Ian WATSON
British organist, harpsichordist, pianist, and conductor Ian Watson is a native of Wooburn Common, Buckinghamshire. At 14 he attended the Royal Academy of Music on a scholarship, and later studied with Flor Peeters in Belgium. He held several positions in London, playing organ at St. Margaret's, Westminster and St. Marylebone Parish Church, and serving as director of music at St. James's, Piccadilly. As a concert artist, Watson has performed with many orchestras, among them the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Academy of Ancient Music, and he toured internationally with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Watson has also performed as an accompanist, notably with Renée Fleming, and he played and conducted a series of Mozart's piano concertos with the Dalarna Sinfonietta in Sweden. He became artistic director of the Arcadia Players in 2003, and in 2004 he led the Monteverdi Choir in a performance of Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine in San Marco, Venice. Watson is also active as the principal guest conductor of the Karlsbad Baroque in Sweden. He has recorded for Coro, Simax, Virgin Classics, and Hyperion.
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Discography
12 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Walton: Richard III, Macbeth & Major Barbara
Sir Neville Marriner, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir John Gielgud, Ian WATSON
Cinema Music - Released by Chandos on 1 Jan 1991
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Messes
Ian WATSON, St. Margaret's Westminster Singers, Richard Hickox
Sacred Vocal Music - Released by Chandos on 1 Sep 2007
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The Best-Loved Baroque Concertos
Ian WATSON, English Chamber Orchestra
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 6 Aug 2007
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Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin Volume 4
Chamber Music - Released by CORO Connections on 1 Jun 2018
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The Beethoven Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin Collection
Chamber Music - Released by CORO Connections on 7 Feb 2020
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Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin, Vol. 2
Chamber Music - Released by Coro on 27 May 2016
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Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin, Vol. 3
Chamber Music - Released by Coro on 2 Jun 2017
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Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin Volume 1
Chamber Music - Released by Coro on 1 Jun 2015
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Rubbra: Missa cantuariensis, Dormi Jesu, That Virgin's Child Most Meek & Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici
St Margarets Westminster Singers, Richard Hickox, Ian WATSON
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released by Chandos on 1 Sep 2007
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Sonata for Fortepiano and Violin No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 12 No. 3: I. Allegro con spirito
Chamber Music - Released by CORO Connections on 6 Apr 2018
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Ian Watson - Less Is More
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Conscious TV Ltd on 31 Jul 2015
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Elspeth Brooke: Green Spring
Classical - Released by NMC Recordings on 21 Apr 2017
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