Martin Jones (pianist)

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Martin Jones (born February 4, 1940 in Witney ) is an English pianist.

Jones studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Guido Agosti , Guy Jonson and Gordon Green . In 1968 he gave his debut concerts at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and Carnegie Hall in New York. From 1971 to 1988 he was pianist in residence at Cardiff University .

As a concert pianist he has performed in Great Britain, the USA and Canada. He performed Dmitri Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto with the London Festival Orchestra in Central and South America, played Sergei Rachmaninov's Paganini Rhapsody and George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Hallé Orchestra and Arnold Schönberg's Piano Concerto with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra .

His repertoire also includes works such as Ferruccio Busoni's piano concerto , which he performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Norman Del Mar , Xaver Scharwenka's First Piano Concerto, and compositions by English composers such as Benjamin Britten , William Mathias , John McCabe and Constant Lambert . He premiered the revised version of Alun Hoddinott 's Third Piano Concerto at the 1974 Proms and recorded his Second Piano Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Andrew Davis on Decca Records .

Since 1988 Jones devoted himself more to the recording. Recordings of the complete works for piano solo by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Johannes Brahms , Claude Debussy , Percy Grainger , Karol Szymanowski , Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Frederic Mompou , Carlos Guastavino , Enrique Granados and Igor Strawinski were made , as well as others. a. the piano sonatas of Hoddinott, sonatas by Carl Czerny and selected albums by Spanish masters. He played Percy Granger's Bridal Lullaby and Mock Morris on the soundtrack for the film Howards End Again .

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SURNAME Jones, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Witney