David Pyatt
David Pyatt (born 26 September 1973) is a horn player from Watford, England. In 1988, aged 14, he became the then youngest winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. In 1996 Gramophone Magazine announced David Pyatt as their Young Artist of the Year. Pyatt studied at Watford Grammar School for Boys, followed by Selwyn College, Cambridge.[1]
His subsequent solo career saw his debut at the BBC Proms in 1993 performing Strauss' Second Horn Concerto. In 2004 he played Strauss' First Horn Concerto at the Last Night of The Proms, and also appeared at the Edinburgh Festival playing the Weber concertino for horn.
Pyatt was Principal Horn of the London Symphony Orchestra from the 1998/9 season.
In 2013 Pyatt joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra as joint principal.
References
- Artist profile at Clarion Seven Muses
- Profile at BBC Young Musician of the Year
- Biography at Concert Artist
- ↑ PYATT, David John, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
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