Richard Shaw

Pianist Richard Shaw enjoys giving concerts and broadcasting with a wide range of instrumentalists and singers. His many broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 include duo performances with violinists such as James Ehnes, Viviane Hagner, Leonidas Kavakos, So-Ock Kim, Pekka Kuusisto, Vadim Repin, Ittai Shapira and Nikolaj Znaider, cellists Matthew Barley, Narek Hakhnazaryan, Richard Harwood and Li Wei, Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Martin Fröst (clarinet) and singers Nicole Cabelle, Jennifer Smith, Ailish Tynan, Alice Coote, Ruby Philogene, Jean Rigby, Anna Larsson, Robin Blaze, Michael Chance, Paul Agnew, Hal Cazalet, Kurt Streit, Matthew Rose, Jonathan Veira and Robert Pomakov.

He is staff accompanist at the Royal Academy of Music, mostly working with the woodwind players and the conductors, and is currently writing biographies of the pianist Ronald Smith (1922-2004) and the distinguished Russian mezzo soprano, Maria Karinskaya (1882-1942).

The many composers with whom he has worked include Malcolm Arnold, Elena Firsova, Karl Jenkins, Yuri Kasparov, Patrick Nunn, Vladislav Shoot, Dmitri Smirnov and Barbara Thompson. Last summer Edward Cowie completed a cycle of 24 pieces (based on bird song) for him and saxophonist Gerard McChrystal. Their recording is released on the Métier label (MEX 77122) later this year.

He has performed with an entire alphabet of international flautists, including András Adorján, Robert Aitken, Pierre-Yves Artaud, Jeanne Baxtresser, Christine Beard, Sharon Bezaly, Sebastian Bell, William Bennett, Denis Bouriakov, Sarah Brooke, Rachel Brown, Wissam Boustany and on to Edith Van Dyke, Alena Walentin, Adam Walker, Elizabeth Walker, Emma Williams, Trevor Wye, Matthias Ziegler and Jacques Zoon.