David Owen Norris
The pianist David Owen Norris has been active in an unusually wide variety of fields; as a pianist he has played concertos and solo recitals, and accompanied singers, and he is conversant with historical keyboard instruments. Norris is also a noted composer and educator, and he is a familiar figure on British radio and television as both a presenter and a guest.
Norris was born in 1953 in Long Buckby in Britain's Northamptonshire County. He attended Keble College at Oxford University as an organ scholar (a student employed as an assistant organist). After graduating from Oxford he studied composition, supporting himself as a rehearsal pianist at the Royal Opera House. He maintained his piano studies and early in his career served as an accompanist, working with a variety of top-level performers including soprano Dame Janet Baker and tenor Peter Pears. Norris scored a major breakthrough as a soloist when he won the inaugural Gilmore Artist Award at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1991. Since then, Norris has achieved notable success in the U.S., appearing with the Chicago and Detroit Symphony Orchestras among top ensembles. Norris' solo recitals have taken him around the world, with music of Brahms, Schubert, and Poulenc often featured. Norris has also played his own music; his output includes a piano concerto as well as a symphony, an oratorio, and two operas. He has made multiple appearances on the BBC2 television network, beginning in 1990 with the program The Real Thing?: Questions of Authenticity. Norris remains one of the few pianists equally active on a modern piano and on historical keyboard instruments. He has played very early piano concertos written in London around 1770 on a small square fortepiano of the era and, in 1984, made one of this first historically oriented recordings, with David Wilson-Johnson, of Schubert's song cycle Die Winterreise, D. 911. Norris' large recording catalog includes albums on Chandos, Hyperion, and many smaller labels. In 2019 he was heard on Hyperion's The Jupiter Project, a recording of keyboard arrangements of orchestral works by Mozart.
Norris is Professor of Musical Performance at the University of Southampton and has also taught at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music.
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Bridge: The Music for Viola
Louise Williams, David Owen Norris, Jean Rigby
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca (UMO) il 1 gen 1999
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Songs of Muriel Herbert
James Gilchrist, Ailish Tynan, David Owen Norris
Classica - Pubblicato da Linn Records il 1 mag 2009
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Now Comes Beauty
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Rupert Marshall-Luck, Roderick Williams, David Owen Norris, Gavin Sutherland
Classica - Pubblicato da EM Records il 27 mag 2016
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David Owen Norris Plays Elgar Vol. 1
Classica - Pubblicato da Elgar Editions il 29 set 2003
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Quilter: Complete Piano Music
Classica - Pubblicato da EM Records il 10 apr 2011
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Songs From The Pleasure Garden
Philip Langridge, David Owen Norris, Jennifer Langridge, Malcolm Layvield, Tristan Gurney
Musica vocale (sacra e profana) - Pubblicato da Signum Records il 1 gen 2007
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Bax: Piano Quintet in G Minor & String Quartet No. 2
David Owen Norris, Mistry String Quartet
Musica da camera - Pubblicato da Chandos il 1 ott 1990
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The World's First Piano Concertos
Classica - Pubblicato da AVIE Records il 4 giu 2006
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Viola Sonatas: Idylls & Bacchanals
Louise Williams, David Owen Norris
Musica da camera - Pubblicato da EM Records il 1 ott 2012
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Elgar: String Quartet; Piano Quintet
Mistry Quartet, David Owen Norris
Classica - Pubblicato da Decca Music Group Ltd. il 1 mag 1992
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David Owen Norris Plays Elgar Vol. 2
Classica - Pubblicato da Elgar Editions il 25 ott 2018
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Songs & Sonnets
Belinda Williams, Mark Wilde, David Owen Norris
Classica - Pubblicato da EM Records il 24 set 2019
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Ouvres pour violoncelle et piano (Intégrale)
Joseph Spooner, David Owen Norris
Musica da camera - Pubblicato da Toccata Classics il 25 giu 2012
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Percy Grainger: Folksong Arrangements
David Wilson-Johnson, David Owen Norris
Classica - Pubblicato da Heritage Records il 31 mar 2023
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Britten - Wolf - Chostakovitch
Classica - Pubblicato da Chandos il 1 set 2013
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Fame's Great Trumpet
John Donne, Mark Wilde, David Owen Norris, Joseph Spooner
Classica - Pubblicato da EM Records il 25 mag 2013
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Somervell: Maud & A Shropshire Lad
David Wilson-Johnson, David Owen Norris
Classica - Pubblicato da Hyperion il 1 ago 1990
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Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals and other Orchestral Works
Yuli Turovsky, I Musici de Montreal, David Owen Norris, Gregory Shaverdian, Marc-André Coallier
Sinfonie - Pubblicato da Chandos il 1 ott 1993
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