British pianist Kathryn Stott performs at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater
Thu, 10/20/2011 - 17:21
Washington, D.C., Oct 20, 2011 (Washington Bangla Radio) Internationally
recognized as one of Britain’s most versatile and imaginative
musicians, Kathryn Stott’s wide-ranging interests have led to a unique
career and a rare reputation. Collaborating with a wide variety of
chamber musicians and playing with some of the world’s leading
instrumentalists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Stott has also appeared as soloist on
major international concert platforms in recitals and concerto
performances, has directed distinctive concert series and festivals and
has developed an extensive and exceptionally varied catalogue of
recordings. Stott makes her Kennedy Center solo debut on December 3 with
an eclectic program of French, Argentinean, Brazilian and British
works. Born in Lancashire in northern England, Stott
studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Vlado Perlemuter and Nadia
Boulanger, and then at the Royal College of Music in London with Kendall
Taylor. 
In 1978 she attracted critical attention as an outstanding young prize-winner at the Leeds International Piano Competition.
As a concerto soloist, Stott enjoys associations with major orchestras in Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, France, Hong Kong, Australia and Japan and is a favored recital partner of many leading musicians. Stott continues to appear in concerts and on recordings with Yo-Yo Ma and works regularly with cellists like Truls Mørk, Guy Johnston and violinist Janine Jansen. Other projects include collaborations with violinists Henning Kraggerud and Alina Ibragimova; violist Maxim Rysanov; cellist Torleif Thedeen; clarinettist Martin Fröst; oboist Christoph Hartmann; and baritone Audun Iversen.
Stott’s eclectic musical interests have led to cooperative ventures with
the guitar-playing Assad Brothers, bandoneonist Nestor Marconi,
double-bassist Edgar Meyer, and clarinetist Paquito d’Rivera, and she is
a regular guest with the Belcea, Skampa and Endellion Quartets, as
well as with the Lindsays. She has made nearly a dozen appearances at
the BBC Proms, to which she returned last summer in a late-night concert
with Yo-Yo Ma.
Stott’s interest in contemporary music
has led to premiere performances of concerti by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
and Michael Nyman. She gave the world premiere of Graham Fitkin’s Circuit for two pianos and orchestra with Noriko Ogawa in Manchester, has given subsequent performances in Japan and has also recorded the work.
Stott is also an exponent of tango and other Latin dance music, as reflected in her CD La Habanera: the Piano Music of Ernesto Lecuona and in her collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma and leading South American musicians on the Grammy Award-winning Sony CD Soul of the Tango and its successor, Obrigado Brazil.
Stott’s recordings feature a large and similarly eclectic body of work
on a wide variety of labels, including the complete solo piano music of
Fauré; solo pieces by Koechlin, Foulds, Schulhoff and Smetana; a solo
piano disc, Dance; and chamber music CDs with Yo-Yo Ma, Truls
Mørk and others. In 2009 she was signed as an exclusive Chandos artist
for all her solo piano work. Current and forthcoming recordings include
three discs with the Doric String Quartet.
Kathryn Stott
has been the artistic vision behind several major festivals and concert
series, in which she has played a dual role as director/performer. With
‘Piano 2000’ and ‘Piano 2003’ at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
established her reputation as an astute programmer, and following the
earlier ‘Fauré and the French Connection’ she was appointed Chevalier
dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Government. In 2008 she
was appointed Artistic Director of the Manchester Chamber Concerts
Society. She is Guest Artistic Director, of the chamber festival
Incontri in Terra di Siena.
Stott is visiting professor at both the Royal Academy of Music, London and Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester.
Stott has a daughter, Lucy, and lives with her partner, Huw, a landscape architect, in the West Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge. She is on the Board of the Hallé Concerts Society and has also raised money for HIV research and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy.
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