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Roger Woodward AC OBE (born 20 December 1942) is an Australian classical and avant-garde pianist, composer, conductor and teacher.

Roger Woodward
AC OBE
Personal details
Born (1942-12-20) 20 December 1942 (age 79)
Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
Children3
Alma materSydney Conservatorium of Music
University of Sydney (DMus)
OccupationClassical pianist, composer, conductor, teacher
Websiterogerwoodward.com


Life and career



Early life


The youngest of four children,[1] Roger Woodward was born in Sydney where he received first piano lessons from Winifred Pope.[2] His mother[3] and second sister were amateur violinists and his father[4] and elder sister sang in the local Chatswood Church of Christ choir. On his first day at Chatswood Public School, he sat next to Peter Kraus, a boy who had survived the Auschwitz train four years before. The six-year olds became lifelong friends and, as he came to know Peter, his brother Paul, and the Kraus family, their story impacted his emerging vision and personal development.[5] He attended the Conservatorium High School and matriculated from North Sydney Boys' Technical High School with a Commonwealth scholarship.

Woodward with Alexander Sverjensky in the Green Room, Sydney Town Hall, 1964
Woodward with Alexander Sverjensky in the Green Room, Sydney Town Hall, 1964

Woodward's early studies of Bach organ works with Peter Verco led to his immersion in Bach's cantatas and passion music and training in church music with Kenneth R. Long, music master at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney.[6] He performed for the papal organist Fernando Germani[7] and Sir Eugene Goossens, chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra,[8] after which he entered the Sydney Conservatorium in the piano class of Alexander Sverjensky[9] (pupil of Alexander Glazunov, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Siloti) and the composition class of Raymond Hanson.[10]

In 1963, Woodward graduated with distinction from the Sydney Conservatorium and the Sydney Teachers' College.[11] In the same year, he founded and developed plans for the housing and funding of a competitive, international and quadrennial rostrum originally named the Sydney Piano Competition, together with the support of a wide circle of Sydney musicians and enthusiasts, which was achieved during 1972 to 76.[12]

From 1963 to 1965, Woodward continued his organ studies with Faunce Allman[13] while carrying out full-time duties as a choir director and secondary school teacher. During this period he mastered works by Australian composers and Tōru Takemitsu,[14] John Cage[15] Olivier Messiaen and his pupils: Alexander Goehr,[16] Karlheinz Stockhausen,[17][18] Iannis Xenakis,[19] Pierre Boulez and Jean Barraqué.[20][21][22][23] In 1964, he won the Commonwealth Finals of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Instrumental and Vocal Competition, the prize for which was to perform throughout Australia with the six ABC State Radio orchestras and in multiple radio and television broadcasts.[24]

Woodward and Lina Prokofieva , Warsaw, 1967.
Woodward and Lina Prokofieva , Warsaw, 1967.

From 1965–69, he pursued postgraduate studies at the National Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw, with Zbigniew Drzewiecki.[25] There he befriended the Cuban pedagogue Jorge Luis Herrero Dante and soon after, began working with Cuban composers Sergio Barroso, Juan Blanco, Leo Brouwer, and Carlos Fariñas.

During visits to London (1966–68), Woodward prepared Chopin manuscripts owned by British musicologist Arthur Hedley,[26] before including them in recitals at the Wigmore Hall and South Bank.[27] Contrary to some reports, Woodward did not enter the International Chopin Piano Competition. However, he regularly performed Chopin's music in Poland:[28] at the Twenty-Third International Chopin Festival, Duszniki-Zdrój (1968), at Żelazowa Wola (Chopin's birthplace), at the Kraków Spring Festival (1968) and at the Ostrowski Palace on several occasions. He also performed the complete works of Chopin (by heart) at the Sydney Festival 1983-1985 in support of the Solidarność Movement to raise public awareness of the importance of Poland's struggle for human rights.

In 1967, Woodward played for Lina Prokofieva in Warsaw[29] and was soon invited to perform with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra throughout Poland.[30] Two years later, he toured extensively with the Wiener Trio[31] performed in Cuba[32] as guest of Casa de las Américas and at the Paris Jeunesses Musicales where the UNESCO Rostrum's two principal jury members, Yehudi Menuhin and Jack Lang, noticed Woodward's performances of his own compositions[33] alongside works of J. S. Bach, Chopin, Scriabin and Prokofiev. Soon after he made his debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra[34] at the Royal Festival Hall, London and on Menuhin's recommendation, his first four recordings for EMI.[35]

In 1971, Woodward performed his first recital at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall[36] with premieres of works by Richard Meale, Ross Edwards, Leo Brouwer, Takemitsu and Barraqué,[37][38] after which he was invited by Robert Slotover, CEO, Allied Artists Management, to co-found a series of new music concerts known as the London Music Digest[39] at the Roundhouse.

Digest performances with Barraqué[40] were followed by a close working relationship with the composer on his Sonate pour piano[41][42][43][44] at the EMI Abbey Road Studios, then in Paris and at the Royan Festival. Woodward also worked with John Cage at the Roundhouse[45] for the British premiere of HPSCHD for ICES (International Carnival of Experimental Sound) and the BBC Proms. Further collaborations were undertaken with Stockhausen at the Festival Hall, London,[46][17] and with Takemitsu at the Roundhouse,[47] [48] London's Decca Studios, and the Music Today Festival, Tokyo.[49]

From left to right: Sviatoslav Richter, Roger Woodward and Norman Lawrence, Black Forest, Germany , 1985.
From left to right: Sviatoslav Richter, Roger Woodward and Norman Lawrence, Black Forest, Germany , 1985.

A partnership also began with Pierre Boulez and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Roundhouse,[50] the Cheltenham Festival,[51] and with Bernard Rands for the premiere of Mésallianz for piano and orchestra. His collaboration with Iannis Xenakis 1974–96[52] extended from France to the UK, Austria, Italy, and the United States,[19] during which Xenakis dedicated three works to him, as did Rolf Gehlhaar,[53] Takemitsu,[54] Anne Boyd,[55] and Morton Feldman.[56] Performing their works established his reputation as the leading exponent of new music of his time.

Steeped in church music and traditional repertoire, Woodward trained throughout his early life to perform established works side by side with more recent music as part of a belief that music was the essential expression of an experimental process. His concerts reflected this belief even though such programming was widely considered unorthodox for the time.[57] He placed new works by Anne Boyd and Richard Meale alongside those of Scriabin, late Beethoven and J.S. Bach at the Edinburgh Festival.[58] In Los Angeles, for the first half of three Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts,[59] he performed Liszt's Totentanz and Xenakis alongside J.S. Bach solo harpsichord concertos with the Tokyo String Quartet. In recital, he often programmed traditional eighteenth- and nineteenth-century repertoire with new, little known, or neglected works such as those he championed by experimental fin de siècle Russian, Ukrainian and early Soviet composers[60] Alexander Scriabin, Alexander Mosolov, Nikolai Roslavets, Ivan Vyshnegradsky, Nikolai Obukhov, Aleksei Stanchinsky.[61] His performances of the complete works of Scriabin attracted exceptional critical reviews.[62]


Middle years


In 1973, Woodward worked with Stockhausen and Jerzy Romaniuk [pl] on Mantra for two ring-modulated pianos at Imperial College London (Lecture 7 in 3 parts),[63] with Anne Boyd in Sussex, UK, on Angklung, and with Takemitsu on the premiere of For Away, Corona ("London version"), and the recording of his complete piano music to that point in London's Decca studios. That September, he participated in the inaugural celebrations of the Sydney Opera House as soloist for an extended tour with the six principal Australian Broadcasting Commission orchestras and premiered a series of ABC commissions, including a septet, As It Leaves the Bell, by Anne Boyd for piano, two harps and percussion.

From left to right: Bill Colleran (UE London), Morton Feldman and Woodward. World premiere of Piano and Orchestra directed by Hans Zender, Rencontres internationales de musique contemporaine [fr] (Metz Festival), 1975.[64]
From left to right: Bill Colleran (UE London), Morton Feldman and Woodward. World premiere of Piano and Orchestra directed by Hans Zender, Rencontres internationales de musique contemporaine [fr] (Metz Festival), 1975.[64]

January 1974 saw Woodward invited by Witold Rowicki on an extensive tour of the US with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra,[65] during which he made his debut at Carnegie Hall.[66] That year, Woodward founded Music Rostrum Australia at the Sydney Opera House where he collaborated with Australian composer Richard Meale and guests Luciano Berio, Cathy Berberian, David Gulpilil and Yuji Takahashi. He began performing with the Cleveland Orchestra directed by Lorin Maazel,[67] and became a regular guest in Los Angeles with the Philharmonic directed by Zubin Mehta,[68] with whom he subsequently performed (1972–89) in New York, Tel Aviv, and Paris.[69] He appeared regularly at Festival d'automne à Paris [fr][70] BBC Promenade Concerts,[71] at Teatro La Fenice for La Biennale di Venezia (with Péter Eötvös and the Norddeutscher Rundfunkorchester),[72] Warszawska Jesień, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Wien Modern[73] with Claudio Abbado,[29] at the New York Piano Festival,[74] Festival de la Roque d'Anthéron and at the Ferme de Meslay [fr], Touraine, at the invitation of its artistic director, Sviatoslav Richter.[75]In 1992, Woodward directed an all-Xenakis program at Scala di Milano.[76] He also performed at outdoor venues including the Hollywood Bowl (Stravinsky); Odéon of Herodes Atticus, Athens[77] On four occasions he performed with Cecil Taylor in the Gulbenkian Park, Lisbon (1986–92) and on several occasions at The Domain with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Beethoven and Tchaikovsky). In traditions pioneered by Dame Nellie Melba and Percy Grainger, he performed extensively throughout Central and Regional Australia, often in outdoor venues.

In 1975, he premiered Morton Feldman's Piano and Orchestra[78] with the Saarbrücken Rundfunkorchester at the Rencontres internationales de musique contemporaine [fr] (Metz Festival) (in the composer's presence) directed by Hans Zender. It was the year when Woodward first encountered Anne Boyd's a cappella masterpiece: As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams, which made a profound impact upon him. [79] Then in June and July, as Dmitri Shostakovich lay dying in a Moscow Cancer Clinic, he made the first complete recording in the West of his 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, in tribute to the great Russian composer.

Woodward and Australian prime minister Bob Hawke at a Solidarity meeting, 1984
Woodward and Australian prime minister Bob Hawke at a Solidarity meeting, 1984

In 1977, he premiered Feldman's solo work Piano[80] (which was dedicated to Woodward)[81] in Baden- Baden, commissioned Elisabeth Lutyens for a work for solo piano and two chamber orchestras, (Nox, Op.118),[82] and, following the Valldemosa Festival, began a collaboration with Alberto Ginastera which continued until 1979. 1978 saw his first performance of the complete cycle of Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas at the Adelaide Festival, repeated at Kenwood House, London, the following year and in 1980 for the Sydney Festival. In the same year he premiered the Xenakis solo piano work Mists in Edinburgh (in the composer's presence). A further performance of the Beethoven cycle followed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. At London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, he gave the world premiere of Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories[83] in the presence of the composer—a ninety-minute masterpiece which heralded the composer's late period.

In 1982, Woodward performed the five Beethoven Piano Concertos on three occasions: with Elyakum Shapirra and the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra, and twice with Georg Tintner, first with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and then with the Queensland Theatre Orchestra.[84] During this time he was active for the Polish Solidarność Trades Union Movement, leading to his being banned from performing throughout Eastern Europe. As the ban took hold elsewhere. it was accompanied by misleading statements, rumours and damaging criticism from the Soviet Block. Throughout this period the artist remained loyal to the Solidarność Trades Union Movement, leading to his being banned not only in Eastern Europe but, unexpectedly, by some leading Western concert managements, festival directors, and symphony orchestra administrators. Despite this, he was the recipient of a second work (of three dedicated to him) by Xenakis—his third and final composition for piano and orchestra—Keqrops,[85] which was premiered in November 1986 at the Lincoln Center, NY, with New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Mehta,[86] The following year, he repeated Keqrops for the BBC Proms (again in the composer's presence). That year, he also performed Barraqué at De Ysbreeker [nl], Amsterdam, premiered Áskell Másson's Piano Concerto in Reykjavik (again in the composer's presence),[87] and, in 1989 Rolf Gehlhaar' Diagonal Flying in Geneva together with the composer.[88] That same year Woodward founded the Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music which continued until 2001.

Despite the downfall of Communism, the former Soviet disinformation campaign continued, with repeated attempts to remove Solidarność activists' credibility and careers through an ongoing embargo. Nevertheless, Woodward worked with the New York, Los Angeles, Beijing and Israel Philharmonic orchestras, five London orchestras, the Hallé Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, London Mozart Players, London Brass, RTE Radio, the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish National Orchestra, the Estonian National Orchestra, the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Berlin Radio Orchestra, L'orchestre National de Paris, L'orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Mahlerjugendorchester, EEC Youth Orchestra, the Australian Youth Orchestra, and the Budapest and Prague Chamber Orchestras. He also collaborated with the following artists: Charles Dutoit, Lorin Maazel, Yoel Levi, Edo de Waart, Sir Charles Mackerras, Enrique Bátiz Campbell, Kurt Masur,[89] Nello Santi, Paavo Berglund, Moshe Atzmon, Marin Alsop, Henry Kripps, Tibor Paul, Albert Rosen, Werner Andreas Albert, Matthias Bamert, Henry Lewis, Isaiah Jackson, Dean Dixon, Georg Tintner, Hans-Hubert Schönzeler, Tan Lihua, Sir William Southgate, Simon Romanos, Gyula Németh, David Atherton, Erich Leinsdorf, Eliahu Inbal, James Judd, Walter Susskind, Herbert Blomstedt, Georges Tzipine, Arturo Tamayo, Robert Busan, Lukas Foss, Péter Eötvös, Zakarias Grafilo, Sir John Pritchard, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Andrew Davis, Willem van Otterloo, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Lamberto Gardelli, Colman Pearce, and Sir Alexander Gibson.[citation needed] Although the embargo was extensive, Woodward and other Australian artists were invited by Symphony Australia to perform a limited number of orchestral concerts, after the personal intervention of Prime Minister Paul Keating.

Woodward with Iannis Xenakis, Lincoln Center NYC for world pPremiere of Keqrops performed with Zubin Mehta and the NY Philharmonic Orchestra, 1986
Woodward with Iannis Xenakis, Lincoln Center NYC for world pPremiere of Keqrops performed with Zubin Mehta and the NY Philharmonic Orchestra, 1986

Throughout this period, he performed with the Arditti, Tokyo, New Zealand, Australian and Sydney string quartets, the Australia Ensemble, the Edinburgh String Quartet, JACK Quartet and the Alexander String Quartet, with whom he recorded Beethoven,[90] Chopin,[91] Shostakovich,[92] and Robert Greenberg.[93] He also collaborated with harpsichordist George Malcolm and jazz pianist Cecil Taylor in Lisbon, Paris, for the Patras Festival, and for extensive tours of the UK Contemporary Music Network from 1987–94. He worked with musicologists Charles Rosen, Paul Griffiths, H. C. Robbins-Landon, Richard Toop, Paul M. Ellison, Nouritza Matossian and Sharon Kanach; violinists Philippe Hirschhorn, Ivry Gitlis, Ilya Grubert, Winfried Rademacher, Asmira-Woodward-Page and Wanda Wiłkomirska; violist James Creitz [de]; cellists Rohan de Saram, Nathan Waks, Jacopo Scalfi and David Pereira; Synergy Percussion, Chris Dench, Adrian Jack, Elena Kats-Chernin, Alessandro Solbiati; the flautists Laura Chislett, Pierre Yves- Artaud; pianists: Yuji Takahashi, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Stephanie McCallum, Robert Curry, Noel Lee and Simon Tedeschi. He also worked with James Dillon, James Morrison, David Gulpilil, Robyn Archer and Frank Zappa. Nominated by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Premier Neville Wran, Woodward became a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 1992. The following year, Polish President Lech Wałęsa, conferred his nation's highest honour upon a foreigner—the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (OM).

During the 1990s Woodward toured China twice,[94] co-founded and directed the Kötschach-Mauthner Musikfest (1992–97),[95] the Joie et Lumière concert series (under the patronage of Lord Paul Hamlyn and Lady Helen Hamlyn) at Château de Bagnols, Bourgogne 1997–2004,[96] in tribute to the memory of Sviatoslav Richter, and an annual concert series—the Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music 1989–2001, when he collaborated with Arvo Pärt and Horatiu Radulescu.[97] He commissioned a series of three piano concertos from Larry Sitsky. The first was premiered at the 1994 Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music and recorded in 1997. In 1995 it was selected by the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers for citation. Between 1992-98 he was awarded four doctorates honoris causa[98] and in 1999, completed the degree of Doctor of Music at the University of Sydney.

Woodward's performances as a conductor received wide critical acclaim: with the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra;[99] the Sydney Dance Company at the Sydney Opera House in a collaboration with its artistic director Graeme Murphy in twenty-five performances of the Xenakis ballet Kraanerg;[100][101][102] the Shanghai Conservatory Orchestra; in the UK for BBC2 Television;[103] with the Alpha Centauri Ensemble (twenty-three musicians) at Scala di Milano;[104] and in the Festival d'automne à Paris [fr][105] the Academia Santa Cecilia, Rome; at the Biblioteca Salaborsa, Bologna;[106] and for the Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music (1989–2001).[107] His compositions have been performed in Poland, Australia, Cuba, the Netherlands, France, and the UK at the Almeida International New Music Festival (August, 1990). His work Sound by Sound—for live and recorded pianos, percussion and live electronics—was commissioned by the Festival d'automne à Paris for the bicentennial celebrations of the French Revolution.

From eighteen Woodward taught in Sydney, then in Warsaw, during his studies at the Chopin National University. He taught in London and at the BBC Dartington master classes, was chair of Music at the University of New England (Australia)[108] and chair of the School of Music, San Francisco State University where he is currently professor. [29] Woodward lectured and/or gave master classes in Germany, Finland, Poland, Cuba, Mexico, the UK, US, China, New Zealand and Australia. He is a regular guest of international piano competition juries. Some of his students include Norman Lawrence, Carmel Gammal (née Ettinger), Geoffrey Abdallah, Peter Donohoe and Alan Kogosowski.[citation needed]


Reception


His iconic performances[109][110] and recordings with Pierre Boulez,[111] Jean Barraqué,[112][113][114] Iannis Xenakis,[115][116][117] Karlheinz Stockhausen,[63] Sylvano Bussotti,[118][119] John Cage,[120] Morton Feldman,[121][81] Anne Boyd,[122] and Toru Takemitsu[123][124] are established classics, characterized by unusual precision and penetrating insight.[125]

Innovative interpretations of J.S. Bach,[126] [127][128][129] Beethoven,[130][131] Debussy,[132][133] [134] Scriabin,[135] [62] and Shostakovich[136][137][138] provide a strong and original direction in a redefinition of traditions, sometimes reviewed as unorthodox for their modernity.


Principal awards and honours



Principal recordings and publications


Woodwards's principal recordings have been issued by ABC Classics (Australia), Accord (France), Artworks (Australia), BMG, Col Legno (Munich), CPO, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Etcetera Records BV, Explore Records, Foghorn Classics (San Francisco), JB (Australia), Polskie Nagrania, Sipario Dischi (Milano), Unicorn (UK), Universal, Warner and RCA Red Seal (UK) for whom Woodward made the first complete recording (in the West) of Dmitry Shostakovich's Twenty-four Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, at the time of the composer's death.[143] It was rereleased by Celestial Harmonies (2010).

Woodward's live concerts have been recorded for ABC Radio/TV, BBC Radio/TV, Radio NZ, RAI, Radio France, Radio/TV Cuba, Hong Kong Radio, Radio China, Radio/TV Japan, Polish Radio/TV, RTE (Dublin), multiple German radio stations including Radio Berlin; Hilversum Radio (Netherlands), for the UNESCO Rostrum/Paris and You Tube. DVDs have been issued Allied Artists (UK), BBC TV Productions, Chanan Productions (UK), Foghorn Classics (San Francisco), Kultur (China), Polygram (Australia), Smith Street Films (Australia) and the Sydney Dance Company.

Tōru Takemitsu and Woodward in the Decca studios London, during their 1973 recording of Corona (London version) For Away, Piano Distance and Undisturbed Rest
Tōru Takemitsu and Woodward in the Decca studios London, during their 1973 recording of Corona ("London version") For Away, Piano Distance and Undisturbed Rest

Three Celestial Harmonies compact disc recordings were named "Record of the Month" by MusicWeb International: Debussy Préludes Books 1 and 2 (March 2010); Roger Woodward In Concert (October 2013) and Prokofiev Works for Solo Piano 1908-1938 (April 2013),[144]this recording was nominated Best Classical Album at Australia's 1992 Aria awards. A recording for Etcetera BV of Scriabin's Piano Works was "Record of the Month" on Musicweb International (July 2002).The Etcetera BV release (1989) of Xenakis' Kraanerg with the Alpha Centauri Ensemble directed by Roger Woodward was selected by the music critics of The Sunday Times, UK, as one of the most outstanding releases of that year: " A stringent and sustained electro acoustical experience."

Woodward was the recipient of the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (2007), for performances of J. S. Bach's Partitas BWV 826 and 830, and Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903. This recording was also named one of the finest of the year by MusicWeb International (2008) and nominated as Best Classical Album at Australia's 1993 Aria awards. His performances of J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered-Clavier was Editor's Choice for The Gramophone, UK (February 2010). Both were recorded by Ulrich Kraus and produced by Eckart Rahn as part of twelve projects for Celestial Harmonies (2006–15).

In 1991, Woodward shared the Diapason d'or with fellow Australian and senior ABC recording producer Ralph Lane, for their recording of Morton Feldman's solo piano music (ABC Classics). This recording was Record of the Month in April 1991 (Télérama, Paris) and reviewed: "Roger Woodward – à qui Triadic Memories est dédiée – est tout bonnement sublime."[This quote needs a citation] In June, 1991, it was reviewed by Le monde de la musique: "Il fallait un pianiste rompu à toutes les difficultés, et doté de moyens pianistiques supérieurs pour rendre justice à ces oeuvres-limits; c'est Roger Woodward, et il est parfaite."[This quote needs a citation]

Ralph Lane recorded a wide range of live and studio projects with Woodward (1988-2018) some of which were named Record of the Month, including the aforementioned Prokofiev, Scriabin and Xenakis recordings. In 1991, he was recipient of the Ritmo Prize (Spain) for his Etcetera BV recording of Takemitsu's piano music (also produced by Lane). In June 1991, the same recording was Record of the Month (Télérama, Paris (January, 1991) and reviewed: "Roger Woodward est épatant. Enregistrement essentiel". In 2008, his recording of The Music of Frédéric Chopin was nominated Best Classical Album at Australia's Aria Awards.

In 2015, ABC Classics/Universal released A Concerto Collection comprising ten live concert and four studio performances of: J. S. Bach Keyboard Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052, Haydn Keyboard Concerto in F major, Hob XVIII, 6, Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op.37, Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58, Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op.11, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op.18, Scriabin Piano Concerto in F-sharp major, Op. 20, Scriabin Symphony No. 5 Op. 60 (Prometheus), Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major Op.26, Schoenberg Piano Concerto Op. 42, Larry Sitsky Piano Concerto No. 1, Barry Conyngham Double Concerto for violin and piano, Qu Xiao-Song Huang, and Xenakis Kraanerg.

He is published by Routledge Press, UK,[145] HarperCollins,[146] Kindle, the Greenway Press, N.Y., the Pendragon Press, NY,[147] Praeger, New York[148] and the E. R. P. Musikverlag, Berlin.[149] He has published chapters in two monographs for the University of Sydney, Jean Barraqué in Matters of the Mind, edited by Catherine Runcey (2001), and Music And Change: Some Considerations of the Sonata quasi una fantasia in C-sharp minor, Op.27, No.2, in Literature and Aesthetics (1998).


Personal life


Woodward (right) with his children (from left): Elroy, Patricia and Ben, Cazenac 2018
Woodward (right) with his children (from left): Elroy, Patricia and Ben, Cazenac 2018

Woodward has three children: Asmira,[150] a concert violinist (mother, Prudence Page). Benjamin, director of Academy Tennis (mother, Patricia Ludgate to whom Woodward was married from 1989 to 2009), and foster son, Elroy Palmer.[29]


Bibliography



See also



References


  1. Bonnie Lois, b. February 1931, Maureen Caroline, b. November 1936, James Francis, b. January 1940, Roger Robert, b. December 1942.
  2. Woodward 2015, p. 45.
  3. Gladys Alma, b. 26 May 1904, second daughter of Sarah Bennett and Robert Bracken.
  4. Francis William Wilson b. 20 August 1901, first son of Jesse Elizabeth Wilson and Thomas William Woodward.
  5. Clara Kraus, 1987; Peter Kraus, 2020; Paul Kraus, 2015.
  6. Woodward 2015, p. 1-35.
  7. Woodward 2015, p. 61.
  8. Woodward 2015, p. 63-66.
  9. Woodward 2015, pp. 45, 80.
  10. Woodward 2015, p. 103-11.
  11. Woodward 2015, p. 79-100.
  12. Woodward 2015, p. 128.
  13. Woodward 2015, p. 114-15.
  14. Woodward 2015, p. 323-25.
  15. Woodward 2015, p. 313-20.
  16. Solo piano works recorded in 1986 by Woodward for BBC Radio 3.
  17. Stockhausen 1973.
  18. Woodward 2015, pp. 425, 435–436.
  19. Woodward 2015, p. 353-99.
  20. Barraqué 2019.
  21. Heribert 1997.
  22. Griffiths 2003.
  23. Hodeir 1961.
  24. Woodward 2015, p. 123-30.
  25. Woodward 2015, p. 138-40.
  26. Woodward 2015, p. 164-67.
  27. Woodward 2015, p. 163.
  28. Programs are available in the NLA Roger Woodward's Collection: Woodward, Roger (1960), Papers of Roger Woodward, 1960-2017
  29. Woodward 2018.
  30. Woodward 2015, p. 155-56.
  31. Woodward 2015, p. 209.
  32. Woodward 2015, p. 202-3.
  33. Woodward 2015, p. 208.
  34. Woodward 2015, p. 212.
  35. OASD 7560, 7561, 7562, 7567—EMI catalogue numbers of Woodward's first four commercial recordings released 1970 following Yehudi Menuhin's statement to the EMI Recording Co. shortly after hearing Woodward's Jeunesses Musicales performances in Paris, 1969: "Roger Woodward's performances of contemporary music showed that there were just so many different ways that he was able to interest and fascinate the listener, not only with sounds freely produced at the keyboard, but with magical sounds that came from inside the piano, from under it; from every possible part of the instrument. In every context his playing was beautiful, sensitive and wonderfully musical; his approach personal and imaginative as was proved by his Skryabin and Chopin." EMI subsequently printed the statement in full on each of the recordings.
  36. Woodward 2015, p. 210.
  37. Woodward 2015, p. 451-52.
  38. Janzen, Rose-Marie; Jack, Adrian (1989). "A Biographical Chronology of Jean Barraqué". Perspectives of New Music. 27 (1): 234–45. doi:10.2307/833269. JSTOR 833269 via JSTOR.
  39. London Music Digest, The Roundhouse London, 1970s, https://www.discogs.com/Roger-Woodward-Jean-Barraqu%C3%A9-Sylvano-Bussotti-Leo-Brouwer-The-London-Music-Digest-From-The-Round-Ho/release/6479510; Woodward 2015, pp. 211, 326–29, 334, 389, 419, 423–25.
  40. Woodward 2015, p. 400-4.
  41. Hodeir, André. 1961. La musique depuis Debussy. Paris: Presses universitaires de France. English edition, as Since Debussy: A View of Contemporary Music. pp- 193-196Translated by Noël Burch. Evergreen original, E-260. New York: Grove Press; London: Secker and Warburg, 1961.https://www.harmonies.com/13325-2_woodward_barraque/hodeir_barraque.pdf
  42. Woodward 2002, p. 31-42.
  43. Jobling 2001.
  44. Woodward 2015, p. 576-78.
  45. This collaboration is detailed in the 1972 BBC Promenade Concerts publication booklet (online) and, in addition to Woodward, involved David Tudor, Cornelius Cardew, John Tilbury, Frederick Page, Annea Lockwood, and Richard Bernas, directed by John Cage.
  46. Woodward 2015, p. 423.
  47. Ohtake 1998.
  48. Woodward 2015, p. 327-30.
  49. 2015, p. 331-32.
  50. Woodward 2015, p. 416-17.
  51. Woodward 2015, p. 160.
  52. Kanach 2010.
  53. Worked together with Rolf Gehlhaar in Strangeness, Charm and Colour (1978), Diagonal Flying (1989), and Quantum Leap (1994).
  54. Worked together with Toru Takemitsu: Undisturbed Rest (1952-59), For Away (1973), and Corona—London Version (1973).
  55. Anne Boyd, Angklung (1974), The Book of Bells I, II, III, IV, Meditation on a Chinese Character (1996), and Kabarli Meditation (Dawn) (2012).
  56. Feldman 2000, p. 152-54; Worked together with Morton Feldman, Piano and Orchestra (1975), Piano (1977), and Triadic Memories (1981)..
  57. The Financial Times, Music on the West Coast by Dominic Gill, 24 May 1972, http://www.rogerwoodward.com/images/PDF/LAPO-Mehta-Hollywood_Bowl.pdf The article covers a series of New Music concerts at UCLA where Zubin Mehta directed the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Roger Woodward's debut performance program was a mixture of a recital of modern music-Australian Richard Meale's Coruscations, Japanese Toru Takemitsu's Undisturbed Rest, Cuban, Leo Brouwer's Sonate pian'e forte well as Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata. This contemporary music marathon went on to include Xenakis' Eonta for piano and five brass from the LAPO. The rehearsal was attended by Olivier Messiaen, a personal friend of Iannis Xenakis and his composition teacher, who personally corrected the brass parts during rehearsal. His wife, Yvonne Loriod, was also present at rehearsal, along with comedian Danny Kaye.
  58. Woodward 2015, p. 456-57.
  59. Woodward 2015, p. 354-55.
  60. Dominy Clements wrote in Music Web International about Roger Woodward's Music of the Russian Avant-Garde 1905-1926 (Celestial Harmonies, 13255-2) recording: "This fascinating collection of works covers the period of transition from Tsarist Russia to the establishment of the Soviet Union. To a certain extent it relates to Woodward's re-release of the Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, by Shostakovich on Celestial Harmonies 14302-2 (see review), which, dating from 1975, has acquired its own historical significance. Many of these pieces are little-known compositions that Woodward discovered as a student in Warsaw in the early 1970s, gaining access to rare works from Prokofiev's widow Lina Prokofieva."
  61. Woodward 2015, p. 554 (item 70).
  62. Beaumont, Damien (23 May 2022). "Roger Woodward plays Scriabin at the 10th Sydney Spring Festival in 1999". ABC Classic.
  63. Stockhausen's Mantra lecture managed by Allied Artists (London); filmed at Imperial College, London July 19, 1973.
  64. Feldman, Morton (1975). Piano and Orchestra | UE16076. Universal Edition. ISBN 9783702426606.
  65. Woodward 2015, pp. 498–500.
  66. Woodward 2015, p. 213.
  67. Woodward 2015, pp. 496–97.
  68. Woodward 2015, p. 354.
  69. Woodward 2015, pp. 361–62.
  70. Woodward 2015, pp. 264–265, 308–309, 382.
  71. Woodward 2015, pp. 163, 358.
  72. Woodward 2015, pp. 297–98.
  73. Woodward 2015, p. 383.
  74. Woodward 2015, p. 282.
  75. Woodward 2015, p. 317-19.
  76. With the musicians of the Alpha Centauri Ensemble during which he premiered Xenakis' "Paille in the Wind" with Jacopo Scalfi.
  77. Program of the Athens 1979 Festival https://iscm.org/wnmd/1979-athens; September 1979, Woodward played Liszt's Les jeux d'eaux à la villa d'este, Feldman's Piano (1977), and premiered Rolf Gehlhaar's Strangeness, Charm and Colour with London Brass, at the Odéon Herodes Atticus at the 52nd International Society for Contemporary Music Festival (ISCM World Music Days).
  78. In "Morton Feldman in conversation with Christopher Gough and Roger Woodward Edinburgh, August 1980" https://www.cnvill.net/mfgoughwoodward.pdf
  79. Anne Boyd, As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (Faber & Faber: London, 1975).
  80. Feldman, Morton (1977). Piano| UE16516. Universal Edition. ISBN 9783702419875.
  81. "Morton Feldman: The Johannesburg Masterclasses, July 1983- Session 5: Works by Feldman (Piano)"https://www.cnvill.net/mfmasterclasses05.pdf
  82. 1977.
  83. Les griffures du silence de Morton Feldman Le Monde Renaud Machart 31.10.97, p.29. Machart, Renaud (10 October 1997). "Les griffures du silence de Morton Feldman". Le Monde. p. 29.
  84. Now the Queensland Orchestra.
  85. Matossian (2005); Anther (1986).
  86. Varga 1996, p. 182-83.
  87. 2015, p. 244.
  88. Woodward 2015, pp. 442–43.
  89. Roger Covell wrote in Sydney Morning Herald (November 22, 1977) about Woodward's recording of the Brahms First Piano Concert with Kurt Masur (RCA RS 25031 LP), http://www.rogerwoodward.com/images/PDF/Brahms_1_PC_with_NPO,_Kurt_Masur,_RCA.pdf/; Sviatoslav Richter described this performance thus: "Brahms: robuste, viril, convaincant." Sviatoslav Richter and Bruno Monsaingeon Notebooks and Conversations (London: Faber & Faber, 2005), p. 341.
  90. Piano Quartet No.3 in C major, WoO36, in a co-production recorded for Celestial Harmonies and Radio Bremen, Germany, 13277-2.
  91. Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, Op.21, in a co-production recorded for Celestial Harmonies and Radio Bremen, Germany, 13277-2.
  92. Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57, for Foghorn Classics, CD 1988.
  93. Invasive Species for Piano Quintet.
  94. Woodward 2015, p. 276-77.
  95. Woodward 2015, p. 278.
  96. Woodward 2015, pp. 278, 504.
  97. Woodward 2015, p. 476-81.
  98. Doctor of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong (1992); Doctor of Music, University of Sydney (1996); Doctor of Letters, University of New England (1998); and Doctor of Laws, University of Alberta, Canada (1998).
  99. The programs are in the NLA Roger Woodward Collection.
  100. Performance recording on https://www.youtube.com/watch?vxBMvJrdoFP4; the concert programme is in the NLA Roger Woodward Collection. Compact disc recorded in 1989 by Etcetera Records BV.
  101. Whittall, Arnold. "Xenakis Kraanerg". Gramophone. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  102. "Xenakis: Kraanerg". BBC Music Magazine. 20 January 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  103. Dench Planetary Allegiances recorded for BBC2TV, London; Grateful Dead/Rex Foundation (Dec. 1992); NLA Collection. Composer's statement 1992 Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music program publication, p. 15; copy of MS in NLA.
  104. Program notes and photos of the concert available in the Scala di Milano's online archives: https://www.teatroallascala.org/archivio/interpreti.aspx?lang=en-US&id_allest=3841&id_event=8868&id_allest_conc=23458&uid=2dd1d15f-cd94-454c-9a66-05781920f434&objecttype=base.
  105. Festival d'automne à Paris—in the NLA Roger Woodward Collection. The all-Xenakis programme was recorded by Radio France at the Festival d'automne, December 1992, by the Alpha Centauri Ensemble in the presence of the composer.
  106. The program is in the NLA Roger Woodward Collection.
  107. The program is in the NLA Roger Woodward Collection Woodward 2018
  108. University of New England Handbook 2001.
  109. "For decades Roger Woodward had been an icon of new piano music and had worked with practically all important composers of the day. Hans Otte characterized him as 'sensitive but has power; a musical genius.' " Wilfried Schäper, Musikredaktion, Radio Bremen, Germany, January 6, 2007, review of live concert recording in the Sendesaal, Celestial Harmonies Booklet 13324.
  110. Vincent Plush, reviewing a performance in the Canberra International Music Festival of the two books of Chopin Études and works by Debussy in Limelight Magazine (April 30, 2018), https://limelightmagazine.com.au/news/canberra-international-music-festival-opening-weekend-roundup/.
  111. The Politics of Music (1972) by Michael Chanan Productions, BBC2, interview with Pierre Boulez, Roger Woodward at rehearsal with BBCSO for BBC Roundhouse world premiere of Bernard Rands Mésallianz for piano and chamber orchestra: http://vimeo.com/13799532.
  112. Jean Barraqué'—public statement concerning Woodward's performance of his Piano Sonata: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean_Barraqu%C3%A9%27s_public_statement_about_Roger_Woodward_March_20_1973.pdf.
  113. Musicologist Richard Toop about Woodward's performance and recording of Barraque's Sonata, https://www.harmonies.com/13325-2_woodward_barraque/index.html
  114. Richter comments about Woodward's Barraqué Sonate pour piano recording: (Monsaingeon, 1998, p. 346).
  115. Eric Anther (1986). Mi-homme, mi dragon par Iannis Xenakis (PDF). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Mi_homme_mi_Dragon%22_par_Iannis_Xenakis_(Propos_recueill%C3%ADs_par_Eric_Anther).pdf in Le monde de la musique. France: Le monde and Telerama.
  116. Richter commented about Woodward's recorded performance of Xenakis' Mists and Sinaphai: C'est la première fois que j'entends de la musique de Xenakis; je suis sidéré, même si je ne suis pas certain d'avoir vraiment (ou même vraiment pas) compris cette musique. L'intuition? Mais peut-on toujours s'y fier? Que Woodward joue cette musique de façon convaincante, je l'ai maintenant compris. Il me semble que voilà effectivement de la vraie 'nouvelle' musique." (Monsaingeon, 1998, p. 342).
  117. Comments about Woodward's performance in the XXII Reims International Festival Flâneries 2011 / Xenakis à la conquête de Reims. Publié le jeudi 14 juillet 2011. https://www.flaneriesreims.com/images-78-flaneries-2011-l-xenakis-a-la-conquete-de-reims-flaneries-musicales-de-reims.html https://www.flaneriesreims.com/pdf-76-union-xenakis-a-la-conquete-de-reims-flaneries-musicales-de-reims.html.
  118. Bussotti 1973.
  119. Bussotti 1974.
  120. BBC Proms 23 (13 August 1972) program: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/emw5v2.
  121. In the early 1980s, British composer and music critic Adrian Jack was Director of the MusICA concert series at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. On Sunday October 4, 1981, the Australian pianist Roger Woodward played the London premiere of Mists by Iannis Xenakis, followed by the world premiere of Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories. Recalling the night of the premiere, Jack writes: "That night it poured, and the rain on the tin roof of the ICA theatre was almost louder than the music. Feldman was present and sat next to Harrison Birtwistle. He kissed Roger's fingers after the performance!" Feldman himself commented on Woodward's performance of Triadic Memories: "Roger Woodward: more traditional, which also means more unpredictable in how he shapes and paces. I would call it a prose style. Where Tudor focused on a moment, Woodward would find the quintessential touch of the work, hold on to it and then as in one giant breath, articulate the music's overall scale. Like Tudor, Woodward played everything as primary material. He is a long-distance runner. Tudor jumps high over the bar. Where Tudor isolates the moment, by not being influenced by what we might consider a composition's cause and effect, and Woodward finds the right tone that savours the moment and extends it." (Feldman, 2001) Jack, Adrian (15 May 2022). "The Premiere of Triadic Memories". Morton Feldman web page.
  122. Boyd 2021.
  123. Interview between Tōru Takemitsu and Dominic Gill, British critic and writer quoted by the Decca Record Company Limited, Headline Series HEAD 4, 1974. Toru Takemitsu (1974), Booklet of Corona (London Version), For Away, Piano Distance, Undisturbed Rest LP, Decca.
  124. See also Peter Burt, The Music of Tōru Takemitsu (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp.128-31.
  125. Tom Service wrote of Woodward's recording of the Jean Barraqué's Piano Sonata, interview for the BBC in Music Matters program https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b06k8x4d.
  126. Dominy Clements wrote in Musicweb International about Roger Woodward's Well-Tempered Clavier recording, http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2010/Mar10/Bach_Woodward_199225.htm
  127. Reinhard J. Brembeck wrote about Roger Woodward's recording of the complete Well-Tempered Clavier the article Shiva meets Bach in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich, 17 April 2010): "These recordings resulted in four-and-a-half stellar hours of the Bach discography. Because Woodward approaches the two cycles fluently and briskly as one unified work, because, as a graduate of the avant-garde he doesn't need to shy away from any technical challenge, because he knows how to courageously take full advantage of the possibilities of the modern grand piano, because he relies less on interpretation than on fiercely incendiary presentation, Woodward removes anything historical, elitist or alienating from this music; he understands Bach as a contemporary of innovators such as Xenakis, Cage, Feldman, and Ligeti. No looking back, no nostalgia, no more educational high-browism, no more old Europe. Never before did Johann Sebastian have such a future ahead of him".
  128. Andy Gill wrote in The Independent (London, UK, 19 March 2010).
  129. Cecilia Bazile's comments about Woodward's performance in the XXII Reims International Festival Flâneries / Remarquable Roger Woodward! Publié le jeudi 07 juillet 2011 https://www.flaneriesreims.com/pdf-53-union-remarquable-roger-woodward-flaneries-musicales-de-reims.html English version: http://www.rogerwoodward.com/index.php/home/more/xxii_reims_international_festival_bach_june_2011_REVIEW//.
  130. Lopez, Sergio Raul (14 October 2001). "Roger woodward: La reinterpretacion novedosa de los clasicos". Reforma. ProQuest 310698831. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  131. 1979 program of the complete Beethoven cycle: London Diary for February, The Musical Times, vol. 120, no. 1631, pp. 93–96.
  132. Dominy Clements' review of Woodward's recording of Debussy's Préludes (recording of the month in March 2010), http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2010/Mar10/Debussy_Woodward_132792.htm.
  133. Jade Godart's comments about Woodward's performance in the XXII Reims International Festival Review Concert n°57 du 08/07/2011: Roger Woodward, la perfection du bout des doigts Publié le lundi 04 juillet 2011 à 07H37 https://www.flaneriesreims.com/a-47-roger-woodward-flaneries-musicales-de-reims.html English version: http://www.rogerwoodward.com/index.php/home/more/xxii_reims_international_festival_-_debussy_bach/.
  134. Andy Gill wrote in The Independent (March 26, 2010) about Woodward recording of Debussy's Preludes, Books 1 and 2, https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/reviews/album-roger-woodward-debussy-preludes-books-1-2-celestial-harmonies-1927869.html.
  135. Gramophone's review of the Scriabin Piano Works CD: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/scriabin-piano-works-7.
  136. The Playful Assembler of Sounds Roger Woodward discovers a different Shostakovich Reinhard J. Brembeck's review of the Woodward's Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues recording, available in https://www.harmonies.com/pdf/Woodward%20SZ%20Shostakovich%20english.pdf.
  137. Robert Greenberg review about Woodward's recording of Bach's and Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues, https://robertgreenbergmusic.com/dr-bob-prescribes-the-well-tempered-clavier-and-shostakovichs-preludes-and-fugues/.
  138. Dominy Clements wrote in Musicweb International about Roger Woodward's Dmitri Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op.87 recording, http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2010/oct10/shostakovich_woodward_143022.htm
  139. The award was shared with Patricia Ludgate and Jędrzej and Josie Wierbicki following the April 1981 Brixton riots in south London. 2 Citations—(a) Patricia Ludgate, Butterflies of a Brief Summer, MoshPit Publishing, 2016, Kindle, Location 3608-21; (b) Leslie George Scarman, Baron Scarman, The Brixton Disorders 10–12 April 1981: Report of an Enquiry (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982).
  140. Kingdom of Bréifne; Former orders, decorations and medals of Ireland/Wikipedia; papers of Roger Woodward–National Library of Australia.
  141. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_to_culture.
  142. humanities.org.au.
  143. Dominy Clements wrote in MusicWeb International about Woodward's Dmitri Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op.87, recording: "This remarkable recording stands alone as a landmark." Complete article at http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2010/oct10/shostakovich_woodward_143022.htm
  144. Dominy Clements wrote in June 2013 about Woodward's recording of Prokofiev's works (Sergei Prokofiev Works for Piano: 1908-1938 Celestial Harmonies 13292-2) in MusicWeb International, http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2013/June13/Prokofiev_piano_132922.htm.
  145. "Xenakis Studies: In Memoriam," Contemporary Music Review, Vol. 21, Nos. 2/3, pp. 109–120.
  146. Roger Woodward, Beyond Black and White 2014.
  147. "Conquering Goliath: Preparing and Performing Xenakis' 'Keqrops'" in Performing Xenakis, ed. Sharon Kanach, Xenakis Series No. 2 2010.
  148. "Sitsky's Keyboard Music: Si Yeoo Ki," in Australian Piano Music of the Twentieth Century, ed. Larry Sitsky (2005), pp. 173–215.
  149. "Two Cadenzas for the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, KV 503, and Allegro con brio of the Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 2012.
  150. Asmira became a concert violinist and recording artist based in New York, who toured widely and pioneered chamber orchestra and chamber trio projects before marrying and settling with her family in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney.



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