Peter Seivewright presents a disc of American sonatas for piano, headlined by the composition from Elliot Carter (who celebrated his centenary in 2008). Carter himself gave a glowing testimony following a performance by Seivewright in 1983 that he attended – describing it as “a most remarkable, breathtaking performance”.
Coupled with the Carter piece are works by two other highly influential figures, Miklós Rózsa & Edward MacDowell. There is no other version of the Rózsa listed in the Muze/Gramophone Classical catalogue.
Peter Seivewright was born in Skipton, England, in 1954. He studied music at Oxford and then spent three years as a post-graduate student at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, studying piano with Ryszard Bakst. As a student he was a frequent soloist with RNCM orchestras, receiving particular Press attention for his performance of Richard Rodney Bennett's Piano Concerto. Peter Seivewright has performed extensively as a recitalist and concerto soloist throughout the world. In addition he was recently appointed to the post of Founding Professor of Music at The Academy for the Performing Arts at the University of Trinidad and Tobago. He will divide his time between homes in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Glasgow, Scotland.
His discography is extensive and includes: The Complete Piano Music of Carl Nielsen (2CDs - Naxos), Contemporary Scottish Piano Music, (Merlin), and the major piano works by the Danish Romantic composer Victor Bendix (Rondo Records, Copenhagen). Peter is working through a series of ten CDs for Divine Art featuring all of the 90 Piano Sonatas of Baldasarre Galuppi, the last great composer of the Venetian Republic (3 issued so far). In early 2007 Divine Art released a CD comprising the major piano works of the Danish composer Louis Glass (1864-1936).
