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Peter Donohoe Piano I Peter Donohoe was born in Manchester in 1953. He studied at I Chetham’s School of Music for seven years, graduated in music at I Leeds University, and went on to study at the Royal Northern College I of Music with Derek Wyndham and then in Paris with Oiivier Messiaen I and Yvonne Loriod. Since his unprecedented success as joint winner I of the 1982 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, he has I developed a distinguished career in Europe, the USA, the Far East, I New Zealand and Australia. He is acclaimed as one of the foremost I pianists of our time, for his musicianship, stylistic versatility and I commanding technique. I Recent and forthcoming engagements include appearances with the I Dresden Philharmonie Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra. RTF I National Symphony Orchestra. Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, the I BBC Philharmonie Orchestra and CBSO (linder Sir Simon Rattle), I a UK tour with the Russian State Philharmonie Orchestra, as well I as concerts in South America, Europe, Hong Kong. South Korea, I Russia, and the USA. Other engagements include perforrnances of all three MacMillian piano concertos with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, a series of concerts for the Ravel and Rachmaninov Festival at Bridgewater Hall alongside Noriko Ogawa, and perforrnances with The Orchestra of the Swan. Donohoe is also in high demand as an adjudicator at piano competitions around the world, including the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, Moscow, the Queen Elisabeth Competition, Belgium, and the Hong Kong International Piano Competition. As well as performing, Donohoe has an impressive catalogue of recordings. In 2015 he will release a disc of solo piano works by Scriabin to mark the 10Oth anniversary year of the composer’s death (SOMM Records). His third volume of Prokofiev Piano Sonatas is also due for release, again with SOMM Records. Gramophone described the first Prokofiev disc as ‘devastatingly effective’, declaring Donohoe to be ‘in his element'; and his second Prokofiev disc was given 5 stars by BBC Music Magazine. Donohoe is also set to release two discs of works by Shostakovich; a disc of preludes and fugues, and a disc of sonatas and concertos with the Orchestra of the Swan, both with Signum Records. Donohoe has performed with all the major London orchestras, as well as orchestras from across the world including Royal Concertgebouw, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Munich Philharmonie, Swedish Radio, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Vienna Symphony and Czech Philharmonie Orchestras. He has also played with the Berliner Philharmoniker in Sir Simon Rattle’s opening concerts as Music Director. He made his twenty-second appearance at the BBC Proms in 2012 and has appeared at many other festivals including six consecutive visits to the Edinburgh Festival, La Roque d'Antheron in France, and at the Ruhr and Schleswig Holstein Festivals in Germany. In the United States, his appearances have included the Los Angeles Philharmonie, Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit Symphony Orchestras. Peter Donohoe also performs numerous recitals internationally and continues working with his long Standing duo partner Martin Roscoe, as well as more recent collaborations with artists such as Raphael Wallfisch, Elizabeth Watts and Noriko Ogawa.