Roderick Chadwick
British pianist Roderick Chadwick has been a major force in contemporary music, as both a performer and an educator at the Royal Academy of Music. Chadwick was born in Manchester, England, in 1978. When he was seven, a piano teacher, Heather Slade-Lipkin, spotted his interest in a harpsichord and suggested a keyboard lesson, which turned into a ten-year relationship. Chadwick attended Chetham's School, moving on to St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and then the Royal Academy of Music, where his teacher was Hamish Milne. Chadwick earned the Masco Carner Fellowship in 1997-1998, and joined the staff of the Royal Academy the following year. He has performed around Europe, Britain, the U.S., and Asia, including at the Seoul Arts Centre, Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, Wigmore Hall, and others. Chadwick has also founded his own Plus-Minus Ensemble and has performed with other chamber groups.
In the 2010s he has recorded energetically for the Naxos label, performing mostly but not exclusively contemporary music; his debut with the label was a 2013 recording of Leopold Godowsky's Twelve Impressions. The following year, for the Metier label, he recorded Michael Finnissy's completion of the fragmentary Grieg Piano Quintet in B flat minor with the Kreutzer Quartet. In 2018 he performed on recordings of chamber music by Gloria Coates (for Naxos) and Jeremy Dale Roberts (for Toccata Classics). Chadwick has experimented with unusual instruments and media, performing Jim Aitchison's composition Portraits for a Study: the work involved playing a Yamaha Disklavier and having his performance transmitted by Internet to various audiences in London, who saw an apparently playerless piano. In performance he has been especially associated with the music of Messiaen, whose Ile de Feu originally inspired him to devote his career to the piano; he is the co-author (with Peter Hill) of a book about that composer's Catalogue d'Oiseaux.
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Discography
17 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Karlheinz Stockhausen: Mantra (1970)
Mark Knoop, Roderick Chadwick, Newton Armstrong
Classical - Released by hat[now]ART on 9 Feb 2015
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Souvenirs d’oiseaux
Classical - Released by Divine Art on 14 Apr 2023
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The Great Violins, Vol. 2: Niccolò Amati
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Roderick Chadwick
Chamber Music - Released by Athene on 8 Jul 2016
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Gregory Fritze: Spanish Meditations and Dances
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Roderick Chadwick
Classical - Released by Divine Art on 14 Apr 2023
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Thomas Simaku: Works for Violin & Piano
Joseph Houston, Peter Sheppard Skærved, Chris Orton, Roderick Chadwick
Chamber Music - Released by Naxos on 9 Aug 2019
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Henze: Violin & Viola Works
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Roderick Chadwick
Classical - Released by Naxos on 8 Jun 2018
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Edward Cowie: Bird Portraits
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Roderick Chadwick
Chamber Music - Released by Metier on 12 Nov 2021
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La mer bleue
Roderick Chadwick, Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Shir Victoria Levy
Classical - Released by Divine Art on 9 Oct 2020
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Quatuor à cordes n°9
Kreutzer Quartet, Peter Sheppard Skærved, Neil Heyde, Roderick Chadwick
Chamber Music - Released by Naxos on 21 Sep 2010
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Coates: Piano Quintet & Symphony No. 10
Kreutzer Quartet, CalArts Orchestra, Roderick Chadwick, Susan Allen
Classical - Released by Naxos on 8 Jun 2018
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Peter Dickinson: Chamber & Instrumental Music
Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Kreutzer Quartet, Roderick Chadwick
Classical - Released by Toccata Classics on 17 Jan 2020
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Cowie: Where Song Was Born
Sara Minelli, Roderick Chadwick
Chamber Music - Released by Metier on 11 Mar 2022
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Grieg: Piano Quintet in B Flat Major, EG. 118 - Finnissy: Grieg-Quintettsatz
Roderick Chadwick, Kreutzer Quartet
Chamber Music - Released by Metier on 4 Feb 2014
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Roberts: Chamber & Instrumental Music
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Kreutzer Quartet, Roderick Chadwick, Bridget MacRae
Chamber Music - Released by Toccata Classics on 27 Apr 2018
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Nicola Campogrande: La dolce Italia
Classical - Released by Nicola Campogrande on 2 Nov 2010
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Mihailo Trandafilovski: Diptych
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Kreutzer Quartet, Longbow, Roderick Chadwick
Chamber Music - Released by Metier on 18 May 2018
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Trajectories: Music by David Gorton
Neil Heyde, Kreutzer Quartet, Peter Sheppard Skærved, Roderick Chadwick
Classical - Released by Metier on 8 Jun 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo