roger woodward
♪ Studies with Alexander Sverjensky, Sydney Conservatorium of Music (pupil of Sergei Rakhmaninov and Alexander Siloti). First Prize, 1964 Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Commonwealth Finals Instrumental and Vocal Competition.
♪ Postgraduate studies in Piano at the National Chopin Academy of Music with Professor Zbigniew Drzewiecki (Student of Ignazy Paderewski, associate of Karol Szymanowski, Artur Rubinstein and Heinrich Neuhaus).
♪ Studied conducting with Witold Rowicki.
♪ Studied Polish language and literature, University of Warsaw.
♪ Lessons with Artur Rubinstein.
♪ Toured with Polish violinist, Wanda Wilkomirska.
♪ Solo recitals, South Bank, London.
♪ Ostrogski Palace; Chopin Institute; performed with orchestras throughout Poland and began recording regularly for Polish Radio and Television.
♪ Commended by Lord Yehudi Menuhin to the (London) EMI Recording Company after performances at the Paris Rostrum (UNESCO) which included performances of own compositions, Takemitsu and Bartok.
♪ Artist-in-Residence at the Casa de Los Americas, Havana, Cuba.
♪ First national tours of Australia for the ABC and Musica Viva with Vienna Trio.
♪ Presented plans (since implemented) for a Sydney International Piano Competition to the NSW Government Ministry of Tourism (together with Sir Bernard Heinze).
♪ Toured extensively with the Vienna Trio.
♪ Collaboration with Leo Brouwer, Carlos Farinas (Havana)
♪ Debut with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Festival Hall.
♪ London, South Bank: Premieres by Meale, Edwards, Takemitsu, Brouwer and Barraqué
♪ Founded, directed and administered the international contemporary music festival series at the Round House, London for BBC/EMI/Decca The London Music Digest
♪ Studied composition with Iannis Xenakis in Paris and prepared his works for performances with Zubin Mehta in Los Angeles, New York, Tel Aviv, Paris.
♪ Studied composition with Jean Barraqué in Paris. Began working with Pierre Boulez (BBCSO).
♪ Inaugural recital series (Sydney Opera House);
♪ Worked with Zubin Mehta and Olivier Messiaen at UCLA campus and Los Angeles Music Centre with LAPO
♪ Worked in Israel with Zubin Mehta and IPO
♪ BBC Dartington, masterclasses & concerts
♪ Six week coast-to-coast tour of the USA with Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Witold Rowicki (Mozart and Bartok)
♪ Executive Director, Concert for Darwin (SOH) raising $3million+ (recorded by EMI)
♪ Studied composition with Toru Takemitsu whilst preparing his works for live performance. ‘Music Today’ Festival, Tokyo.
♪ Worked with Anne Boyd on the world premiere of Angklung for the Edinburgh Festival and also with Edinburgh String Quartet.
♪ Worked with Morton Feldman, John Cage, Elliott Carter for live performances in the UK, Germany, France and the USA.
♪ Founded the United Music Teachers Association of NSW and Music Rostrum Australia.
♪ Beethoven Sonatas complete Adelaide Festival + presentation of paper on Beethoven in Adelaide Writers’ Week;
♪ Appointed Membre Correspondant (Fellow), International Frederick Chopin Institute, Warsaw.
♪ Founder and Artistic Director, Australian Music Rostrum, second series.
♪ World premiere Feldman Piano Concerto, Metz, Saarlandischer Rundfunk Orchestra, Hans Zender (CPO release of ‘live’ performance since awarded Goethe Prize 1999)
♪ Recorded complete Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues for RCA Red Seal (prize winning LPs)
♪ World premiere Feldman Piano in Frankfurt
♪ Complete cycle of 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas at the University of Wales, Cardiff.
♪ Beethoven recitals – Havering, Birmingham, Wavendon, Ilminster, Exmouth, Torquay.
♪ RCA London recording Beethoven Sonatas
♪ BBC Proms – BBCSO/Charles Mackerras/Stravinsky Piano Concerto
♪ Baden Baden – Sudwestfunk recital
♪ Liverpool England – Schoenberg Concerto, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Lawrence Foster
♪ Cardiff - Hoddinott 3rd Concerto, BBC Welsh SO (recorded for RCA);
♪ Recorded Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas for the Polish Radio, Warsaw
♪ London Symphony Orchestra / Tjeknavorian, Tchaikovsky 2nd Piano Concerto, (recorded by RCA);
♪ Cardiff Festival, Lennox Berkeley Piano Concerto
♪ Complete Beethoven Sonata Cycle, 8 recitals, Adelaide Festival
♪ Tour of UK with Halle Orchestra/Lukas Foss
♪ Xenakis Recordings and concert series at Hessischerrundfunk with Eliahu Inbal and Frankfurt Radio Orchestra.
♪ Performed Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas at the Sydney Festival; performed Brussels Festival.
♪ Second New Zealand tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
♪ Performed Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank, London.
♪ World Premiere Xenakis “Mists” (Edinburgh) and Feldman “Triadic Memories” (London);
♪ Directed the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra’s season.
♪ Third New Zealand tour.
♪ City of London decoration
♪ Performed Beethoven’s Five Piano Concerti and Triple Concerto for the 50th Anniversary of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
♪ Performed at the Chullora Railways Australia for railway workers & union as part of ILO initiative, Geneva, for UN.
♪ Performed and recorded Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas, Melbourne
♪ Sydney Festival- complete works of Chopin
♪ Lectures, masterclasses at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki
♪ Performed in Finland, Sweden, Iceland
♪ USA world premiere Xenakis/Mehta/Lincoln Centre/ New York Philharmonic
♪ BBC Proms
♪ Arditti Quartet collaboration at Sviatoslav Richter’s festival at Grange de Mesley, Tours, France.
♪ Chamber music tour of UK with Philip Jones Brass Ensemble for British Contemporary Music Network.
♪ Complete Beethoven sonatas at Brisbane Expo.
♪ Collaboration with Graeme Murphy and the Sydney Dance Company for the Xenakis ballet Kraanerg, Sydney Opera House.
♪ BBC Proms (9th season).
♪ Warsaw Autumn Festival (Xenakis) with Warsaw Philharmonic (Polish Radio and Television)
♪ Commissioned by Festival d’Automne à Paris. Premiere of two-piano work – Sound by Sound – for Bicentennial Celebrations of French Revolution. Televised in France and Spain, repeated UK and Australia.
♪ Founded, directed and sourced funding for the first Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music and Visual Arts at the Art Gallery of NSW. This festival continued for 12 years. Broadcast nationally by ABC Classic FM Radio and performances issued by Etcetera Record Co BV, Amsterdam.
♪ Performed for the Australian Government in Beijing and Shanghai, China.
♪ Tours in France, Greece, UK and Portugal.
♪ 50th birthday recital at Sydney Opera House.
♪ Awarded “The Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of Australian Music by an Overseas Organisation, Group or Individual” by ‘Sounds Australia’.
♪ Awarded Companion of Australia
♪ Worked with Claudio Abbado and Iannis Xenakis at the Wiener Konzerthaus. ‘Live’ performance released by DGG.
♪ Founded, directed and sourced funding for the Kötschach-Mauthner Musiktage – an international chamber music festival in Austria.
♪ Founded Incontro di Solisti (Trieste).
♪ Invited by the Estonian Government to tour in Estonia with orchestral concerts following in Latvia
♪ Prepared the Fourth and Fifth Sydney Spring International Festivals of New Music
♪ Extended tour of Europe directing Alpha Centauri Chamber Orchestra.
♪ Collaboration with Edo de Waart (Skryabin, Prokofiev and Schoenberg Concerti – recording of Skryabin Concerto).
♪ Awarded Polish Order of Merit (Commander) for services to human rights (President Lech Walesa)
♪ Chamber Music tour with the musicians of Incontro di Solisti, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne (Schubert, Mozart, Brahms) nine concerts.
♪ Incontri di Solisti concerts, Austria, Italy and France.
♪ Toured with Estonian Philharmonic.
♪ Concerts throughout Australia, Estonia, Austria, France, UK
♪ Composed Five Songs in Memoriam Toru Takemitsu for unaccompanied cello, premiered at the Seventh Sydney Spring.
♪ Tour with Cecil Taylor (Modern Jazz) for British Contemporary Music Network, UK, France and Portugal.
♪ Adjunct Professor in Musical Performance, Department of Music, University of Sydney.
♪ Worked with Arvo Pärt.
♪ Founded, directed & sourced funding for ‘’Joie et Lumière’ series at the Chateau de Bagnols (Burgundy, France).
♪ Performed at the Festival d’Automne à Paris, in Sannes, and in London.
♪ Performed world premiere James Dillon’s Book of the Elements Vol 1 (Five volumes completed in 2003 and since awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Prize, UK.
♪ Directed Sydney Spring Ensemble world premiere of Anne Boyd’s Last Songs of the Kamikaze.
♪ Collaboration with Prof. H.C. Robbins Landon in the UK at the Haydn Bridgenorth Festival and in France at Rabasten.
♪ Beethoven paper published by University of Sydney
♪ Performed at South Bank, London and in France with Inconto di Solisti.
♪ Performed in Canada.
♪ World premieres by Anne Boyd : Dreams for the Earth (500 artists) at the Sydney Opera House and new chamber work Book of the Bells III for the Ninth Sydney Spring.
♪ Concerts with Russian Israeli violinist Ivry Gitlis (France), Polish violinist Wanda Wilkomirska, Incontro di Solisti and the Australia Ensemble.
♪ Chopin Sesquicentennial in Memoriam Anniversary Concerts.
♪ Chair of Music, University of New England, Armidale, NSW (2 year contract).
♪ Fourth tour of New Zealand with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/Yoel Levi (Brahms, Prokofiev) .
♪ International Cervantino Festival, Mexico.
♪ Sydney Spring 12th International Festival of New Music, Sydney Opera House.
♪ Awarded National Treasure (National Trust);
♪ Appointed Director, School of Music & Dance, San Francisco StateUniversity, San Francisco, California, USA (3 year contract);
♪ Seitama ‘Hundred Pianist’ series, Tokyo.
♪ Recital, New York Piano Festival and lectures at New York University (December)
♪ Korea “Art Dragon” Festival
♪ Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra (Bach and Beethoven)
♪ Chateau de Bagnols Joie et Lumière series, Burgundy
♪ Concerts with Alexander String Quartet (Shostakovich)
♪ Three recitals Art Gallery of NSW
♪ Ten-day collaboration with the Trossingen Akademie of Music, Germany on Historic Russian (lost) Avant-Garde (1910-30)involving recitals, chamber music presentations. master classes, public lectures and radio broadcasts.
♪ Cuba – International Cervantes Piano Competition – Opening concert performance with National Orchestra (Bartok) Radio and Television, master classes and member of jury (February)
♪ National tour with New Zealand Symphony Orchestra/James Judd (Liszt, Beethoven) with National Radio.
♪ Performances throughout Australia (including Sydney Opera House/Sydney Symphony Orchestra/ Charles Dutoit;
♪ Jean Barraqué paper published in hardback by Greenwood Press, USA and Xenakis paper published for the UK ‘New Music Quarterly’ Sitsky paper to be published in 2004 by Greenwood press
♪ Centenary Medal of Federation (Australia)
♪ Roger Woodward Festival for Mondavi Institute, California (recitals and chamber music collaboration with the Alexander String Quartet) (February)
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♪‘Radar’ International Festival of New Music, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Cervantino , Mexican Radio and Television
♪ Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto)
♪ Brisbane Festival
♪ Hunter Baillie Festival
♪ Awarded by the French Government Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres
♪ New Zealand, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, Sir William Southgate, Rachmaninov Third Piano Concerto
2006/07:
18 March 2006 : San Francisco Inter-Arts Festival, ‘Bridging the Baltic’, with the Alexander String Quartet (Shostakovich Piano Quintet)
April-June 2006 : Australian regional venues, recitals.
30 April 2006 : San Francisco Performances, recital (Debussy, Chopin, Shostakovich, Bach)
2 June 2006 : Synergy Percussion Ltd and City Recital Hall present
Roger Woodward and Simon Tedeschi together for the first time with Synergy Percussion
(Bartok Microcosmos for Two Pianos; Bartok Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion)
24 & 25 September 2006 : Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, for San Francisco Performances with Alexander String Quartet and Bob Greenberg (two programs devoted to the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Dmitri Shostakovich, consisting of Preludes and Fugues, the Violin, Cello and Viola Sonatas, Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano, and String Quartets 5 and 7 ).
January 2007 : Bremen Piano Festival, Radio Bremen, Germany.
Saturday 2 June 2007 : Araluen Centre, Alice Springs, NT
Thursday 7 June 2007 : Portland Arts Centre, Portland, Victoria
Friday 22 June 2007 :with Simon Tedeschi, City Recital Hall, Angel Place Sydney
Saturday 23 June, 2007, 7pm : For The Curran Foundation and The Chapel Society, Recital: Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Debussy
Sunday 15 July, 2007, 7pm : Recital : Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, The Concert Hall, Queens College, Trull Road, Taunton TAI4QS UK.
Thursday 27 September, Friday 28 September, Saturday 29 September 2007 : Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Malaysian Airlines Master Series 2007, with James Judd, Chopin 2nd Piano Concerto in F minor Op 21
Tuesday 2 October, 2007 : Grafton, NSW (Artsfest)
2008
Bach & Shostakovich Preludes & Fugues :
Concert 1 : 13 June 7:30pm - SHOSTAKOVICH Preludes & Fugues Op. 87 Nos. 1-12; BACH The Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1 BWV 846-857
Concert 2 : 22 June 5.00pm - SHOSTAKOVICH Preludes & Fugues Op. 87 Nos. 13-24; BACH The Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1 BWV 858-86
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28 June : Bach & Shostakovich Preludes & Fugues, Wellington New Zealand
August : Recording Germany, Bach Book 2 for Celestial Harmonies
17 November, 7.30pm : with Alexander String Quartet, Brahms Quintet Op.34 - New York City - Engleman Recital Hall, Baruch College of CUNY
2009
14 March : with Alexander String Quartet, Schumann Quintet, Herbst Theatre, San Francisco (for San Francisco Performances)
June : JS Bach Book 1 and Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, Nuremburg Festival, Academy of Arts & Sciences, Hall of Kings, Munich Germany (broadcast)
2010
June : JS Bach Book 2 and Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, Nuremburg Festival, Academy of Arts & Sciences, Hall of Kings, Munich Germany (broadcast)
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