Joanna MacGregor: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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Unusually, in the early years of her performing career, Joanna MacGregor was a prolific composer for the theatre (including work for ''Cheek by Jowl'', and Oxford Stage Company's production of ''Hamlet'' at [[Elsinore Castle]] and the [[Edinburgh Festival]]). She was one of the first artists to be selected for the [[Young Concert Artists Trust]] in 1985, and has since performed in over seventy countries, appearing as a solo artist with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the [[New York Philharmonic]], [[London Symphony Orchestra]], [[Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra]], [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]] and [[Berliner Symphoniker|Berlin Symphony Orchestra]], London Philharmonia, Melbourne Symphony and [[Sydney Symphony]] Orchestras, [[Hong Kong Philharmonic]], [[BBC Symphony]] and [[Salzburg Camerata]].

The many eminent conductors with whom she has worked include [[Pierre Boulez]], [[Sir Simon Rattle]], [[Sir Colin Davis]], [[Michael Tilson Thomas]], and [[Valery Gergiev]], and she has appeared in many of the world's greatest venues, including the [[Wigmore Hall]], [[Southbank Centre]] and the [[Barbican Centre|Barbican]] in London, [[Sydney Opera House]], New York’sYork's [[Lincoln Center]], [[Leipzig Gewandhaus]], the [[Concertgebouw]] in Amsterdam and the [[Mozarteum]] in Salzburg.

==Repertoire==

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==Books and music==

In 1990 the BBC broadcast Joanna MacGregor’sMacGregor's radio play, ''Memoirs of an Amnesiac'', about the life of [[Erik Satie]], with [[Jim Broadbent]]. It was nominated for the [[Prix Italia]].

Her series of colourful piano teaching books for children, ''Piano World'', was published in May 2001 by [[Faber Music]]. The books feature storytelling, cartoons, games and include companion CDs, with music ranging from classical and jazz to [[Gospel music|gospel]] and [[hip hop]]. Her short piano piece, ''Lowside Blues'', was chosen for the [[Associated Board]] Grade 7 piano exams, and became very popular with young pianists worldwide.

Recent compositions have included ''Lute Songs'' (2008) (based on the music of [[Dowland]]), and ''Lost Highway'' (2010), for piano and orchestra. In 2012 she revived and re-worked, with director Richard Williams, a popular adaption of Mozart’sMozart's ''[[The Magic Flute]]'', for chamber ensemble and seven opera singers. It has toured extensively, and was chosen as her ‘swansong’ at Bath International Music Festival.

==Awards, honours, broadcasts==

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MacGregor was appointed [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to music.

Joanna MacGregor broadcasts regularly on television and radio; in 2012 she was the soloist in three [[BBC Proms]], and her performance of Bach's ''[[Goldberg Variations]]'' was broadcast live from the [[Royal Albert Hall|Albert Hall]] in 2013. She was the subject of an edition of ''[[The South Bank Show]]'' in December 2001 and presented her own series ''Strings, Bows, and Bellows'' for [[BBC]] television. She also filmed Bach’sBach's ''[[Well-Tempered Clavier]]'' for BBC television, as well as appearing in the ''Great Composers'' Series.

==Recordings and SoundCircus label==

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*'''Sidewalk Dances''': music by Moondog, with Andy Sheppard, Kuljit Bhamra, Seb Rochford, Britten Sinfonia SC010 (2006)

*'''Live in Buenos Aires''': Bach concertos and music by Piazzolla, Stravinsky and Gismonti, with Britten Sinfonia (2007)

*'''Bach''': The Goldberg Variations, recorded in Salzburg’sSalzburg's Mozarteum (2008)

*'''Messiaen''': Vingt Regards/Quatuor pour la fin du temps/Harawi, with soprano Charlotte Riedijk (2010)