Kenneth Hamilton

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Kenneth Hamilton
Image:Kennethhamilton.gif Karl Green far left July 28, 1967
Background information
Birth name	Kenneth Hamilton
Origin	Scotland
Occupation(s)	Pianist

Kenneth Hamilton is a Scottish pianist, known for his virtuoso performances of Romantic music, especially Liszt, Alkan and Busoni. Hamilton's playing is characterized by spontaneity, dazzling technique and the cultivation of a wide variety of keyboard colour. He was a student of Alexa Maxwell, Lawrence Glover and the Scottish composer-pianist Ronald Stevenson (much of whose music he has publicly championed).

Hamilton is also well-known as an incisive and witty lecturer on music, and was awarded a doctorate by Balliol College, Oxford, for a dissertation on the music of Liszt. He is the author of Liszt: Sonata in B-minor (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Liszt (Cambridge University Press, 2005). His latest book, 'After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance' (Oxford University Press, 2008) discusses the differences in playing styles between pianists of the past and the present, and continues to excite lively debate in the musical world. ^[1].