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
Classical - Lançado por Decca (UMO) em 01/01/1999
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Songs of Muriel Herbert
James Gilchrist, Ailish Tynan, David Owen Norris
Classical - Lançado por Linn Records em 01/05/2009
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Now Comes Beauty
The BBC Concert Orchestra, Rupert Marshall-Luck, Roderick Williams, David Owen Norris, Gavin Sutherland
Classical - Lançado por EM Records em 27/05/2016
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Quilter: Complete Piano Music
Classical - Lançado por EM Records em 10/04/2011
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Bax: Piano Quintet in G Minor & String Quartet No. 2
David Owen Norris, Mistry String Quartet
Chamber Music - Lançado por Chandos em 01/10/1990
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The World's First Piano Concertos
Classical - Lançado por AVIE Records em 04/06/2006
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Viola Sonatas: Idylls & Bacchanals
Louise Williams, David Owen Norris
Chamber Music - Lançado por EM Records em 01/10/2012
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Elgar: String Quartet; Piano Quintet
Mistry Quartet, David Owen Norris
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 01/05/1992
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Songs & Sonnets
Belinda Williams, Mark Wilde, David Owen Norris
Classical - Lançado por EM Records em 24/09/2019
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Ouvres pour violoncelle et piano (Intégrale)
Joseph Spooner, David Owen Norris
Chamber Music - Lançado por Toccata Classics em 25/06/2012
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Percy Grainger: Folksong Arrangements
David Wilson-Johnson, David Owen Norris
Classical - Lançado por Heritage Records em 31/03/2023
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Britten - Wolf - Chostakovitch
Classical - Lançado por Chandos em 01/09/2013
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Fame's Great Trumpet
John Donne, Mark Wilde, David Owen Norris, Joseph Spooner
Classical - Lançado por EM Records em 25/05/2013
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Somervell: Maud & A Shropshire Lad
David Wilson-Johnson, David Owen Norris
Classical - Lançado por Hyperion em 01/08/1990
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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
Symphonies - Lançado por Chandos em 01/10/1993
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