Biographies The London Theatre Voices
Robert Markham - Pianist
Was
born in East Yorkshire and earned international recognition as Finalist
in the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow. He
has also won first prizes at other competitions including the Vincenzo
Bellini Piano Competition in Italy and the Awerbuch International Piano
Competition in New York. He was the winner of the Piano Class of the
BBC Young Musician competition.
Robert
has performed extensively throughout the UK, and in continental Europe,
North America and Asia. He has been the soloist with the London
Symphony Orchestra, the Philomusica of London, the BBC Philharmonic,
and the London Mozart Players. He has performed at international
festivals in the UK, Spain, Israel and Turkey, and gave a highly
acclaimed debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in New York.
Robert
has made a number of recordings, of which the most recent is a CD of
the Wakefield-born composer Kenneth Leighton’s chamber works for piano
and strings with the Edinburgh String Quartet. Robert is much in
demand as a chamber musician and accompanist, and appears regularly
with members of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Tuncay
Yilmaz, State Soloist of the Turkish Republic, and with Mezzo-Soprano
Amy Black.
Recent
commitments have included teaching at the Birmingham International
Piano Academy in July 2007. Robert’s recent concert engagements have
included appearances at music clubs around the country, including three
recitals dedicated to the music of Beethoven and his contemporaries.
Robert’s musical interests are wide-ranging, and he is currently
engaged in research into the life and works of Sir William Sterndale
Bennett, a nineteenth century Yorkshire-born pianist and composer, and
a disciple of Mendelssohn and Schumann.
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