Joanna MacGregor
Joanna Clare MacGregor CBE (born July 16, 1959 ) is a British concert pianist, conductor, festival director and professor at the Royal Academy of Music .
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Joanna MacGregor grew up in north London, her mother was a piano teacher and her father worked in the printing trade. She was taught as a pianist at the Royal Academy of Music (as a student of Christopher Elton) and studied composition at Cambridge University (New College 1978-1981) with Hugh Wood. She then went back to the Royal Academy of Music , where she became head of the piano section in 2011.
She also made a career as a concert pianist. At the beginning of her career she composed for the theater. In addition to classical repertoire (such as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Scarlatti, Ravel, Debussy, Messiaen) and contemporary music, she has also given a number of premieres and gives them on behalf of her function as conductor and festival director. MacGregor has performed in over 70 countries. She has also conducted since 2002, for example in close collaboration with the Britten Sinfonia . In a project with the Britten Sinfonia she combined music by Moondog with Bach's Art of Fugue and in 2009 she opened the London Jazz Festival with a concert by the Britten Sinfonia with Dhafer Youssef . She also works a lot with jazz and world music performers. She toured South Africa with Moses Molelekwa and works regularly with saxophonist Andy Sheppard . In 2002 she toured China with a specially assembled orchestra that mixed traditional Chinese music with computer technology.
She has played with major orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra , the Berlin Philharmonic , Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra , the Camerata Salzburg and with conductors such as Pierre Boulez , Simon Rattle , Valery Gergiev , Michael Tilson Thomas , Colin Davis , and others Leipzig Gewandhaus , the Royal Albert Hall (2013 Goldberg Variations by Bach), Concertgebouw and Mozarteum (with the Goldberg Variations by Bach).
From 2006 to 2012 she was artistic director of the Bath International Music Festival . She has been Artistic Director of the International Summer School & Festival at Dartington Hall since 2014 .
She wrote books for children's piano lessons ( Piano World , Faber Music 2001) and a radio play about Erik Satie . She founded her own label SoundCircus.
1991 to 1993 she initiated the festival for contemporary and improvised music Platform 1 to 3 in London. In 1997 she became a professor at Gresham College , London, where she also gave public lectures. In 2010 she curated the Deloitte Ignite Festival of the Arts at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
From 1998 to 2004 she was a member of the Arts Council of England . She has been an OBE since 2012 and an honorary doctorate from the Open University and the University of Cambridge (2016).
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | MacGregor, Joanna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | MacGregor, Joanna Clare (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British concert pianist and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1959 |