Duncan Honeybourne (born 27 October 1977) is an English pianist, teacher and lecturer.

Biography

Honeybourne was born at

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. He began his studies at the

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Junior Department, where he won the senior piano prize. He gave his first London recital at the age of fifteen and toured extensively throughout Britain as solo recitalist and concerto soloist. Awarded a place to continue at the RAM, he chose instead to move to the

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where he graduated in 2000 with a B.Mus First Class Honours degree and won many prizes, and later received the honorary award of HonRBC for professional distinction. His teachers included

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and Philip Martin, and his further piano studies were in London with John York, Leeds with Fanny Waterman, and subsequently for three years on a Goldenweiser Scholarship in London with the Russian pianist Mikhail Kazakevich. He made his debut as soloist at

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and the

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, Dublin, in 1998. Honeybourne has played concertos and given recitals throughout the UK and Europe. He has been a frequent soloist on radio networks worldwide including BBC Radio 3, France Musique, ABC Classic FM (Australia) and Radio New Zealand Concert. Duncan Honeybourne is a Tutor in Piano at the University of Southampton and gives regular masterclasses and lecture recitals. Duncan Honeybourne's discography on the EM Records, Divine Art and Prima Facie labels includes the complete solo piano music of E.J. Moeran, Andrew Downes and John Joubert, and premiere recordings of works by Walford Davies and Gurney alongside music by Stanford, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Bax, Howells, Pitfield and Fleischmann. His CD "A Forgotten English Romantic", exploring the piano music of composer, poet and priest Greville Cooke, was a MusicWeb International Recording of the Year in 2014.

References

University of Southampton music staff biographies

Bryanston School music staff biographies

University of Chichester music staff biographies
* Staff writer (2005-06-09) "Leading pianist's recital". ''Newsquest Media Group Newspapers (Newsquest Digital Media)''. * ''Classical Music'' magazine (2006-04-01) ''Premieres'', p. 15 * Johnston, Leah (2003-08-07) "Musical Treat in Store", ''The Orcadian'', Kirkwall * Morley, Christopher (1998-11-19) "Two on a blind date with Mozart", ''The Birmingham Post''
Celebrating Birmingham composer's 90th birthday

Birmingham Conservatoire guide

External links

Duncan Honeybourne Official website
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