Roy Howat
Biography
Roy Howat is known internationally as both a pianist and scholar. A graduate of King's College, Cambridge, he made a special study of French music in Paris with Vlado Perlemuter, and is one of the few British artists repeatedly invited to teach and play French music at such places as the Paris and Geneva conservatoires and on French radio.
Roy has given lectures and masterclasses around the world, including at the Juilliard and Eastman schools. He also holds university posts at Cambridge and in other countries.
He is one of the founding editors, with Pierre Boulez, of the Paris based Complete Debussy Edition, for which he has edited much of the piano music. Among his other publications are Urtext volumes of Fauré, the book Debussy in proportion, an English edition of Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger's classic Chopin, pianist and teacher as well as chapters in numerous other books on Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel and Bartók. He is also the AHRB Research Fellow in Creative and Performing Arts at the Royal College of Music, London.
Roy has concertised and broadcast with many distinguished soloists, chamber groups and singers. Recent performances include concerts with the Panocha Quartet in Japan and in 2001 he performed as both pianist and violist with the Sarastro Ensemble on a tour of Egypt.