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Joanna MacGregor - Piano

St John's Smith Square, 20-May-2022 / 19:30

St James's Church, Piccadilly, 25-Jun-2021 (two performances)

Joanna MacGregor performed at a Chopin Society Gala together with cellist Gemma Rosefield and pianists Martin James Bartlett, Nicola Eimer, Lucas Krupinski and Piers Lane on the 17th of October 2021 at the Wigmore Hall.

Wigmore Hall, 24-Sep-2020 / 13:00

  • Bach: French Suite No. 5 in G BWV816
  • Chopin: Mazurkas Op. 30
  • Piazzolla: Five Tango Sensations (arr. Joanna MacGregor)

Wigmore Hall, 24-Feb-2020 / 19:30

  • Britten: Cello Sonata in C Op. 65
  • Frank Bridge: Cello Sonata in D minor
  • Freya Waley-Cohen: Amulet (world première)
  • Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57
  • Adrian Brendel - Cello
  • Gildas Quartet
  • Joanna MacGregor

Favourite pieces

Eleanor Alberga's It's Time performed in 2020 (September) and 2019 (February).

Tadd Dameron, Count Baise's Good Bait (as performed by Nina Simone, arr. Joanna MacGregor) performed in 2020 (September) and 2019 (February).

Wigmore Hall, 11-Nov-2019 / 13:00

  • Rameau:
    • Le rappel des oiseaux from Pièces de clavecin avec une methode pour la mechanique des doigts
    • La poule from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin
  • Couperin: Les fauvétes plaintives from Troisiéme livre de piéces de clavecin
  • Messiaen: Le merle noir
  • Janáček: X. The barn owl has not flown away! from On an Overgrown Path
  • Birtwistle: Oockooing Bird
  • Hossein Alizâdeh: Call of the Birds
  • Purcell: Ground in C minor ZD221
  • Glass:
    • Prophecies from Koyaanisqatsi
    • Knee Play No. 4 from Einstein on the Beach from Trilogy Sonata
  • Byrd: First Pavane from My Ladye Nevells Booke
  • Pachelbel: Ciacona in F minor
  • Handel: VI. Passacaglia from Suite in G minor HWV432

Kings Place, 28-Feb-2019 / 20:00

  • Beethoven:
    • Variations in C minor WoO 80
    • Sonata in F minor (Appassionata)
  • Nina Simone: Little Girl Blue
  • Alberto Ginastera: Danzas Argentinas Op. 2
  • Sofia Gubaidulina: Chaconne

Joanna MacGregor

Wigmore Hall, 12-May-2017 / 19:00

Kings Place, 10-Mar-2017 / 19:30

"MacGregor caught most of the delicacy and stillness in Für Alina by Arvo Pärt, a so-called “holy minimalist”, who pioneered this bell-like, tintinnabular style of writing." - J. Allison.

Kings Place, 8-Jan-2015 / 19:30

  • Satie:
    • Gymnopédies Nos 1, 2 and 3 (1888)
    • Pièces froides (1897)
    • Sports et divertissements (1914)
    • Mort de Socrate (Part III from Socrate; 1917-18)
  • Arvo Pärt:
    • Für Alina (1976)
    • Für Anna Maria (2006)
  • Stravinsky: Sonata for piano (1924)
  • Cage: Cheap Imitation I (1969)
  • Joanna MacGregor
  • Kate Howden - Mezzo-soprano (Socrate)
  • Tom Lee & Feargus Brennan - Percussion

Joanna MacGregor was

  • > appointed Professor of the University of London at the Royal Academy of Music in September 2013.
  • > given an OBE in 2012.

Wigmore Hall, 9-May-2014 / 22:00

  • Bach: Goldberg Variations BWV988

Royal Albert Hall, 4-Aug-2012 / 13:00

  • Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony (77 mins)

She made her BBC Chamber Proms debut on the 9th of September 1996 in a performance of Bach's The Art of Fugue as arranged by Joanna MacGregor, herself, and Madeleine Mitchell and made her BBC Proms debut on the 5th of August 1990 in a performance of Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conducted by Matthias Bamert.