JOHN HUMPHREYS

John Humphreys studied at the Royal Academy of Music under John Hunt and Harold Rubens and on an Austrian Government Scholarship in Vienna. He made his Wigmore Hall début in 1972 with Busoni’s rarely heard solo version of the Fantasia contrappuntistica and since then has performed extensively throughout Britain and abroad. He is currently Assistant Head of Keyboard Studies at Birmingham Conservatoire and in 1998 was awarded the ARAM from the Royal Academy of Music. He and Allan Schiller have been playing together for over thirty years and on 27th January 2006 they were invited by the Wigmore Hall to present a duo recital celebrating Mozart’s 250th anniversary.

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