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Barry Douglas
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Barry Douglas (1960-) won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in 1986, the first non-Russian pianist to do so since Van Cliburn. Barry Douglas received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year's Honours List for services to music. He also received a Fellowship of the Royal College of Music where he is Prince Consort Professor of Piano and an Hon. Doctorate of Music from Queens University Belfast. His debut album was a recording of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, in the original piano version. He has made many recordings since then and is currently (2006) recording the five Beethoven piano concertos. He is Artistic Director of the International Piano Festival in Manchester, England and the Clandeboye Festival in Clandeboye. He founded Camerata Ireland in 1998 which has Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Mary McAleese the President of Ireland as Joint Patrons. He had previously won the Bronze Medal at the Van Cliburn Competition in Texas in 1985 and the top prize in the Santander Paloma O'Shea competition in Spain. Barry Douglas increasingly devotes part of his time to conducting the Camerata Ireland orchestra. He has directed cycles of the complete Beethoven Symphonies (in November 2002) and Mozart and Schubert Symphonies and Mozart Concertos in 2000 and 2001. Barry Douglas first studied in Belfast and at 16 had lessons with Felicitas LeWinter, a pupil of Emil von Sauer - a pupil of Liszt. In London he studyied with John Barstow fo
top songs
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Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in C Major Op. 15: Largo
1,5412Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B flat major Op 19: Molto Allegro
1,3213Nuages Gris, S199
2134Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.5 in E flat major Op. 73 ('The Emperor): Rondo
1135Rachmaninov - Concerto pour piano No. 2, Op. 18en ut mineur
106610 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (Arr. for Piano Solo): No. 4 in F-Sharp Minor
8274 Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899: No. 3 in G-Flat Major (Andante)
728Piano Sonata No. 9 in B Major, Op. Posth. 147, D. 575: IV. Allegro giusto
669Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in C Major Op. 15: Rondo: Allegro
5510The Seasons, Op. 37a, TH 135: X. October. Autumn Song
48albums
Betthoven: Piano Concertos No.1 & No.5
Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 2 & No. 4
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Tchaikovsky Plus One, Vol. 1
Celtic Reflections
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Schubert: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 4
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Brahms: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 6
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Tchaikovsky Plus One, Vol. 3
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Schubert: Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 2
Brahms: Complete Works for Solo Piano
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Schubert: Piano Music, Vol. 6
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Tchaikovsky Plus One, Vol. 2
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Songs Without Words - Classical Music From Ken Burns' The War