Lucy Parham
{{short description|British concert pianist and academic}}
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Lucy Parham (born 1966) is a British concert pianist and academic. She is a professor at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1984 she won Piano Class BBC Young Musician.
Biography
Parham grew up in Guildford, Surrey. She was educated at Bedales School, Hampshire and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under concert pianist, Professor Joan Havill.{{Cite web |url=https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/about_the_school/alumni/people_who_studied_at_guildhall/music_alumni_include/lucy_parham/ |title=Guildhall School of Music & Drama | Lucy Parham |access-date=2019-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329110817/https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/about_the_school/alumni/people_who_studied_at_guildhall/music_alumni_include/lucy_parham/ |archive-date=2019-03-29 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=https://soundcloud.com/guildhallschool/in-conversation-joan-havill-lucy-parham?in=guildhallschool%2Fsets%2Fguildhall-school-events&fbclid=IwAR3MoErgEYAgV004BV-Yikuzkcn2qGamGrWvrrQCZN9nN5Vw2VOzwd3mnJA|title=In Conversation: Joan Havill & Lucy Parham |access-date=2022-09-14}}
Parham has played in the UK and internationally, and is a regular contributor for BBC Radio 3. She has performed as a concerto soloist with The London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, The Halle, RTE Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Russian State Symphony Orchestra and on three tours with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
In 2002 she joined the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Barry Wordsworth on a six-week 50th anniversary tour of the US.
Parham is known for her Composer Portrait series of concerts and her interpretation of the music of Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann.{{cite news |title=Pianist Lucy Parham launches Composer Portrait Series at St John Smith Square |url=https://www.pianistmagazine.com/news/pianist-lucy-parham-launches-her-composer-portraits-series-at-st/ |access-date=1 April 2019 |publisher=Pianist Magazine}} She produced I Clara, to coincide with the bicentenary of Clara Schumann's birth in 2019.{{cite news |title=Lucy Parham announces I Clara |url=https://www.pianistmagazine.com/news/lucy-parham-announces-brand-new-show-i-clara-for-2019-debut/ |access-date=1 April 2019 |publisher=Pianist Magazine |date=December 2018}} She has also produced and performed Composer Portraits of Claude Debussy{{cite news |title=My Voyage round Debussy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jun/21/lucy-parham-debussy |access-date=1 April 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=June 2013}} and Chopin {{cite news |title=Lucy Parham brings the Chopin-Sand Relationship to life |url=http://seenandheard-international.com/2016/05/lucy-parham-brings-the-chopin-sand-relationship-to-life/ |access-date=1 April 2019 |publisher=Seen and Heard International |date=May 2015}}
She was artistic director of the Kings Place Coffee Concerts and of the Guildhall Spring Festival.
Frequent collaborators include actors Juliet Stevenson, Harriet Walter, Sheila Hancock and Henry Goodman.{{Cite web|title=News|url=http://lucyparham.com/news/|access-date=2021-05-19|website=Lucy Parham|language=en-GB}}
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Category:People educated at Bedales School
Category:Academics of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Category:Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Category:21st-century British classical pianists