CMF Artist Booklet A5 - 21st December 2016
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Joseph Houston - Piano<br />
“Houston [is] emerging as an expert interpreter of experimental music”<br />
The Guardian ****<br />
“His playing of my Eleven Studies in Velocity as part of the Park Lane Group<br />
Young <strong>Artist</strong>s Series 2013 was quite simply one of the best performances<br />
I’ve ever had.”<br />
Colin Matthews OBE, composer<br />
Joseph Houston is a pianist based in London and Berlin. His wideranging<br />
curiosity has led to activity in a variety of fields, particularly<br />
in Contemporary and Experimental Music. He has performed all over<br />
Europe and in China, and his playing has been broadcast on BBC Radio<br />
3 and 4.<br />
Collaboration with composers is a large portion of Joseph’s work, and<br />
he has premiered new pieces for solo piano by composers including<br />
Colin Matthews, Christian Mason, Martin Suckling, Charlotte Bray,<br />
Thomas Simaku, and Simon Holt.<br />
After studying at York University and Royal College of Music, Houston<br />
has been a selected artist on the Making Music Philip and Dorothy<br />
Green Award for Young Concert <strong>Artist</strong>s and winner of the 2nd Prize<br />
in the British Contemporary Piano Competition, a Help Musicians UK<br />
‘Emerging Excellence’ award and a Park Lane Group Young <strong>Artist</strong>.<br />
He has worked frequently as a soloist with ensembles and orchestras,<br />
performing works by John Cage, Olivier Messiaen, Brahms, Stravinsky,<br />
Michael Zev Gordon and Tchaikovsky.<br />
www.citymusicfoundation.org/artists/joseph-houston<br />
www.josephhouston.co.uk<br />
<strong>2016</strong> <strong>Artist</strong>
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