Philip Edward Fisher

Philip Edward Fisher (born 1979, Birmingham, England) is a British classical pianist.

Biography

Born and raised in Birmingham, England, Philip Edward Fisher began playing the piano at the relatively late age of 9, making his concerto debut only 3 years later with a performance of Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto at the city's prestigious Symphony Hall.^[1] He attended a local comprehensive school until winning a scholarship to study at the Purcell School of Music, London,^[2] following which he continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music.^[3]

In 2001, he received the Julius Isserlis Scholarship from the Royal Philharmonic Society of London, enabling him to take up a place at the Juilliard School, which was soon followed by his New York City debut performing Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto under the baton of Larry Rachleff at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.^[4]

He has since settled in New York City, and currently divides his time between the US and the UK.

Performances

Philip Edward Fisher's engagements have included performances at Copenhagen's Tivoli Koncertsalen, New York City's Lincoln Center and Merkin Hall, London's Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre and Royal Festival Hall, Tampere's Tampere Hall, the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall, and Symphony Hall, Birmingham. In April 2011, he represented Chandos Records at the International Classical Music Awards in Tampere, Finland, performing Prokofiev's 1st Piano Concerto with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra under Hannu Lintu. The event was broadcast live across Europe by Finnish Radio, Germany's MDR Figaro, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Luxembourg's Radio 100,7, and Russian Orpheus Radio, along with numerous other networks.^[5] Fisher has also made appearances at Music@Menlo, the Beethoven Chamber Music Festival and the Kyoto International Music Festival in Japan. He has been heard on New York’s WQXR and Boston’s WGBH, BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, and has appeared on Ukrainian Television, the BBC, and MTV.

Fisher has performed concertos with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He has collaborated with numerous leading conductors, including Hannu Lintu, Larry Rachleff, John Axelrod, James Lowe and Giordano Bellincampi. As a chamber musician, his collaborators include the Brodsky Quartet, tenor Robert White, pianist Sara Davis Buechner, violinists Elmar Oliviera, Philippe Graffin and Augustin Hadelich, and Principal Trombonist of the New York Philharmonic, Joseph Alessi.

Fisher is also widely recognised as a performer of new music, having premiered numerous contemporary works in close collaboration with prominent composers such as Ronald Stevenson, Thomas Ades, Arvo Pärt, John Musto, Lowell Liebermann and John Corigliano. As part of the New York Miniaturist Ensemble’s innovative concert series in 2006, Fisher gave the world-premiere performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s First Natural Durations for solo piano. He has also appeared at the New York Focus! Festival at Lincoln Center.

Recordings

Philip Edward Fisher's recent release for Chandos Records, Piano Works by "The Mighty Handful", including Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Balakirev's Islamey, was featured on Classic FM as John Suchet's "Album of the Week",^[6] and was nominated for "Best Solo Instrumental Album" at the International Classical Music Awards 2012.^[7]

Other recent recordings include Handel's Eight Great Keyboard Suites, in two volumes for Naxos Records.^[8] Volume 1 of the set was released in early 2010 to great critical acclaim, hitting the US Classical Billboard Chart within the first week of its release.

He also appears extensively as a guest artist with the Brodsky Quartet on their 2012 release Petit-fours (Chandos Records).^[9]

Alternate name

Philip Edward Fisher occasionally appears under the name Philip Fisher.

References

External links

• /Philip Edward Fisher Official Website