Huw Watkins

Highly regarded as a performer of contemporary and twentieth-century music, Huw Watkins studied piano at Chetham’s School of Music and composition at Cambridge University and the Royal College of Music. He has premièred works by Alexander Goehr, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Michael Zev Gordon, and John Woolrich. Working regularly with Britten Sinfonia, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and BBC Symphony Orchestra, he also performs as a duo partner with many fine musicians. His discography includes recordings of Alexander Goehr’s Symmetry Disorders Reach, a cycle of fifteen solo piano pieces, and Thomas Adès’s song cycle The Lover in Winter with the counter-tenor Robin Blaze. His compositions have been commissioned, performed, and recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, English Chamber Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Nash Ensemble, Music Theatre Wales, and the Belcea and Petersen string quartets. Huw Watkins is Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music and Jerwood Associate Composer with Music Theatre Wales.