Dominic John (born 1980) is a British

pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

. John began piano lessons with his mother. He studied with Patsy Toh at the Junior

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, and with John Barstow and Andrew Ball at the

Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music is a music school, conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the Undergraduate education, undergraduate to the Doctorate, doctoral level in a ...

. He held the Royal College of Music Society Junior Fellowship from 2004-2006. He is active as a soloist, member of various chamber ensembles, and accompanist to singers and instrumentalists.Biography
Haverhill Sinfonia website Awards include the Chappell Gold Medal of the Royal College of Music, and he was the winner of the 2004 British Music Society Awards (piano), John performed with violinist

Itzhak Perlman Itzhak Perlman ( he, יצחק פרלמן; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist widely considered one of the greatest violinists in the world. Perlman has performed worldwide and throughout the United States, in venues that hav ...

at an evening soirée. In 2005, he performed Tchaikovsky's ''

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'' and Saint-Saëns' '' Carnival of the Animals'' with the

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in Symphony Hall,

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. In October 2006 he was invited to perform Grieg's ''

'' in the Congress Theatre,

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, and gave a masterclass to pupils at

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. He is a staff accompanist at the Junior Department, Royal Academy of Music. John's first commercial recording, ''Wild About Transcription...'' was released by Willowhayne Records in July 2014. He is a regular guest entertainer on P & O Cruises & Cunard Line.

References

External links

List of concerts at oclassical.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:John, Dominic British classical pianists 1980 births Living people Alumni of the Royal College of Music Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music Academics of the Royal Academy of Music 21st-century British pianists