Southampton University.
As
concerto soloist he has appeared with many of Britain's
leading orchestras playing a diverse solo repertoire
from Bach to Rachmaninov and Bartók.
Performances
have taken him to the major European and Scandinavian
countries, the Middle East, North and South America,
Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.
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As
a duo partner he is in great demand, working with
many musicians including Mstislav Rostropovich,
Henryk Szeryng, Ruggiero Ricci, Elisabeth Söderström,
Felicity Lott, György Pauk, Ralph Kirshbaum
and James Galway.
He became pianist with The Nash Ensemble in 1978
and during this long association has played at all
the important British music festivals. He has taken
part in their annual Wigmore Hall series, each of
which has explored the musical styles of particular
countries including France, Czechoslovakia, Germany
and Russia, among others. He has also recorded extensively
with them, performing a large chamber music repertoire
from Haydn to the present day.
He has performed much contemporary music and his
interest in this field has led him to commission
new keyboard works. He was the soloist in Messiaen's
Oiseaux Exotiques at the Proms and toured Germany
with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in concerts
celebrating Hans Werner Henze's sixtieth birthday.
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