Description: Richard Saxel has established a reputation as one of the most versatile concert pianists of his generation, and has partnerships with some of the most exciting chamber musicians in the country. He has won several major awards with a variety of colleagues, and has given recitals at most of the leading venues in this country. Richard was one of the six pianists in Piano Circus, with whom he performed and broadcast contemporary music at major festivals around the world. He studied the piano with the late Cliff
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One of Richard's great attributes as a performer is his versatility. Equally comfortable as a concerto soloist or as an accompanist, his career has taken him around the world. For four years he was one of the six pianists in Piano Circus, who perform and broadcast contemporary music at major festivals, and he has worked with a fascinating variety of artists, from Indonesian puppeteers to ballet dancers, tango musicians, trapeze artists, music theatre performers, opera and jazz singers and also with the Endy
Richard records as a soloist for the Quartz Music label. His debut CD of Janacek's 'On an Overgrown Path', Schumann's 'Waldscenen' Op.82 and Edward MacDowell's 'Woodland Sketches' Op.51 received outstanding reviews; '...a haunting claim for intimacy...to anyone who warms to introspection presented with an enviable taste and clarity, this recital is outstanding' (Gramophone), '...a spellbindingly eerie account...Saxel demonstrates a sensitive understanding of the composers' idiosyncratic means of expression'