Dominic John
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| Dominic John | |
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| Born | 1980  |
| Genre(s) | Anything |
| Occupation(s) | Professional Pianist |
| Instrument(s) | Piano |
Dominic John (born 1980) is a British virtuoso pianist.
John began piano lessons with his mother. He studied with Pasy Toh at the Junior Royal Academy of Music and with John Barstow and Andrew Ball at the Royal College of Music. He held the Royal College of Music Society Junior Fellowship from 2004-2006. A versatile musician, he is active as a soloist, member of various chamber ensembles and accompanist to a wide variety of singers and instrumentalists. Performances in Britain have included venues such as St. John's Smith Square, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Fairfield Hall and the Barbican Hall while overseas he has played in France, The Hague, Poland, America, Korea and Japan.
He has several prizes and awards to his name including First Prize in the 22nd Brant International Piano Competition, the prestigious Chappell Gold Medal of the Royal College of Music, a Director's Golden Jubilee Award at the Royal College, Winner of the 2004 British Music Society Awards (piano), Winner of the 2004 Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist Competition and 4th Prize in the 2005 Corpus Christi, U.S.A. International Competition for Piano and Strings. He has given Concerto performances of the Beethoven "Emperor", Grieg, Liszt No.1, Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue, Rachmaninov 3rd and Prokofiev 2nd.
Of particular note was a performance with Itzhak Perlman at an evening soirée and in 2005, the Tchaikovsky Concerto and Saint-Saens "Carnival of the Animals" with the Osaka Philharmonic in Symphony Hall, Osaka. In October 2006 he was invited back to perform the Grieg Concerto in the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne and give a masterclass to pupils at Eastbourne College. He is a staff accompanist at the Junior Department, Royal Academy of Music.
