{"title":"Joseph Houston | piano","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoseph Houston is a British pianist based in Berlin. His performance practice encompasses a range of music, including contemporary and experimental music; late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century piano music; music for synthesizers; and his own compositions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the University of York and the Royal College of Music, London, he studied the core classical piano repertoire with Ashley Wass, Andrew Ball and Ian Jones. Since his studies, performances have included wide ranging selections of music from Scarlatti, Ives, and Scriabin, to Rădulescu, Christian Wolff, and Chiyoko Szlavnics. Soon after graduating he performed Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie with the University of York Symphony Orchestra and gave performances of Brahms’ First Piano Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, John Cage’s Concert for Piano and Orchestra (with the RCM Contemporary Music Ensemble), as well as giving a solo recital of Beethoven, Debussy, and Thomas Simaku at Wigmore Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoseph performs as a soloist and with various groups, with recent performances including duos with Rolf Hind (piano), Lore Lixenberg (voice), and Lucy Railton (cello), as well as larger collaborations with Quatuor Diotima, the Boulez Ensemble, and Ensemble PianoPercussion Berlin. Festival and venue appearances include among others Berlin Biennale; Lille Piano(s) Festival; Donaueschinger Musiktage; BBC Proms; Konzerthaus; Cheltenham Festival; Philharmonie; Southbank Centre; and Wigmore Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecent highlights include solo performances at Donaueschinger Musiktage; the world premiere of a new violin\/piano work by Rebecca Saunders and Enno Poppe at Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik; the performance of new violin and retuned piano works by Cat Lamb in Berlin in 2022; and a portrait CD of composer Mark Barden, released on WERGO.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"michael-zev-gordon-diary-pieces","title":"Michael Zev Gordon: Diary Pieces","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph Houston (piano)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2015, composer Michael Zev Gordon took up the idea of writing musical diary entries, which has spawned this ongoing series of small pieces for solo piano. With most written in a single day, with only minor subsequent refinements, Gordon beautifully captures a feeling, a nuance, an image and, as is the nature of a diary, often with personal associations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePianist Joseph Houston sensitively responds to Gordon’s recurring themes of the bitter-sweet waltz, unwavering stillness, elegiac simplicity, folk-like dances and fleeting brilliance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0622\/7977\/8534\/files\/RES10322_booklet.pdf?v=1701855121\" title=\"Album Booklet - Michael Zev Gordon: Diary Pieces - Joseph Houston (piano)\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlbum Booklet (PDF)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbout the Artist: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.resonusclassics.com\/collections\/joseph-houston-piano\" title=\"Joseph Houston - piano - Resonus Classics\"\u003eJoseph Houston\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"resonusclassics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44106546905318,"sku":"RES10322","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0622\/7977\/8534\/files\/RES10322_Zev_Gordon_Diary_Pieces_Joseph_Houston.jpg?v=1701855289"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0622\/7977\/8534\/collections\/Joseph_Houston_2c986351-6821-4b55-b211-0a385d61d801.jpg?v=1794383227","url":"https:\/\/www.resonusclassics.com\/collections\/joseph-houston-piano.oembed","provider":"Resonus Classics \u0026 Inventa Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}