A recital by one of Owen's students premiered on 22/06/20
Qianyu Zhang - Leeds International Organ Festival - Live
PROGRAMME:
Sonata No. 3 - Vladislav Zolotaryov
Tears - Bent Lorentzen
A Child's Scherzo - Modest Mussorgsky
Suite in the Old Style - Alfred Schnittke
Rhythm of Doubt, Part III - Mikołaj Majkusiak
Adagio and Rondo for Glass Harmonica, K617 - W. A. Mozart
Le Grand Tango - Astor Piazzolla
Invierno Porteño - Astor Piazzolla
ENJOY!
The Royal Academy of Music has created a lovely page for the Accordion Depatment,
the image below - (please click on it) - links to the Accordion Department page
for further information.
Owen Murray is Professor of accordion and head of the accordion department at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He was appointed in 1986, and in 1993 Owen was awarded the Academy's highest honour,, Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon.RAM), in recognition of his work in developing a world renowned accordion department and for his success on the concert platform.
Student Success
Student successes in competitions involving all instruments and voice have included the Derek Butler London Prize (contested by students from all four of the London conservatories); Royal Over-Seas League; Friends of the RAM Wigmore Award; RAM Club Prize; Park Lane Contemporary Music Concert Series. Accordion only competitions: Klingenthal; Arrasate; Castelfidardo; Coupe Mondiale.
Past and present students include:
Owen is awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy
of Music (Hon.RAM), the Academy's highest honour. Enlarge (+)
James Crabb - David Preston - David Farmer - Neil Varley - Milos Milivojevic - Borut Zagoranski - Ksenija Siderova - Ian Watson - Rafal Luc - Phuong Nguyen - Amadej Herzog - Trang Nguyen - Martynas Levicikis - Yao Yi.
A photo of Owen with students, Amadej Herzog, Milos Milivojevic, Ksenija Siderova,
Martynas Levickis, Rafal Luc, Trang Nguyen.
For information about Academy entrance audition requirements, please e-mail - o.murray@ram.ac.uk - or telephone the accordion department administrator, Karen Ingram, on +44 (0)207 873 7380 (Course information on the RAM website is found here)
For private tuition, consultation lessons, coaching for competitions, grade examinations, and auditions, please email - o.murray@ram.ac.uk - or call +44 (0) 7810 481384
