Andrew West
British pianist Andrew West has been among the most active and versatile collaborators in chamber music, vocal music, and duo piano music. He has also been the longtime director of the Bridging Arts Chamber Music Festival in Nuremberg, Germany (formerly the Nuremberg International Chamber Music Festival), and has made that festival a focus for the promotion of British music on the European continent. West was born in Tayport, Scotland on May 5, 1979. He attended Clare College at Cambridge University, where he studied English, earning a master's degree before switching to music and studying piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1990, West took second prize at the Geneva International Piano Competition and served as pianist-in-residence at Lancaster University from 1993 to 1999. He has toured South America, South Africa, and the U.S. as a solo pianist. The bulk of his activities since the turn of the century, however, have involved collaboration. West has performed and recorded as an accompanist to an unusually wide range of artists. These have included ongoing major partnerships with tenor Mark Padmore and flutist Emily Beynon; with the latter he recorded the complete works of flute and piano by the group of French and Swiss composers known as Les Six. But his list of collaborators also includes other singers (including Sarah Fox, James Gilchrist, Susan Gritton, and Håkan Vramsmo; chamber groups (the Lyric Quartet, with whom he has recorded an album of music by Howells), and other instrumentalists (including violinist Sarah Chang, clarinetist Emma Johnson, and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras). He has performed duo piano music with, among others, Cédric Tiberghien, and he has organized his own piano quartet, Touchwood. In 2018 alone, West appeared as accompanist on three albums: with Fox, Gilchrist, and Roderick Williams on two volumes of songs by Hubert Parry; and with Cristo Barrios on Deep Light, an album of clarinet-and-piano works. In addition to his work in Nuremberg, West is chairman and artistic director of the Kirckman Concert Society, which works to develop young musicians and shepherd them through a debut recital at London's Southbank Centre or Wigmore Hall. He teaches accompaniment courses at the Royal Academy of Music and serves as a vocal coach at Guildhall.
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Discography
15 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Parry: 12 Sets of English Lyrics, Vol. 3
Sarah Fox, Roderick Williams, Andrew West
Classical - Released by SOMM Recordings on Nov 16, 2018
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Second World War Masterpieces for Flute & Piano
Chamber Music - Released by Zefir Records on Nov 5, 2021
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Birdsong
Roderick Williams, Andrew West
Classical - Released by SOMM Recordings on Jul 16, 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Stanford: Songs of Faith, Love and Nonsense
Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West
Classical - Released by SOMM Recordings on Jan 22, 2021
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Parry: 12 Sets of English Lyrics, Vol. 2
Roderick Williams, Sarah Fox, James Gilchrist, Andrew West
Classical - Released by SOMM Recordings on Mar 30, 2018
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Façades
Andrew West, James Geer, Ronald Woodley
Chamber Music - Released by SOMM Recordings on May 15, 2020
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Project Paloma 2 Second World War Masterpieces for flute & piano
Chamber Music - Released by Zefir Records on Mar 17, 2023
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Deep Light: Clarinet Masterpieces
Chamber Music - Released by IBS Classical on Jun 1, 2018
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Howells, H.: To Chosen Hill…Chamber Music
Lyric Quartet, The, Michael Collins, Andrew West
Chamber Music - Released by Metier on Nov 26, 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Richard Strauss, Bruno Walter, Joseph Marx
Classical - Released by Linn Records on Sep 1, 2004
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Madrigali Dell'Estate
Clare McCaldin, Andrew West, Orchestra Nova Ensemble
Classical - Released by Champs Hill Records on Feb 27, 2013
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The Pre-Raphaelite Cello
Classical - To be released on May 17, 2024 by SOMM Recordings
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Debussy, Martinů, Martin & Jim Coyle: Works for Flute and Piano (Timeless)
Classical - Released by Austrian Gramophone on Sep 1, 2018
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