Peter Seivewright (born 1954 in

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, England) is a British pianist. After music studies at

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, he was a post-graduate student at the

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in Manchester, where he studied piano with

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Work with Galuppi's sonatas

Although he has released several recordings, including discs of

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, and

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, he is perhaps most known for his current endeavour to record all 90 of the keyboard

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s of

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for The Divine Art record company. This has involved him in personally researching manuscripts of Galuppi's sonatas in

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, and reportedly in editing and publishing them in due course as well. – Review of the first volume; page also includes a separate review by Peter Grahame Woolf. Reviews of Seivewright's Galuppi have been varied. Some have been impressed by Galuppi's sonatas themselves, using

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as a benchmark with one reviewer calling them "far more appealing than Scarlatti sonatas,"; – Review of the first volume; page also includes a separate review by Peter Grahame Woolf. others have made the same comparison to Galuppi's detriment ("the individual pieces lack the character and sparkling invention so typical of Scarlatti"). – Also contains reviews of the second volume from ''Fanfare,'' ''International Piano Magazine,'' etc., compiled by The Divine Art and republished at their site. Seivewright's playing has also been evaluated variously, with many reviewers applauding it. Reviewer Gerald Fenech terms him "an enthusiastic and technically accomplished pianist" who "plays with great conviction and flair in all the sonatas presented here." – Reviews compiled by The Divine Art and republished at their site. Kevin Sutton, however, complains that "The halting playing, lack of line tension and the image that I was listening to a pianist playing over, rather than through a composer continually disturbed me. (

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would have been proud.)" – Reviews compiled by The Divine Art and republished at their site.

Work with modern composers

Seivewright has also been a champion of music by living composers, having performed Rory Boyle's

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and "Moduli" (a series of piano pieces), and commissioning "A Saltire Sonata" from Robert Crawford. He also performed Martin Dalby's score for the ten-minute film for schoolchildren "Let's See: Winter."

References

External links

Biography of Peter Seivewright
at The Divine Art record company.
"Ceaseless quest for versatility"
Review of Seivewright concert from ''The Telegraph,''

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, 27 October 2006.
Peter Seivewright
page on the site of SMOLART International Artist Management Agency. {{DEFAULTSORT:Seivewright, Peter 1954 births British classical pianists Male classical pianists Living people British performers of early music 21st-century classical pianists 21st-century British male musicians