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SUMMARY:Barry Douglas\, piano
DESCRIPTION:In a programme of Tchaikovsky: Meditation Op. 72 No. 5\; Rachma
 ninoff: Moments Musicaux Op. 16 and Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition\
 n\nBarry Douglas has established a major international career since winnin
 g the Gold Medal at the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition\,
  Moscow. As Artistic Director of Camerata Ireland and the Clandeboye Festi
 val\, he continues to celebrate his Irish heritage whilst also maintaining
  a busy international touring schedule.\n\nBarry opened the 17/18 season p
 erforming Tchaikovsky with the Halle Orchestra\, after which he began new 
 collaborations with both the Endellion String Quartet and the Borodin Quar
 tet. He toured in recital in the UK and USA and performed with orchestras 
 across the globe from Canada to Europe to China to Russia. During the 16/1
 7 season Barry performed two full Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto cycles in Ire
 land with the RTE Orchestra in Dublin and the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast.
  He also gave performances of Tchaikovsky's first Piano Concerto with the 
 London Symphony Orchestra\, and opened the St. Petersburg Philharmonic's c
 oncert season\, all marking the 30th anniversary of his Tchaikovsky Intern
 ational Competition win.\n\nOther recent and future highlights include per
 formances at BBC Proms in the Park with the Ulster Orchestra\, a UK tour w
 ith the Russian State Symphony Orchestra\, and appearances with Orchestre 
 de Auvergne\, Barcelona Symphony\, Bogota Philharmonic and Vancouver Symph
 ony orchestras. He also recently gave the premiere of Kevin Volans' fourth
  piano concerto with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group\, and perform
 ed in recital at the Verbier Festival.\n\nHe has previously given concerts
  with the BBC Scottish Symphony\, London Symphony\, Russian National\, Cin
 cinnati Symphony\, Singapore Symphony\, Berlin Radio Symphony\, Staatskape
 lle\, Halle\, Orchestre National de France\, Seattle Symphony\, Melbourne 
 Symphony\, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Hong Kong Philharmonic orc
 hestras\, among others. Barry regularly plays in recitals throughout the w
 orld\, with recent performances in the UK\, the Netherlands\, Armenia\, Me
 xico\, China and the US.\n\nBarry is an exclusive Chandos recording artist
 . He recently completed recording the full works for solo piano of Brahms\
 , the six albums of which have received much critical praise. Internationa
 l Record Review wrote that “this is indeed Brahms playing of the utmost 
 integrity and authority… this cycle looks set to become a benchmark vers
 ion.” The interesting programming of each disc presents each album as a 
 stand-alone recital\, providing a varied and engaging listening experience
 . His current recording project focuses on the solo piano works of Schuber
 t\; the fourth and final disc will be released next season. Last season he
  also began a new series\, recording Tchaikovsky solo piano music. Also wi
 th Chandos Barry is exploring Irish folk music through his own arrangement
 s\, working with ancient melodies through to pieces by contemporary song w
 riters. The first in this series\, Celtic Reflections\, was released in Se
 ptember 2014 and was followed in 2016 by a second disc: Celtic Airs.\n\nIn
  1999 Barry Douglas founded the chamber orchestra Camerata Ireland to cele
 brate and nurture the very best of young musicians from both Northern and 
 the Republic of Ireland. In addition to striving for musical excellence\, 
 one of the orchestra's aims is to further the peace process in Ireland by 
 promoting dialogue and collaboration through its musical education program
 mes. Barry regularly tours with Camerata Ireland throughout the world and 
 visited the US in the spring of 2018. Highlights of past seasons were Came
 rata Ireland's debut at the BBC Proms in London and a world premiere of a 
 new cantata commissioned by The Honourable The Irish Society\, “At Sixes
  and Sevens”\, alongside the London Symphony Orchestra to celebrate Derr
 y-Londonderry becoming City of Culture 2013.\n\nBarry Douglas received the
  Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year's Honours List for
  services to music.\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Piano recitals
LOCATION:Mazda Hall\, Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India
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