Sarah Beth Briggs
Sarah Beth Briggs (born Newcastle upon Tyne, 2 June 1972) is a British classical pianist.
She was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician competition at the age of 11 in 1984 and one of the youngest recipients of a Myra Hess award at the same age. She won the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg at the age of 15. She studied in Newcastle, York and Birmingham with Denis Matthews and in Switzerland with Edith Fischer and, through a Hindemith Foundation chamber scholarship, Bruno Giuranna. She has also worked with Radu Lupu and John Lill.
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A soloist and chamber musician, she has broadcast, performed live and given masterclasses in the UK, around Europe, the USA and Russia and has worked with many international orchestras including the Halle, London Mozart Players, London Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. She leads three chamber groups, Anton Stadler Trio (with clarinettist Janet Hilton and violist Robin Ireland), Clarion³ (with Janet Hilton and bassoonist Laurence Perkins), and Trio Melzi (with violinist Richard Howarth and cellist Jonathan Price). She also teaches keyboard at the University of York.
She has produced recordings of Bartok, Beethoven, Brahms, Britten (the world premiere of whose Three Character Pieces she gave in 1989), Chopin, Haydn, Mozart and Rawsthorne on the Semaphore label.[1]
References
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