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"...express our warmest appreciation and thanks for your stunning presentation and performance ... your fine playing, interesting choice of repertoire and eloquent introductions."
Hutchesons' Grammar School - May 2005
"...one of the outstanding contemporary British pianists in both technique and musical insight..."
Yorkshire Post
"...a really excellent and most enjoyable concert."
Minehead & West Somerset Arts Society
| Murray McLachlan |
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Murray McLachlan is one of Britain's leading concert pianists. His performances have consistently received outstanding critical acclaim for intelligent and sensitive interpretations and superb technical ability. As head of keyboard at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester he is also a committed teacher and regularly gives masterclasses around the UK.
He has appeared as concerto soloist with many leading UK orchestras, performing in top concert venues from the north of Scotland to London. His recognition has been far-reaching, bringing many invitations to perform abroad, and his engagements include recitals in the USA and extended tours of the Soviet Union, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Scandinavia and the Far East. In 1997 he was awarded a knighthood by the Order of St John of Jerusalem, in recognition of his services to music in Malta.
In the performance of Russian music, Murray McLachlan's technique and understanding is unrivalled whilst his recordings of Prokofiev, Kabalevsky, Khatchaturian and the lesser known Tcherepnin and Myaskovsky have received outstanding reviews. His prolific discography on Olympia, Divineart and Linn Records embraces rarities such as music by MacCunn and a concerto based on sketches left by Grieg for a second piano concerto. Most recently he recorded a cross-over album with the internationally acclaimed jazz saxophonist Tommy Smith.
Murray McLachlan's skill and versatility extends throughout the classical repertoire and he has delighted the public and press with performances of all twenty-four Chopin etudes, the complete Beethoven sonatas and the complete works of Brahms. During the 1997-98 season he undertook a series of fifty Chopin recitals featuring the four Ballades in aid of the Marie Curie Cancer Fund's Golden Jubilee.
Murray McLachlan is a tireless advocate of contemporary music. In November 1997 his recording of John McLeod's Piano Music was selected as 'Record of the Week' in the Herald. Earlier his recording of 'Piano Music from Scotland', featuring music by Ronald Stevenson and Ronald Center was awarded a rosette in the Penguin Guide to Compact Discs. Many composers have specially written works for him, including Michael Parkin, whose Concerto for Piano and Orchestra was first performed by McLachlan during the 1999 Aberystwyth International Music Festival.
During the last season he appeared as concerto soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the Barbican Centre, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Hallé Orchestra in The Bridgewater Hall, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the London Concert Orchestra, Manchester Concert Orchestra, the Lakeland Sinfonia and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. He also gave the very last concerto performance of the Millennium in the Royal Albert Hall, playing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on 31st December 1999.
Classic CD
“ ... an interpreter gifted with an instrumental technique that is as discreet as it is impressive...”
Diapason
“ ... one of the outstanding contemporary British pianists in both technique and musical insight.”
Yorkshire Post
“ ... a performance of Tchaikovsky's B flat Piano Concerto that was undoubtedly a benchmark for all other performances of the work ... so astonishing it was almost supernatural. Powerful, passionate and sexy, it rose up and took flight ... ”
The Music Hall, Aberdeen