Sir Stephen Andrew Gill Hough (; born 22 November 1961) is a British-born classical pianist, composer and writer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005 and thus has dual nationality (his father was born in Australia in 1926).

Biography

Hough was born in Heswall (then in

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) on the

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, and grew up in Thelwall, where he began piano lessons at the age of five. His father, who was born in Australia, worked as a technical representative for British Steel before his death at the age of 54. At an early age, Hough was able to memorise about 100

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s and, after much pleading, his parents agreed to buy a second-hand piano, for £5 from a local antique shop, for the home. At the age of 12 he suffered what he has described as a "mini-nervous breakdown", triggered by a

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incident, which resulted in him taking almost a year off school. He studied at Chetham's School of Music, which he later described as "not a wonderful place while I was there", and at the

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. In 1978, he was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition and won the piano section. In 1982, he won the

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Award in England. In 1983, he took first prize at the Naumburg International Piano Competition in

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. Hough holds a master's degree from the

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where his studies were assisted by the receipt of the first Royal Philharmonic Society Julius Isserlis Scholarship for study abroad. He has studied with

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, Gordon Green, Adele Marcus, Martin Canin, and Derrick Wyndham. A prominent soloist, he is also a composer and transcriber, and often includes his own works in his recitals. He has published over 30 pieces. The premiere of his cello concerto, written for Steven Isserlis, took place in March 2007, and in the summer of the same year

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and

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performed

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es he wrote for them. In 2009, his trio for piccolo, contrabassoon and piano ('Was mit den Traenen geschieht') was premiered at the Philharmonie in Berlin by members of the Berlin Philharmonic. His song cycles 'Herbstlieder' (2007) and 'Other Love Songs' (2010) and 'Dappled Things' (2016) were premiered by members of The Prince Consort. His 'Sonata for Piano (broken branches)' was premiered by himself at the Wigmore Hall in 2011. In 2012 the

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and Symphonic Choir gave the world premiere of the orchestrated version of his Missa Mirabilis. This work was recorded in 2015 by the Colorado Symphony and Andrew Litton for

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. He has written four sonatas for solo piano. In 2020 his anthology of essay
Rough Ideas
won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for the Storytelling Category.

Recordings

He has recorded more than 60 CDs, one of his most notable being a set of the four Rachmaninoff piano concertos and the ''

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'', recorded during live performances with the

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under the baton of then music director Andrew Litton, which have been compared to the recordings by the composer himself. These recordings won him his seventh Gramophone Award as well as the Classical BRIT Critics Award. His recording of the five Saint-Saëns concertos won the Gramophone Record of the Year in 2001 and was later voted the Gold Disc, "winner of winners" in a poll commemorating 30 years of the award. His recording of the Complete Chopin Waltzes, won the Diapason d'Or de l'Année in 2011. He is also known for championing lesser-known composers generally considered to be outside the standard repertoire such as Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Xaver Scharwenka, York Bowen, and Federico Mompou. His own compositions can be heard on a CD called ''Broken Branches'', from

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and on the Prince Consort's CD ''Other Love Songs'' on

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. His second Piano Sonata (notturno luminoso) appears on his C
''In The Night''
and his cello sonata on a recital disc with Steven Isserlis. The

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recorded his ''Missa Mirablis'' with Andrew Litton conducting. His sequence 'Hallowed' for unaccompanied choir was recorded by

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and

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on their C
'Star of Heaven'

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recorded two of his transcriptions on his album with

Kathryn Stott Kathryn Stott (born 10 December 1958)

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His 4th piano sonata is the title track to his 2021 albu
Vida Breve
In July 2017 a CD was released on Pentatone-Oxingale Records for the inaugural opening of the Tippet Rise Festival, featuring a performance by Hough, Christopher O’Riley, and Matt Haimovitz, among others.

Teaching and writing

He is a visiting professor of piano at the

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in London and the International Chair of Piano Studies at the

in Manchester. He is also on the faculty of the

in New York. Hough joined the

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when he was 19. Twice in his life he considered becoming a priest, in particular joining the Franciscan Order. He has written about his homosexuality and its relationship with both his music-making and his religion. For some 15 years, following his Catholic vocation, he lived a life of celibacy. In 2007 he published ''The Bible as Prayer: a handbook for

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''. 'Nosing Around', his little book on perfume, was published in 2014 In 2018 Sylph Editions published his first nove
'The Final Retreat'
which explores the inner world of a priest dealing with sex addiction and religious despair. His boo
‘Rough Ideas: reflections on music and more’
is a collection of essays and short musings and was published by

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in 2019, and by

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in 2020. In 2008 he won the Sixth International Poetry Competition. Hough wrote a blog for five years (2010 to 2015) at the website of ''

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''.

Other activities

He had a solo exhibition of his paintings at the Broadbent Gallery in London in October 2012. In October 2016 Hough was the guest for

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's ''

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''. His choices were Cortot's recording of Prélude No. 17 in A-flat by Chopin, Rachmaninoff's recording of " Liebesleid" by Kreisler, " Stairway to Heaven" by

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, "Kyrie eleison" from the

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, " Lyric Suite for String Quartet" (3rd movement) by Berg, Sonata for cello and piano left hand ("Les adieux") by Stephen Hough, and " Bird Songs at Eventide" by

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. His favourite was "Proficiscere, anima Christiana (Go Forth)" from '' The Dream of Gerontius'' by

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. His book choice was a bilingual edition of Proust's '' À la recherche du temps perdu'' and his luxury item was a panama hat. He made a special request for a copy of the

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Australian connections

Hough's father was born an only child at Mayfield, a suburb of

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, in 1926. Before his first birthday his mother took him to England, settling in the North, and leaving her husband behind in Australia. The boy was always told his father had died, but in fact the father lived for a further 30 years, working in the steel industry at Newcastle. Hough's grandfather wrote Hough's father letters, none of which he ever received. Stephen Hough says his assumption of Australian citizenship was in part a tribute to his father, who wanted to return to the land of his birth but was never able to do so before his death in 1980 at the age of 54.

Honours

Hough is an Honorary Member of the

in London, where he is a visiting Professor, a Fellow of the

in Manchester, where he is the International Chair of piano studies, and an Honorary Fellow of the

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. He was given an honorary doctorate by the

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in 2011. He became the first classical music performer to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, joining prominent writers and scientists who have made significant contributions in their fields. In 2009 he was named by The Economist and Intelligent Life magazines as one of twenty living polymaths. In 2010 he was named Instrumentalist of the Year at the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards. He was a Governor of the

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Companies (The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Royal Ballet School). He is a patron of the charity The Nightingale Project, which takes music and art into hospitals and of Music in Prisons (Irene Taylor Trust). He was appointed a

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(CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to music. He was made an Honorary Bencher of the

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in 2017. In 2018 he was made an honorary member of the Royal Philharmonic Society. From 2019 he will be a visiting fellow at Lady Margaret Hall at the

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for three years. He was created a

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, for services to music, in the Queen's 2022 Birthday Honours.

Selected discography

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: Piano Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op.89; Piano Concerto No. 2 in A minor, Op.85:

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(Chandos, 1987, CHAN 8507) *Stephen Hough:

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(Virgin Classics, 1988) *''My Favorite Things: Virtuoso Encores'' ( MusicMasters, 1988; re-released by Virgin Classics as ''The Piano Album 1'', 1993, VC7595092) *

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: Fantasie and Davidbündlertänze (Virgin Classics, 1989, VC90770-2) *The Piano Album 2 (Virgin Classics, 1993, VC7593042) *

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Holiday Diary
the piano music, EMI * Xaver Scharwenka: Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor and

Emil von Sauer Emil Georg Conrad von Sauer (8 October 186227 April 1942) was a German composer, pianist, score editor, and music (piano) teacher. He was a pupil of Franz Liszt and one of the most distinguished pianists of his generation. Josef Hofmann called vo ...

: Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor ( City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster, Hyperion, 1994 CDA66790) *Piano Music by York Bowen (Hyperion, 1996) *

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: Piano Concertos (Hyperion, 1997) *Piano Music by Federico Mompou (Hyperion, 1997) *

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: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2,

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(Virgin Classics 1998) *New York Variations (Hyperion, 1998) *''Stephen Hough's New Piano Album'' (Hyperion, 1999, CDA67043) * Saint-Saëns: The Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Hyperion, 2001) *Stephen Hough's English Piano Album (Hyperion, 2002) *Hummel: Piano Sonatas (Hyperion, 2003) * Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4; ''

''; Andrew Litton/

(Hyperion CDA67501/2) *The Stephen Hough Piano Collection (Hyperion, 2005) *Liszt: '' Années de pèlerinage'' – "Première Année: Suisse", S. 160 (Hyperion, 2005) *Stephen Hough'
Spanish Album
Hyperion CDA67565, 2005 *

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:
'Man of Sorrows'
for piano & orchestra (Hyperion, 2007) Includes solo works by Schoenberg, Berg and Webern *

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br>Album
(Hyperion, 2007)
Stephen Hough in Recital
(2009) * Chopin
Late Masterpieces
(Hyperion, 2010) *

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Complete music for piano and orchestra
(Hyperion, 2010) * Chopin
Complete Waltzes
(Hyperion, 2011) *

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Edvard Grieg Edvard Hagerup Grieg ( , ; 15 June 18434 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the foremost Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use of ...

: Piano Concertos (Hyperion, 2011) *Stephen Hough
Broken Branches
(BIS 2011) *Stephen Hough'
French Album
(Hyperion, CDA67890, 2012) *

: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2,

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(Hyperion, 2013 CDA67961) *Stephen Hough
In the Night
– includes

's ''

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'' and Hough's own Sonata No 2, 'Notturno luminoso' (Hyperion, CDA67996, 2014) *

Lyric Pieces ''Lyric Pieces'' ( no, Lyriske stykker) is a collection of 66 short pieces for solo piano written by Edvard Grieg. They were published in 10 volumes, from 1867 ( Op. 12) to 1901 (Op. 71). The collection includes several of his best known pieces, ...

(Hyperion, CDA68070, 2015) * Alexander Scriabin &

Leoš Janáček Leoš Janáček (, baptised Leo Eugen Janáček; 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist, and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic musics, including Eastern European ...

: Sonatas & Poems (Hyperion, CDA67895, 2015) *

Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist exampl ...

: Concertos City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Andris Nelsons *Stephen Hough'
Dream Album
(2018)(Hyperion, CDA68176, 2018) *

: The Final Piano Pieces (2020)(Hyperion, CDA68116, 2020) *

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...

Piano Concertos (2020) *Vida Breve (2021)(Hyperion, CDA68260, 2021)

References

External links

Stephen Hough Official WebsiteCompositions at Official WebsiteHyperion Website: includes audio samples
3 July 1989
Interview on The Next Track podcast
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