Bryce Morrison (England)

Bryce Morrison is an internationally celebrated teacher, writer and broadcaster and is considered among the world's foremost authorities on piano performance. A student of Ronald Smith, Iso Elinson and Alexander Uninsky, he has published extensively and his books include a short, highly praised biography of Liszt. He has been a jury member of more than 50 international piano competitions and has chaired the jury of the Scottish International, Naumburg and International Terence Judd Award, where his jury colleagues included Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jorge Bolet and Lazar Berman. He has written more than 500 annotations for Decca, Philips, EMl, RCA and DG, including "In Memory of Terence Judd" and "The Art of Eileen Joyce." He has interviewed Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubinstein and Sir Clifford Curzon and written extended essays on virtually all the major pianists of our time. He has broadcasted and given master-classes world-wide and his students have appeared to great critical acclaim in the world's leading concert halls.

In 1999 he gave a marathon six lectures, seven master classes and chaired an international piano competition in the space of two weeks at New York's Mannes School of Music before working as a guest professor in Santa Barbara at the University of California. He has held the Corina Frada Pick Professorship of Advanced Piano Studies at the Ravinia Institute in Chicago and he is at present a professor at London's Royal Academy of Music, a guest professor at the Birmingham Conservatory of Music and a visiting professor at the Texas Conservatory for Young Artists in Plano, Texas. He holds seven degrees in literature and music and was recently awarded an Honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

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