Simon Crawford-Phillips & Philip Moore piano duo

Fellowship Winner 2004

Simon Crawford-Phillips and Philip Moore have been playing together as a piano duo since 1995, when they met as students of Hamish Milne at the Royal Academy of Music. During their studies they won 1st prize at the 1997 International Schubert Competition in the Czech Republic, 2nd prize at the 1998 Tokyo International Piano Duo Competition and the 1999 Royal Overseas League Rio Tinto Ensemble Prize. The duo were selected for representation by Young Concert Artists Trust in London from 2001 to 2006. Over recent years the Duo has given recitals at major festivals such as Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Brighton and Bath, and at venues including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Barbican (with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields), The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, St. John's, Smith Square, Sadler's Wells Theatre and Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. They have made frequent appearances as concerto artists and recitalists at the South Bank and Wigmore Hall. Regular performers on BBC Radio 3, they made their Proms debut in 2001, and have recorded on the Deux-Elles label to critical acclaim. Their latest disc of Stravinsky was released in 2006. In March 2008 the Duo will give the premiere of a new Two Piano Concerto by German composer Detlev Glanert, co-commissioned by the Duo with funds from the BB Trust and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Future engagements include concerts in Germany, Italy and the UK. Simon Crawford-Phillips and Philip Moore were appointed Steinway Artists in 2004.