Nicholas Walker, “a prodigy of awesome technical fluency backed by exceptional artistry” (London Evening Standard), studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the Moscow Conservatoire. Winner of the first Newport International Piano competition, he has performed with major British Orchestras, given recitals worldwide, and recorded for the BBC, BMG, ASV, Chandos, Toccata Classics, Danacord and Naxos Grand Piano The sixth and last disc in his series of complete piano music of Balakirev for Grand Piano has just been released, a series which James Harrington of the American Record Guide has called the “reference set”; Damian Thompson, writing in the Spectator, said that the series “has to be heard to be believed”, while Jeremy Nicholas in the Gramophone described the playing as “bravura with integrity”.
Nicholas’s next recording project is a double CD of all the Liszt etudes and the Sonata in B minor. The Wigmore Hall has programmed a Balakirev Day on 27th April, 2024 and invited Nicholas to give a lunchtime recital and an evening concert that day.
Nicholas Walker teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he devised the celebrated keyboard skills course, the advanced level of which not only helps students to be proficient in all aspects of practical musicianship, but offers them the chance to learn how to improvise in various forms, such as minuets, variations, sonatinas and Mozart-type cadenzas, in addition to devising and performing a virtuoso transcription of their own.
Nicholas Walker, “a prodigy of awesome technical fluency backed by exceptional artistry” (London Evening Standard), studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the Moscow Conservatoire. Winner of the first Newport International Piano competition, he has performed with major British Orchestras, given recitals worldwide, and recorded for the BBC, BMG, ASV, Chandos, Toccata Classics, Danacord […]
