Martin Roscoe

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Martin Roscoe (3 August 1952 – ) is an English classical pianist. He teaches piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the Department of Keyboard Studies. He performs as a concerto soloist, as a recitalist and as a chamber musician.^[1]

1 Early life
2 Career
3 Discography
4 Notes

[edit] Early life

Martin Roscoe was born in Halton, Runcorn, Cheshire. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music with Gordon Green and Marjorie Clementi.^[2] Awards early in his career included the Davas Gold Medal in 1973, the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians in 1974, the British Liszt Piano Competition in 1976^[3] and he was a prizewinner in the Sydney International Piano Competition in 1981.^[4]

[edit] Career

Roscoe has developed close links with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Manchester Camerata.^[2] He has played as a soloist under many of the world's leading conductors, including Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano, Libor Pešek, Luciano Berio, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Andrew Litton and Mark Wigglesworth.^[1]^[5] He gives regular recitals at the Wigmore Hall. Roscoe has appeared in BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts on six occasions and has made over 300 broadcasts with the BBC. He has an international reputation and has played in many countries, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, South America, Australia, USA and France.^[5]

As a student he formed a piano duo with Peter Donohoe and they have performed and made recordings together since. Their recording of music by Gershwin on Carlton Classics was chosen as Editor's Choice in the August 1997 issue of Gramophone.^[5] As a chamber musician he has performed with Tasmin Little, Emma Johnson, Steven Isserlis, Michael Collins, Steven Osborne, the Leopold String Trio and the Chilingirian, Vanbrugh, Tale, Schidlof, Carmina, Brodsky, Endellion and Sorrel String Quartets.^[1]^[5] The details of Roscoe's recordings are shown in the table below.

Before becoming a teacher at the Guildhall School, Roscoe had held positions at the Royal Northern College of Music^[2] and the Royal Academy of Music.^[1] He is the artistic director of the Beverley Chamber Music Festival and the Ribble Valley International Piano Week.^[1] He has been granted an honorary Doctorate of Music by the University of Hull.^[3]

[edit] Discography

Year	Title	Composer	Record Company	Reference	Other artistes
1993	Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Op 5 Piano Concerto No 2 in B minor Op 42	Dohnányi	Hyperion	CDA66684^[6]	BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
1993	Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes	Copland	ASV Platinum	PLT 8504^[7]	Michael Collins, clarinet Vanbrugh Quartet
1994	Dolly Suite	Fauré	Hyperion	CDA66911/4^[8]	Kathryn Stott, piano
1994	Dance Suite Op 28 Piano Concerto Op 26 Variations Op36	Bernard Stevens	Marco Polo	8.223480^[9]	Ireland National Symphony Orchestra
1994	Fratres (1980); Spiegel im Spiegel	Arvo Pärt	EMI Classics for Pleasure	5758052^[10]	Tasmin Little, violin
1995	Piano Works, Volume 1	Szymanowski	Naxos	8.553016^[11]
1995	Quintet for Piano and Strings, Op. 67 Trio for Piano and Strings Sonata for Viola/Cello and Piano	Amy Beach Rebecca Clarke Rebecca Clarke	ASV	932^[12]	Endellion String Quartet
1996	Piano Works, Volume 2	Szymanowski	Naxos	8.553300^[13]
1996	Piano Works, Volume 3	Szymanowski	Naxos	8.553867^[14]
1997	Rhapsody in Blue Porgy and Bess Fantasia	Gershwin	Carlton Classics	30368 01297^[15]	Peter Donohoe, piano
1998	Piano Concerto No 1 in F major Op 10 Piano Concerto No 2 in C major Op24	Ignaz Brüll	Hyperion	CDA67069^[16]	BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
1998	Piano Sonatas	Clementi	CRD Records	CRD 3500^[17]
1998	Violin Sonata Violin Sonata No 2 in D minor	Elgar Bax	Global Music Network	GMNC 0113^[18]	Tasmin Little, violin
1998	Works for cello and piano	Rachmaninov	Black Box	BBM1044^[19]	Moray Welsh, cello
2001	Peacock Pie	Various	Hyperion	CDA67316^[20]	Guildhall Strings
2001	Piano Concerto in B flat minor Op 27 Piano Concerto in B flat major	Robert Fuchs Friedrich Kiel	Hyperion	CDA67354^[21]	BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
2002	Concerto for two pianos and orchestra	Bliss	Naxos	8.557146^[22]	Peter Donohoe, piano Royal Scottish National Orchestra
2002	Music for two pianos	Rachmaninov	Naxos	8.557062^[23]	Peter Donohoe, piano
2002	The Berserking	James MacMillan	Chandos	CHAN 10092^[24]	BBC Philharmonic
2002	Warsaw Concerto from Dangerous Moonlight	Richard Addinsell (arr. Ray Douglas)	Chandos	CHAN 10046^[25]	BBC Philharmonic
2003	Visions de l'Amen	Messiaen	Hyperion	CDA67366^[26]	Steven Osborne, piano
2003	Piano transcriptions	Bach, transcribed Samuil Feinberg	Hyperion	CDA67468 ^[27]
2003	Phantasy, Piano Quartet in F # minor	Bridge	Naxos	8.557283^[28]	Maggini Quartet
2003	Piano Works, Volume 4	Szymanowski	Naxos	8.557168^[29]
2004	From The Unforgettable Year 1919	Shostakovich	Chandos	CHAN 10361^[30]	BBC Philharmonic
2005	Piano Quintet, Op. 57	Shostakovich	Chandos	CHAN 10329^[31]	Sorrel Quartet
2005	Ballade No 1 Ballade Kreisleriana	Chopin Robert Keeley Schumann	Dunelm	DRD0247^[32]
2006	Music for two pianos	Bax	Naxos	8.570413^[33]	Ashley Wass, piano
2006	Violin Sonata in D, Op. 12 No 1 Violin Sonata in C minor, Op. 30 No. 2 Violin Sonata in G, Op. 96	Beethoven	ASV Gold	GLD4023^[34]	Peter Cropper, violin
?	Silentium	Arvo Pärt	EMI Classics	5624342^[35]