Join us for Howdenshire Music's penultimate lunchtime concert of the year, featuring the celebrated Schiller-Humphreys piano duo! "Schiller and Humphreys have been playing together for over thirty years and it shows - their collaboration at the keyboard is beautifully synchronized right up to the last cadence" BBC Classical Review "Playing of fastidious poetry and elegance" Daily Telegraph Programme Mozart Sonata in D major, K.381 Schubert Variations on an Original Theme in A-Flat Major, D.813 Ravel 'Mother Goose' Suite Poulenc Sonata for Piano Four Hands Dvok Three Slavonic Dances Allan Schiller is widely regarded as one of the UK's finest pianists. Born in Leeds he studied initially with Fanny Waterman making his debut at the age of ten in a Mozart concerto with the Halle Orchestra under Sir John Barbirolli. He rapidly established a reputation as one of the most exciting pianists of his generation with solo appearances throughout the country and concerto performances with all the major UK orchestras and the BBC Symphony Orchestras, working with a number of distinguished conductors including Sir George Solti, Bernard Haitink, Norman del Mar, Sir Malcolm Sargent and Sir Charles Mackerras. Allan has a particular reputation as a Mozart player 'par excellence'. He has made countless broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and recorded a number of highly regarded CDs including Mozart concerti with Sir Charles Mackerras and Elgar and Bridge piano quintets with the Coull String Quartet. John Humphreys was born in Liverpool and studied with Henryk Mierowski and later with Harold Rubens at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1967 he was awarded one of four scholarships by the Austrian Government to study in Vienna and on his return to this country made his Wigmore Hall debut in 1972 with Busoni's rarely heard 'Fantasia Contrappuntistica'. Since then he has appeared throughout the country as soloist, accompanist and chamber musician. In 1975 he performed the cycle of Mozart piano sonatas in London and elsewhere and has given many performances of Bach's 'Goldberg Variations'. John was Assistant Head of Keyboard Studies at Birmingham Conservatoire until 2009. Allan and John have been playing as a piano duo since 1972 and in 2022 celebrated their 50th anniversary with appearances throughout the UK, ending with a recital at Wigmore Hall. They gave another Wigmore Hall recital in 2024 and have recorded Busoni and Schubert for Naxos. In addition to BBC Radio 3 broadcasts the duo have played throughout the UK and, recently, in Iceland. +++PLEASE NOTE+++ Advance booking for this concert is optional but recommended. For concert and general enquiries, please email [email protected] or telephone Steven Goulden on 07743 448123.