Stephen Hough

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Stephen Hough (born November 22, 1961) is a British-born classical pianist, composer and writer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005 and thus has dual nationality. Hough was born in Heswall (then in Cheshire) on the Wirral Peninsula, and grew up in Hoylake, where he began piano lessons at the age of five. In 1978, he was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition and won the piano section. In 1982, he won the Terence Judd Award in England. In 1983, he took first prize at the Naumburg International Piano Competition in New York. Hough performs as a recitalist and chamber musician, and has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras around the world including the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Toronto Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the London Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. He has made over 40 CDs, one of his most notable of which is a set of the four Rachmaninov Piano Concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, recorded during live performances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under the baton of then music director Andrew Litton, which have been compared to the recordings by the composer himself. These recordings won him his seventh Gramophone Award as well as the Clas

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MOZART / BEETHOVEN: Piano Quintets

Hough: Piano Concerto, Sonatina & Partita

The Piano Album

Stephen Hough's Dream Album: Piano Bonbons

Stephen Hough's French Album

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The Piano Album 1: Music by Paderewski, Godowsky, Dohnányi...

Stephen Hough's Spanish Album

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100 Best Film Classics

CHILDREN'S CELLO

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Relax

Remember Me (Arr. Hough for Piano) [From "Coco"]

Broken Branches

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