Lucy Parham (born 1966) is a British concert pianist and academic. She is a professor at
The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1984 she won Piano Class
BBC Young Musician
BBC Young Musician is a televised national music competition broadcast biennially on BBC Television and BBC Radio 3. Originally BBC Young Musician of the Year, its name was changed in 2010.
The competition, a former member of the European Unio ...
.
Biography
Parham grew up in Guildford, Surrey. She was educated at
Bedales School
Bedales School is a co-educational, boarding and day independent school in the village of Steep, near the market town of Petersfield in Hampshire, England. It was founded in 1893 by John Haden Badley in reaction to the limitations of conven ...
, Hampshire and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under concert pianist, Professor
Joan Havill.
Parham has played in the UK and internationally, and is a regular contributor for
BBC Radio 3. She has performed as a concerto soloist with
The London Philharmonic,
Royal Philharmonic
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London, that performs and produces primarily classic works.
The RPO was established by Thomas Beecham in 1946. In its early days, the orchestra secured profitable ...
,
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic is a music organisation based in Liverpool, England, that manages a professional symphony orchestra, a concert venue, and extensive programmes of learning through music. Its orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmon ...
,
The Halle, RTE Orchestra,
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) ( gd, Orcastra Nàiseanta Rìoghail na h-Alba) is a British orchestra, based in Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of the five national performing arts companies of Scotland. Throughout its history, the O ...
, Russian State Symphony Orchestra and on three tours with the
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
The Sofia Philharmonic ( Bulgarian: Софийска филхармония) was founded in 1928. The current music director is Nayden Todorov.
Sofia Philharmonic includes the National Philharmonic Orchestra, National Philharmonic Choir "Svetos ...
and the
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (NOSPR), is one of Poland's radio orchestra and premier musical institutions. It was founded in 1935 in Warsaw. In 1945 the orchestra was re-established in Katowice and since 2006 it has become a "Nati ...
.
In 2002 she joined the
BBC Concert Orchestra
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and conductor
Barry Wordsworth
Barry Wordsworth (born 20 February 1948, Worcester Park, Surrey, U.K.) is a British conductor.
Wordsworth is Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Ballet and has had a long relationship with company. He was first appointed as Assistant Cond ...
on a six-week 50th anniversary tour of the US.
Parham is known for her Composer Portrait series of concerts and her interpretation of the music of
Robert Schumann and
Clara Schumann
Clara Josephine Schumann (; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a ...
. She produced I Clara, to coincide with the bicentenary of
Clara Schumann's birth in 2019. She has also produced and performed Composer Portraits of Claude Debussy and Chopin
She was artistic director of the
Kings Place
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Coffee Concerts and of the Guildhall Spring Festival.
Frequent collaborators include actors
Juliet Stevenson
Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson, (born 30 October 1956) is an English actor of stage and screen. She is known for her role in the film ''Truly, Madly, Deeply'' (1991), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leadi ...
,
Harriet Walter
Dame Harriet Mary Walter (born 24 September 1950) is a British actress. She has received a Laurence Olivier Award as well as numerous nominations including for a Tony Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2011 ...
,
Sheila Hancock and
Henry Goodman
Henry Goodman (born 23 April 1950) is a RADA trained British actor. He has appeared on television and radio, in film and in the theatre.
Early life
He attended the Central Foundation Boys' School and joined the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, L ...
.
References
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1966 births
Living people
People educated at Bedales School
Academics of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
21st-century classical pianists
British classical pianists