Meet Siwan Rhys
UK’s leading contemporary classical pianist. Modest, compassionate, and downright talented. Her clear and calm guidance combined with Olympic pianistic precision makes Siwan a one-of-a-kind teacher. Generously patient with a calming presence on her students, many who have studied with her for years reflecting her tenure at the school for the last decade, whilst her international pianist career continues to flourish.
Siwan's Bio...
Since Siwan joined LCSP 10 years ago, her teaching diary has been booked out, as most students who work with Siwan never leave due to her expertise and world-class authority, combined with much humour and empathy.
Siwan’s website indicates her international presence in the contemporary music scene.
PERFORMANCES
Siwan has played at Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, St David’s Hall, Purcell Room, and as part of the BBC Proms and Aldeburgh Festival. She has also performed in alternative concert settings with initiatives such as Nonclassical, Live Music Now, and Multi-Story. She has recorded many times for BBC1, S4C, BBC Radio 3, and BBC Radio Cymru.
She’s worked with the London Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Mahogany Opera Group, Gare St Lazare Ireland, Rambert Dance, and Multi-Story Orchestra, with conductors François-Xavier Roth, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Jesús López Cobos, Richard Baker, and Elgar Howarth amongst others.
Recent concerts include performances of Charles Ives’ ‘Concord Sonata’ in France as part of the Oeuvres Monstres series, Viver’s Shiraz at the Occupy the Pianos festival, several performances of Stockhausen’s Kontakte, and Feldman’s four-hour masterpiece For Philip Guston at the Principal Sound Festival.
CONTEMPORARY SPECIALIST
Siwan’s wealth of contemporary music experience and rare specialist technical expertise puts her in extremely high demand at the London Contemporary School of Piano from music producers, DJs, Classical pianists who require more contemporary knowledge, pianists who require precise technique, as well as those who study our Contemporary Harmony Method.
Siwan has played at prestigious British venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Hall, St David’s Hall, Symphony Hall, and abroad at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Tokyo Opera City, Philharmonie de Paris, Shanghai Symphony Hall, Esplanade Singapore and others. She has also appeared at the BBC Proms, Aldeburgh Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Cheltenham Festival, London Contemporary Music Festival, and has recorded many times for television, radio, and for labels such as NMC, all that dust, Another Timbre, Classical Remix, and Prima Facie.
Recent releases include a critically-acclaimed recording of Stockhausen’s KONTAKTE and of Oliver Leith‘s good day good day bad day bad day with GBSR Duo, a re-voicing by Mira Calix of a selection of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes, solo piano music by Ryoko Akama, a Barbara Monk Feldman portrait disc, and Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians with Colin Currie Group.
Siwan is a member of piano-percussion duo GBSR Duo with which she is an hcmf//fielding talent artist. She is also a member of new music group Explore Ensemble, and works regularly with mezzo-soprano Lucy Goddard.
Also a regular ensemble and orchestral pianist, Siwan has worked with the London Sinfonietta, Colin Currie Group, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Riot Ensemble, Clod Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
She is an honorary member of the Welsh Gorsedd of Bards
Stockhausen Kontakte
Siwan Rhys and George Barton together form the percussion and piano duo GBSR. They discussed their recent recording of KONTAKTE, composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Read the interview transcript here. It was the first piece the duo ever performed together back in 2013.
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