Performance
Peter has given numerous concerts of contemporary music in London and throughout the UK. Abroad, he has given recitals at festivals in Germany, Portugal, and the USA. In January 2008, at the invitation of the Park Lane Group, he gave a critically acclaimed recital of French music as part of the Wigmore Hall’s Tribute to Paul Sacher, including the unpublished three movement version of Boulez’s Third Piano Sonata, with the composer’s permission. He subsequently performed recent piano music by Boulez in the composer’s presence, as part of the Boulez in Birmingham series. In early 2010, he gave a solo recital of contemporary British piano music at London’s South Bank Centre, and forthcoming concerts include appearances in Croatia and at the 2010 Bath Bach Festival. Of his NMC recording of Edwin Roxburgh’s Sonata for Piano, the reviewer in Gramophone magazine wrote: “Peter O’Hagan’s account of the Sonata is a tour de force of intelligent virtuosity”.
He is also a writer on music and his edited volume British Music of the 1990s was nominated as one of Classical Music magazine’s books of the year, 2004. His articles on the music of Boulez are featured in leading journals in the UK and in Europe, and he is currently working on a study of Boulez’s piano music, with the assistance of a Fellowship of the Leverhulme Trust.
