Roy Howat (piano)

Roy Howat is internationally renowned as both pianist and scholar whose concerts, broadcasts and lectures regularly take him worldwide.  A Steinway Artist, Roy Howat knows much of his concert repertoire from the composers’ manuscripts, and was one of the editors invited by the late François Lesure, along with Pierre Boulez and others, to found the Paris-based Complete Debussy Edition (Œuvres Complètes de Claude Debussy), for which he has edited much of the piano music.  Among his other publications are two seminal books (Debussy in proportion and The Art of French piano music), an English edition of Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger’s classic Chopin, pianist and teacher, and chapters in numerous other books on Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, Bartók and other topics.  His championship of Chabrier has led to recordings and a Dover edition of Chabrier’s marvellous piano music.  He hold the posts of Keyboard Research Fellow at London’s Royal Academy of Music, and Research Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.

Programme 

                 Claude Debussy: Estampes

                 Franz Schubert: Sonata in C, D840 (3 mvts, 3rd completed by RH)

                 Interval

                 Claude Debussy: Images series 1

                 Emmanuel Chabrier: Ballabile, Caprice, Feuillet d’album; 
                           ‘Improvisation’ (from Pièces pittoresques)

                 Claude Debussy: D’un cahier d’esquisses, L’isle joyeuse