Philip Edward Fisher (born 1979, Birmingham, England) is an English classical pianist.

Biography

Born and raised in Birmingham, England, Philip Edward Fisher began playing the piano at the relatively late age of nine, making his

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debut only three years later with a performance of Shostakovich's Second Piano

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at the city's Symphony Hall. He attended a local

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until winning a scholarship to study at the Purcell School of Music, London, following which he continued his studies at the

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. In 2001, he received the Julius Isserlis Scholarship from the Royal Philharmonic Society of London, enabling him to take up a place at the Juilliard School, which was soon followed by his New York City debut performing Rachmaninov's Third Piano

under the baton of Larry Rachleff at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.

Performances

Philip Edward Fisher's engagements have included performances at Copenhagen's Tivoli Koncertsalen, New York City's Lincoln Center and Merkin Hall, London's Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall,

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and

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, Tampere's Tampere Hall, the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, San Antonio's

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, Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall, and Symphony Hall, Birmingham. In April 2011, he represented

Chandos Records Chandos Records is a British independent classical music recording company based in Colchester. It was founded in 1979 by Brian Couzens.International Classical Music Awards in Tampere, Finland, performing Prokofiev's 1st Piano Concerto with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra under Hannu Lintu. The event was broadcast live across Europe by Finnish Radio, Germany's MDR Figaro, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Luxembourg's

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, and Russian Orpheus Radio. Fisher has also made appearances at Music@Menlo, the Beethoven Chamber Music Festival and the Kyoto International Music Festival in Japan. He has been heard on New York's WQXR and Boston's

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, Classic FM, and has appeared on Ukrainian Television, the BBC, and

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. Fisher has performed concertos with the

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, the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, the

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, the

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, the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He has collaborated with numerous leading conductors, including Hannu Lintu,

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, Larry Rachleff,

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, James Lowe and

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. As a

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, his collaborators include the

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, tenor Robert White, pianist

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, violinists Elmar Oliviera,

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and

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, and Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic,

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Recordings

Fisher's first solo release for

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and Balakirev's Islamey, and featured on Classic FM as John Suchet's "Album of the Week",. It also received a nomination for "Best Solo Instrumental Album" at the International Classical Music Awards 2012. Other recent recordings include

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's Eight Great Keyboard Suites, in two volumes for

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. The set was released to critical acclaim, and Volume 1 entered the US Classical Billboard Chart within the first week of its release. Fisher also appears extensively as a guest artist with the

on their 2012 release ''Petit-fours'' (

Chandos Records Chandos Records is a British independent classical music recording company based in Colchester. It was founded in 1979 by Brian Couzens.English classical pianists Male classical pianists 1979 births Living people Musicians from Birmingham, West Midlands Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music Musicians from New York City 21st-century classical pianists 21st-century British male musicians