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Christopher Glynn | |
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| Born | 5 September 1974 Leicester, England |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Pianist and festival director |
Christopher Glynn is a British classical pianist and festival director. He is especially known for his work as an accompanist with many leading singers and for his work as Artistic Director of the Ryedale Festival. [1]
Born in Leicester to Roger and Judith (nee Flude) Hughes, Christopher Glynn read music at New College, Oxford and studied piano with John Streets and Malcolm Martineau at the Royal Academy of Music. He has one sister and three children.
He has subsequently performed in recital with singers including Sir Thomas Allen, Ian Bostridge, Claire Booth, Allan Clayton, Sarah Connolly, Lucy Crowe, Sophie Daneman, Bernarda Fink, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Christiane Karg, Jonas Kaufmann, Yvonne Kenny, Emma Kirkby, Felicity Lott, Christopher Maltman, Ian Partridge, Joan Rodgers, Kate Royal, Nicky Spence, John Tomlinson, Bryn Terfel, Ailish Tynan and Roderick Williams.
Glynn also performs with many well known instrumentalists and chamber ensembles, and on period pianos and fortepianos with artists including Rachel Podger.
He has also performed and recorded as a pianist with The Sixteen, Voces8 and Eric Whitacre.
Glynn performs internationally, appearing at venues such as Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall , [2] Royal Opera House, Aldeburgh Festival, Concertgebouw, Barbican, Southbank Centre, Vienna Konzerthaus and the BBC Proms.
He is especially noted for his Lieder in English initiative, longstanding collaborations with singers including Roderick Williams and Claire Booth, and a series of recordings of neglected English song composers. He has also curated concert series and festivals for the Wigmore Hall, Royal Academy of Music and the National Portrait Gallery
Glynn was awarded the accompaniment prize in the 2001 Kathleen Ferrier competition, [3] the 2002 Geoffrey Parsons Award, the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and the 2003 Gerald Moore Award.
In 2012 he won a Grammy for his performance on the Decca Light and Gold album with Eric Whitacre.
In 2021 Glynn was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.
Since 2010 Christopher Glynn has been Artistic Director of the Ryedale Festival, where he has been widely praised for the breadth and flair of his programming. [4]
He has also championed the role that regional festivals can play on the wider artistic stage. [5]
In 2015 Christopher Glynn initiated a Lieder in English project, reviving the art of translation to bring art songs and Lieder to a broader audience.
He commissioned Jeremy Sams to create new translations of Schubert's song cycles and later recorded them for Signum Records with singers including Roderick Williams, John Tomlinson and Nicky Spence. [6]
Subsequent projects have included translations of Hugo Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch and song cycles by Robert Schumann and Brahms.
The project was described by The Telegraph as ‘quietly daring yet superbly accomplished’ and by The Guardian as ‘an unusually direct Lieder experience’ [7]
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