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Antony Peebles |
23.03.2003
In 1971 he won the BBC Piano Competition with a unanimous vote from the jury. Vlado Perlemuter, serving on the jury, announced that he had never heard Gaspard de la nuit played better. In the following year Mr Peebles won the Debussy Competition in France. Since then he has maintained a very busy performing career. The main feature of this has been the remarkable amount of overseas touring it has entailed: Mr Peebles has now performed in, astonishingly, 124 different countries. The most recent additions to the list have been Uganda, Tunis, China, US Virgin Islands, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. At home in the UK he has played as concerto soloist with the following orchestras: London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Halle, City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Welsh Symphony, City of London Sinfonia, etc..He brodcasts on BBC Radio 3 and plays for music clubs up and down the country. He has recorded 5 CDs for Meridian Records. These involve a CD of Ravel Piano music, a CD of Liszt transcriptions and fantasias based mostly on various operas, and 3 CDs of Schubert songs transcribed by Liszt. Mr Peebles is currently recording all 55 of the Schubert songs that Liszt transcribed for solo piano. The first of these Schubert CDs was voted 3rd Best Recording of the Month by 'Classic CD' Magazine. (The 3rd volume has not been released yet.)
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Antony
Peebles was educated at Westminster Sxchool and - with an exhibition in
music - at Trinity College Cambridge. After gaining his MusB there he
studied piano with Peter Katin, receiving scholarships from various
sources. He has also studied with Yvonne Lefebure (on a French Government
scholarship) and Jeremy Siepmann.
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