CHARLES OWEN began his musical studies at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Seta Tanyel and continued at the Royal College of Music under
the guidance of Irina Zaritskaya. While at the college he won all the major piano prizes before completing his studies with Imogen Cooper.
He received the Silver Medal at the Scottish International Piano Competition (1995) and was a finalist in the 1996 London Philharmonic/Pioneer
Young Soloist of the Year competition. In 1997 he won the prestigious Parkhouse Award in partnership with violinist Katharine Gowers.
Charles has performed in many of Britain’s leading concert halls including the Barbican, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall and Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Internationally, he has appeared at the Lincoln Center and Carnegie/Weill Recital Hall in New York, the Brahmssaal in the Vienna Musikverein, the Paris Louvre, the St Petersburg Philharmonic and the Moscow Conservatoire.
Charles has performed with celebrated orchestras including the Philharmonia, Royal Scottish National, English Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Lodz Filharmonia and the Moscow State Academic Symphony. He has also collaborated with many outstanding artists including violinists Antje Weithaas, Chloe Hanslip, Henning Kraggerud, Jack Liebeck, Renaud Capucon and Catherine Leonard as well as cellists Adrian Brendel, Natalie Clein, Guy Johnston, Paul Watkins and Tim Hugh. In addition, Charles has appeared in performances with the Wihan, Vertavo and Vogler quartets and the Haffner Wind Ensemble.
Charles has performed in many of Britain’s leading concert halls including the Barbican, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall and Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Internationally, he has appeared at the Lincoln Center and Carnegie/Weill Recital Hall in New York, the Brahmssaal in the Vienna Musikverein, the Paris Louvre, the St Petersburg Philharmonic and the Moscow Conservatoire.
Charles has performed with celebrated orchestras including the Philharmonia, Royal Scottish National, English Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Lodz Filharmonia and the Moscow State Academic Symphony. He has also collaborated with many outstanding artists including violinists Antje Weithaas, Chloe Hanslip, Henning Kraggerud, Jack Liebeck, Renaud Capucon and Catherine Leonard as well as cellists Adrian Brendel, Natalie Clein, Guy Johnston, Paul Watkins and Tim Hugh. In addition, Charles has appeared in performances with the Wihan, Vertavo and Vogler quartets and the Haffner Wind Ensemble.
As a solo recitalist and chamber musician he has played for numerous concert societies and established festivals in the UK and internationally
including the Homecoming Festival in Moscow, Ireland’s West Cork Chamber Music Festival and the Vogler Spring Festival in County Sligo, the
Perth International Music Festival in Western Australia, the Oxford Chamber Music Festival, the Elverum Festival in Norway, the Leicester
International Festival, Sheffield’s Music in the Round, the Worcester Three Choirs Festival and festivals in Bath, Cheltenham, Chester and Harrogate.
His first solo disc, featuring the piano music of Leos Janácek was listed as a “key” recording in The Penguin Good CD Guide. A highly acclaimed disc of works by Poulenc was selected as Editor’s Choice in the June 2004 edition of Gramophone and was subsequently nominated for a Classical Brit Award in 2005. An EMI Classics for Pleasure recording of cello and piano sonatas by Brahms and Schubert, with Natalie Clein, won a Classical Brit Award in 2005. His most recent recording, again with Natalie Clein, features works by Rachmaninoff and Chopin.
A recording for ASV of Richard Strauss’ Lieder, with soprano Patricia Rozario, will be released later this year. A disc of the 13 Nocturnes by Fauré, on the Avie label, is due to be released in Spring 2008.
Charles Owen is a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
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His first solo disc, featuring the piano music of Leos Janácek was listed as a “key” recording in The Penguin Good CD Guide. A highly acclaimed disc of works by Poulenc was selected as Editor’s Choice in the June 2004 edition of Gramophone and was subsequently nominated for a Classical Brit Award in 2005. An EMI Classics for Pleasure recording of cello and piano sonatas by Brahms and Schubert, with Natalie Clein, won a Classical Brit Award in 2005. His most recent recording, again with Natalie Clein, features works by Rachmaninoff and Chopin.
A recording for ASV of Richard Strauss’ Lieder, with soprano Patricia Rozario, will be released later this year. A disc of the 13 Nocturnes by Fauré, on the Avie label, is due to be released in Spring 2008.
Charles Owen is a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
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photo: jack liebeck