Malcolm Binns (born 29 January 1936)
[ is a British classical pianist.
]
Biography
Malcolm Binns was born in Nottingham
Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located south-east of Sheffield and nor ...
, England, in 1936. He studied music at the Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music (RCM) is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including pe ...
in London
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from 1952 to 1956, including piano with Arthur Alexander
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. He made his London debut in 1957 and his Wigmore Hall
The Wigmore Hall is a concert hall at 36 Wigmore Street, in west London. It was designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt and opened in 1901 as the Bechstein Hall; it is considered to have particularly good building acoustics, acoustics. It specialis ...
debut in 1958.
He has frequently appeared at the Proms
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in London,[ starting in 1960.][ In 1961 he gave the British premiere of the Piano Concerto No. 4, for left hand, by ]Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''. , group=n ( – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who l ...
.London Philharmonic Orchestra
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every year since 1962.[ He has appeared with many other orchestras and conductors internationally and performed on numerous BBC radio broadcasts.]Robert John Godfrey
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Early career
Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was privately educated in various prep schools prior ...
of progressive rock band, The Enid
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. He first started working in a chamber duo with the violinist Manoug Parikian
Manoug Parikian (15 September 1920 – 24 December 1987) was a British concert violinist and violin professor.
Early life
Parikian was born in Mersin to Armenian parents. He studied in London.
Career
Parikian made his solo début in 1947 and le ...
in 1966.[
Binns is a noted authority on British piano music, his repertoire thereof including works by ]Arnold Bax
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, Richard Rodney Bennett
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, William Sterndale Bennett
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(he has recorded 5 of the 6 piano concertos),[ ]Frank Bridge
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Life
Bridge was born in Brighton, the ninth child of William Henry Bridge (1845–1928), a violin teacher and variety theatre conductor, formerly a ...
, Benjamin Britten
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, Hamilton Harty
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After an early career as a church organist in his native Ireland, Harty moved to London at about age 20, soon becoming a ...
, John Ireland
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, Patrick Piggott, Alan Rawsthorne
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Early years
Alan Rawsthorne was born in Deardengate House, Haslingden, Lancashire, to ...
, Edmund Rubbra
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and Charles Villiers Stanford
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.
In the 1960s Binns recorded for the World Record Club, then at its peak of popularity. In the late 1970s he performed on a set of records for the L’Oiseau-Lyre label, playing original instruments (harpsichords and fortepianos) in a range of repertoire extending up to Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire ...
sonatas. He also recorded British repertoire for Lyrita, and made further recordings for Pearl, Chandos and Hyperion. His recordings include concertos by Balakirev and Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov. At the time, his name was spelled , which he romanized as Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakow; the BGN/PCGN transliteration of Russian is used for his name here; ALA-LC system: , ISO 9 system: .. (18 March 1844 – 2 ...
, the ''Transcendental Studies'' of Lyapunov, works by Hummel and Medtner, as well as works from the standard repertoire by Bartók, Brahms
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, Chopin, Falla, Franck Franck can refer to:
People
* Franck (name)
Other
* Franck, Argentina, town in Santa Fe Province, Argentina
* Franck (company), Croatian coffee and snacks company
* Franck (crater), Lunar crater named after James Franck
See also
* Franc (di ...
, Saint-Saëns, Gershwin, Grieg
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, Liszt
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, Mozart
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, Poulenc, Rachmaninoff
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, Ravel
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and Schumann
Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber ...
.[
Binns retained the same piano tuner, Alfred E Clark of Wandsworth through his performing career. Clark, was a manufacturer of pianos from their shop and factory on Wandsworth Road, destroyed in an air raid in WW2.
1n 1996 he celebrated his 60th birthday with an all-Chopin recital which included the complete studies from Opp. 10 and 25.]
References
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1936 births
Living people
British classical pianists
British male classical pianists
Musicians from Nottingham
Alumni of the Royal College of Music
Academics of the Royal College of Music
British piano educators
21st-century British classical pianists
21st-century British male musicians