Barry Douglas
(born 23 April 1960 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a classical pianist and conductor.
He studied piano, cello, clarinet and organ whilst growing up in Belfast. Barry Douglas first studied in Belfast and at 16 had lessons with Felicitas LeWinter, a pupil of Emil von Sauer - a pupil of Liszt. In London he studied with John Barstow for four years and then studied privately with Maria Curcio, herself a pupil of Austrian pianist Arthur Schnabel, going on to study with the Russian pianist Yevgeny Malinin in Paris.
He won the gold medal, outright in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1986, the first non-Russian pianist to do so since Van Cliburn in 1958. Barry Douglas received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year's Honours List for services to music. He also received a Fellowship of the Royal College of Music where he is Prince Consort Professor of Piano and an Hon. Doctorate of Music from Queens University Belfast. He is Visiting Prince Consort professor of Piano at the Royal College of Music. He received an honorary Doctorate of Music from the National University of Ireland in September 2007.
His debut album was a recording of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
, in the original piano version. He has made many recordings since then and has recently (2007) completed (with Camerata Ireland) recording the five Beethoven piano concertos plus Beethoven's Triple Concerto (with Chee-Yun Kim and Andrés Díaz). He is Artistic Director of the International Piano Festival in Manchester, England and the Clandeboye Festival in Clandeboye, Bangor, County Down. He founded Camerata Ireland in 1998 which has Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Mary McAleese the President of Ireland as Joint Patrons.
He had previously won the Bronze Medal at the Van Cliburn Competition in Texas in 1985 and the top prize in the Santander Paloma O'Shea competition in Spain.
Barry Douglas increasingly devotes part of his time to conducting the Camerata Ireland orchestra. He has directed cycles of the complete Beethoven symphonies (in November 2002) and Mozart and Schubert symphonies and Mozart concertos in 2000 and 2001. He has recorded on the RCA and Satirino France labels.
He is married and has three children. He shares his time between Paris and Lurgan.
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Barry Douglas
(born
23 April 1960 in
Belfast,
Northern Ireland) is a classical pianist and conductor.
He studied piano, cello, clarinet and organ whilst growing up in Belfast. Barry Douglas first studied in Belfast and at 16 had lessons with
Felicitas LeWinter, a pupil of
Emil von Sauer - a pupil of
Liszt. In
London he studied with
John Barstow for four years and then studied privately with
Maria Curcio, herself a pupil of Austrian pianist
Arthur Schnabel, going on to study with the Russian pianist
Yevgeny Malinin in
Paris.
He won the gold medal, outright in the
International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1986, the first non-Russian pianist to do so since
Van Cliburn in 1958. Barry Douglas received the
Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year's Honours List for services to music. He also received a Fellowship of the
Royal College of Music where he is Prince Consort Professor of Piano and an Hon. Doctorate of Music from
Queens University Belfast. He is Visiting Prince Consort professor of Piano at the
Royal College of Music. He received an honorary Doctorate of Music from the
National University of Ireland in September 2007.
His debut album was a recording of
Mussorgsky's
Pictures at an Exhibition
, in the original piano version. He has made many recordings since then and has recently (2007) completed (with Camerata Ireland) recording the five
Beethoven piano concertos plus Beethoven's Triple Concerto (with Chee-Yun Kim and Andrés Díaz). He is Artistic Director of the International Piano Festival in
Manchester,
England and the Clandeboye Festival in
Clandeboye,
Bangor, County Down. He founded
Camerata Ireland in 1998 which has
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and
Mary McAleese the
President of Ireland as Joint Patrons.
He had previously won the Bronze Medal at the
Van Cliburn Competition in
Texas in 1985 and the top prize in the
Santander Paloma O'Shea competition in
Spain.
Barry Douglas increasingly devotes part of his time to conducting the
Camerata Ireland orchestra. He has directed cycles of the complete
Beethoven symphonies (in November 2002) and
Mozart and
Schubert symphonies and Mozart concertos in 2000 and 2001. He has recorded on the RCA and Satirino France labels.
He is married and has three children. He shares his time between
Paris and
Lurgan.