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An active and ever-growing repertoire that encompasses such composers as Beethoven, Berg, Brahms, Debussy, Schubert and Stravinsky reinforces pianist Nicolas Hodges’ superior prowess in contemporary music. As Tempo magazine has written: “Hodges is a refreshing artist; he plays the classics as if they were written yesterday, and what was written yesterday as if it were already a classic.”

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Nicolas Hodges pairs Beethoven with Birtwistle on disc

In a new solo album to be released on 6 November 2020, pianist Nicolas Hodges pairs Birtwistle with Beethoven in A Bag of Bagatelles on Wergo.

The disc was recorded in November 2019 in the presence of Sir Harrison Birtwistle himself; Hodges enjoys a close relationship with the composer, who described him as “becoming like my Peter Pears”. It includes the first recordings of three works by Sir Harrison Birtwistle and originally premiered by Hodges, including the witty Dance of the metro- gnome which sets the pianist against an impish metronome, and the virtuosic Gigue Machine of 2011, with its ceaseless warp and weft driven by a musical machine whose operation defies logic. Gigue Machine won the best Instrumental Solo BASCA British Composers Award in 2013.

Nicolas Hodges releases three discs of music by Gerald Barry, Harrison Birtwistle and Helmut Lachenmann

Nicolas Hodges releases three discs of music by Gerald Barry, Harrison Birtwistle and Helmut Lachenmann, celebrating contemporary composers’ raucous diversity from metro-gnome to Marche Fatale

Pianist Nicolas Hodges performs Messiaen’s intrepid Des canyons aux étoiles at the BBC Proms

Nicolas Hodges returns to the Proms to perform Messiaen’s intrepid Des canyons aux étoiles at the BBC Proms on 28 July 2019 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo. Mark Swed (LA Times) recently described Hodges as “one of the leading performers of advanced European music ... He makes seemingly unintelligible music speak for itself ... and is a pianist with a flabbergasting technique and instantly engaging musicality.”

Nicolas Hodges releases Dusapin’s Piano Concerto: À quia, on BIS prior to the UK premiere in Glasgow of Steen-Andersen’s spectacular Piano Concerto

On 30 November, BIS releases a disc of music by Pascal Dusapin, including his ‘À quia’ piano concerto, performed by contemporary pianist Nicolas Hodges. Hodges returns regularly to the UK over the coming season, giving the UK premiere of Simon Steen-Andersen’s Piano Concerto – a multimedia spectacle featuring a video doppelgänger and prepared piano – in Glasgow on 12 January, and performing Ligeti’s Piano Concerto in the Barbican on 2 March as part of a Total Immersion day on the composer.

Rebecca Saunders awarded Roche Commission to write new piano concerto for Nicolas Hodges

On 29 August 2020, the prolific contemporary pianist Nicolas Hodges will inaugurate the world premiere performance of Rebecca Saunders’ Piano Concerto at the Lucerne Festival. Roche, in collaboration with the Lucerne Festival and the Lucerne Festival Academy, has awarded Rebecca Saunders their prestigious Roche Commission to enable her to compose a piano concerto for Hodges, who breaks new ground in 2018-19 with a series of world and UK premieres, including three premieres at the Wigmore Hall on 30 October and the UK premiere of Simon Steen-Andersen’s Piano Concerto on 12 January.