Artist Bio
In recognition of his contribution to cultural life, pianist and author Sir Stephen Hough became the first classical performer to be given a MacArthur Fellowship and was awarded a Knighthood for Services to Music in the Queen’s Birthday Honors 2022. In a career spanning over forty years, Hough has played regularly with most of the world’s leading orchestras including the Berlin, London, China, Seoul, and New York Philharmonic orchestras, and the Concertgebouw, Budapest Festival, and the NHK symphony orchestras. He has been a regular guest of recital series and festivals worldwide including Carnegie Hall, London’s Royal Festival Hall, Salzburg, Verbier, La Roque‑d’Anthéron, Aspen, Tanglewood, Aldeburgh, and Edinburgh. This season, his Piano Quintet inspired by an episode in American novelist Willa Cather’s My Ántonia, and commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 2024, will receive its European and UK premieres.
