Paul Lewis (pianist)
Paul Lewis ( born May 20, 1972 in Liverpool) is a British pianist.
Life
Paul Lewis learned as a child first cello and received only regular with twelve years of piano lessons.
In 1987 he began his studies with Ryszard Bakst at Chetham's School of Music and moved in 1990 to Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was a master student of Alfred Brendel 1993.
At the International Piano Competition in London in 1994, he won the second prize. 1997 Steinway appointed him to the " 1000th Steinway Artist. 1998 Paul Lewis has performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the first time at the Proms on.
From 2000 to 2002 he taught as a professor at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2002 he played at the Wigmore Hall, which nominated him for the leading European concert halls Rising Stars series. Paul Lewis performed as a soloist with various orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the BBC and the Vienna Chamber Philharmonic. As a chamber music accompanist, he has performed with artists such as Yo- Yo Ma and Adrian Brendel and the Leopold String Trio.
Lewis played at numerous festivals, including the Piano Festival in Lucerne, the Ruhr Festival and the Festival de Roque- d'Anthéron in Bouches -du -Rhône. As with Francesco Libetta this concert was recorded and later released as a DVD directly.
Repertoire
Paul Lewis is next Till Fellner and Kit Armstrong 's most famous pupil Alfred Brendel. So it is not surprising that repertoire and interpretation are closely aligned to the teacher. How Brendel preferred Lewis works of Franz Schubert, Beethoven and Liszt. 2001 and 2002 he played the complete piano sonatas of Schubert at Wigmore Hall and has since been working on a recording of the works. Lewis undertook concert tours including through Australia, New Zealand and the United States. 2009 he also presented a complete recording of the Beethoven sonatas.
His playing is satisfied and eager to faithfulness, without being cold or mechanical. His sounded nice stop is not forced, sometimes a bit reluctant; articulate clearly but not detailed. In Schubert he works - even in small pieces - by natural rubato in the emotional depths of the music, and it underlines the subtle nuances whose dramatic and psychological construction. So he lit up about the (often as a piano student piece was one ) from the ballet studio known dance Moment Musicaux No. 3 in F minor with seriousness while he is playing the outer movements of the fourth in C-sharp minor restrained and emotional focus on the middle section in D major sets.
Like his teacher, he dispensed with Liszt on the titanic gesture and the demonic - Excessive. In his hands the B minor Sonata never seems to overheat. Opposite Brendel its sound is a bit softer, so that his game in lyrical passages has a poetic- damped charisma.
The emphasis on the poetic sound Lichen lead in Beethoven 's quick movements - as in the sonatas op 31 or the Allegro con brio of the Waldstein Sonata - unusually slow tempos.