Peter Donohoe

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Peter Donohoe (born June 18, 1953 in Manchester ) is an English pianist.

Life

Donohoe studied at Chetham's School of Music for seven years . He then studied composition with Alexander Goehr at Leeds University and piano with Derek Wyndham at the Royal Northern College of Music, and completed his training in Paris with Olivier Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod . In 1982 he won shared second prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition (the first prize was not awarded) and then began an international career as a concert pianist in Europe, the USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

He has worked with well-known conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach , Neeme Järvi , Lorin Maazel , Kurt Masur , Andrew Davis , Yevgeny Svetlanov , Simon Rattle , Gustavo Dudamel , Robin Ticciati and Daniel Harding and orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra , the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester and the Munich Philharmonic , the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France , the Vienna Symphony , the Czech Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic . He was a regular guest at the BBC Proms for almost twenty years and took part in the Edinburgh Festival , the La Roque d'Anthéron Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival several times . In the USA he has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and with the symphony orchestras from Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit, in Australia he has been a guest with the country's major symphony orchestras since 1984, and since 1989 he has performed several times with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra .

His long-time duo partner is the pianist Daniel Roscoe , and Donohoe has also worked with musicians such as Raphael Wallfisch , Elizabeth Watts and Noriko Ogawa . He made numerous recordings for EMI Records and was awarded the Grand Prix International du Disque Liszt and the Grammophon Concerto Award . He received honorary doctorates from the University of Birmingham , the University of Warwick , the University of East Anglia , Leicester University and The Open University and was inducted into the New Years Honors List in 2010 for his services to classical music and was ranked third Order of the British Empire awarded.

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SURNAME Donohoe, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English pianist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Manchester