MACGREGOR, JOANNA
Joanna MacGregor, piano
Joanna MacGregor is widely thought of as one of the most innovative and wide-ranging
of today's pianists and divides her time between playing classical, jazz and
contemporary music. She has performed in over forty countries, and last year
gave recitals and concerto performances in Scandinavia, Western and Eastern
Europe, Australia, the United States and the Far East. She has given first performances
of many landmark compositions in contemporary music working with, among others,
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Pierre Boulez, John Adams and Lou Harrison. She collaborates
regularly with jazz artists Django Bates and Andy Sheppard, and in late 2002
gave an acclaimed tour of China with Jin Xing's Contemporary Dance Theatre performing
her own score written for Chinese traditional instruments and computer technology.
Joanna MacGregor's worldwide performances have included appearances with the
Rotterdam, Oslo and Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Sydney,
Berlin and London Symphony Orchestras. In America she has performed with the
New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. The many eminent conductors
with whom she has collaborated include Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Simon
Rattle and Michael Tilson Thomas. She made her conducting debut in 2002 on an
acclaimed tour of the United Kingdom with the Britten Sinfonia. Her own record
label, SoundCircus, embraces music from Byrd to Birtwistle, and her recent album
'Play' was nominated for a Mercury Music Award, while her orchestral release
'Neural Circuits', which includes the music of Nitin Sawhney and Arvo Part,
has received universal critical acclaim. Joanna MacGregor was appointed Professor
of Music at Gresham College in the City of London from 1998-2000, and she has
Honorary Fellowships from the Royal Academy of Music, Trinity College of Music
and the Royal Society of Arts.
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