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Andrew WildeBiography"...the performance took wing in a state of something approaching ecstasy..." commented The Times following Andrew Wilde’s Haydn / Chopin recital at the Wigmore Hall. Andrew Wilde studied with Kathleen McGrath and Jacqueline Williamson at Manchester’s Chetham’s School of Music as well as with Ryszard Bakst, with whom he continued his work at the Royal Northern College of Music. He also studied with Sulamita Aronovsky at the RNCM as well as privately with Noretta Conci and Jan Ekier. He made his London début at the Royal Festival Hall in 1986 with the London Philharmonic, since when he has appeared as soloist with most of the major London and regional orchestras. He received top prizes at many international piano competitions including the Naumburg in New York (1987), the Pozzoli in Seregno (Italy) (1988), the William Kapell in Maryland (1989), the Dino Ciani in Milan (1990), and the World Competition in London (1991). He made his American début with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, DC, and the Dallas Symphony, whilst his last US recital was enthusiastically received: "Anyone aware of the best of English pianism from Myra Hess and Solomon to Clifford Curzon and John Ogdon will recognize the sterling traits these artists possessed when they crop up in a younger compatriot such as Andrew Wilde." His Queen Elizabeth Hall recital début at the South Bank Centre in London held a near-capacity audience in rapt attention, and of his German début recital the following season, the Rheinische Post noted: "The young Brit Andrew Wilde is an absolutely convincing pianist who can draw the public with his playing into his spell of magic." His two programmes at the Wigmore Hall, of Beethoven Sonatas and another of Haydn Sonatas and Variations, have been outstanding successes and his Chopin recital at the Queen Elizabeth Hall during the sesquicentennial year of the composer’s death 1999 took him to the heights of critical acclaim when The Independent wrote, "The qualities of Andrew Wilde have been compared to Myra Hess and Solomon. His QEH recital on Wednesday made apparent why." Andrew Wilde’s Manchester recitals have attracted capacity houses and wonderful reviews: "... this is the stuff of which pianistic legends are made" noted the Manchester Evening News. He was the first British pianist to give a full recital at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, during the hall’s opening season in 1996-97. His Haydn recital on Collins Classics met with an enthusiastic critical response and a number of major awards from the industry. During the 2004-05 season, with the great Hungarian violinist Vilmos Szabadi, he will give a cycle of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas. The tour will include the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England and the Spring Festival in Budapest. See Andrew Wilde's 2004 Opening Concert Program.Contact Gold Country Piano InstituteAddress: P.O. Box 1321, Nevada City, CA 95959-1321
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