Alexander Kelly (pianist)
Alexander Kelly (30 June 1929 – 23 October 1996) was a British pianist, composer and former head of keyboard studies at the Royal Academy of Music.
Kelly studied piano with
James Caird scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music
.
He gave his
Beethoven. Later performances included works by William Sterndale Bennett,[1] Peter Wishart, and John Maxwell Geddes
, among others.
As a teacher, Kelly was much sought after: beginning his teaching career at the
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
.
Also active in the field of chamber music he performed regularly with, amongst others, the violinist Jean Harvey, the tenor Duncan Robertson and the flautist William Bennett.
In 1957 he married the cellist
Oxford. He also had two grandchildren, Camilla Davan-Wetton and Alexander Davan-Wetton. As a wedding present to Kelly and Moncrieff, the composer Peter Wishart wrote a Piano Concerto
which Kelly premiered in Birmingham in 1958. Wishart's piano solo, "Opheis kai klimakes" (Snakes and Ladders) was written to celebrate Catriona's birth in 1959.
References
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Sterndale Bennett, Suite de Pieces No 2, Alexander Kelly Piano. YouTube.
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