Nicholas Walker, hailed by the Evening Standard as "...a prodigy, of awesome technical fluency backed by exceptional artistry" is to appear at the Landmark Theatre, Ilfracombe on Saturday 20th October.
Nicholas studied at the Royal Academy of Music where he won all the major awards for both piano and composition, and at the Moscow Conservatoire. He won the first Newport International Piano Competition while still a student in Moscow. Subsequently, he spent three years teaching at a music institute in Finland and performed chamber music, organ and harpsichord continuo, orchestral piano and piano accompaniment.
Nicholas has played with many British orchestras, including the City of Birmingham and National Symphony Orchestras, the Royal Philharmonic, London Festival and New Queen's Hall Orchestras, the Philharmonia and the BBC National Symphony Orchestra of Wales. He has recorded for BBC Radio 3, Cirrus, ASV and BMG Arte Nova, performed at all the major London concert halls, and in North and South America, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Scandinavia, and Australia. Equally at home in chamber music, he is also sought after as an imaginative and sensitive accompanist.
While Nicholas Walker's individual approach to Beethoven has brought him special acclaim - a London concert being hailed by The Times as "a masterly recital" with Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata "in a class of its own" - he has also been described as "a natural Balakirev performer" (Financial Times), having collected many tributes to his performance of the lyrical and late romantic. -- www.northdevontheatres.org.uk
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