Shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist of the Year award, David Pyatt won the prestigious BBC Young Musician of the Year competition at the age of fourteen. He embarked on a solo career with concerto engagements from major British orchestras throughout the United Kingdom as well as in Europe, North and South America and Japan. His extensive repertoire ranges from the works of Telemann, Haydn and Mozart to those of leading contemporary composers. His performance of Strauss's Horn Concerto No.1 at the 2004 Last Night of the Promswas televised and broadcast worldwide. David Pyatt has recorded for Erato, EMI, Hyperion, Chandos and Quartz and in 1996 he was named Gramophone Young Artist of the Year. In 1998 he was appointed Principal Horn of the London Symphony Orchestra, which has regularly featured him as a concerto soloist. His trio has performed at the Edinburgh Festival, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and at the BBC Chamber Proms and he returned to the Edinburgh Festival in 2007 to play a recital to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Dennis Brain.
NOVEMBER 2008