Rosemarie Wright
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Rosemarie Wright (12 December 1931 – 25 April 2020) was an English pianist.[1]
Wright was born in Chorley, Lancashire. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Patrick Cory and Harold Craxton, winning many prizes including the Chappell Silver Medal and Tobias Matthay Fellowship. Her later studies were with Bruno Seidlhofer at the Vienna Academy of MusicStaatsakademie, and with Edwin Fischer and Wilhelm Kempff.[2] She studied chamber music with the cellist Pablo Casals.[2] Wright won the Haydn Prize in the International Haydn-Schubert Competition in Vienna in 1959, and in 1960 became the first British pianist ever to win the Bösendorfer Prize.[3]
Wright made her recital debut in the Großer Saal of the
Wright was pianist-in-residence at the University of Southampton (1972–1980),[2] senior lecturer in keyboard studies at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) (1972–78) and professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music (1978–1997). She was elected a fellow of the RNCM in 1993.[2]
Wright was married in 1961 and had two sons.[2]
She died in 2020.[3]
References
- ^ Honeybourne, Duncan. Rosemarie Wright: an obituary, at MusicWeb International
- ^ ISBN 9780948875533.
- ^ a b Duncan Honeybourne: Rosemarie Wright obituary The Guardian, 3 June 2020
- The Musical Times, volume 101, no. 1409 (July 1960), page 439
External links
- Rosemarie Wright discography at Discogs
