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Bryce Morrison is an internationally celebrated teacher, writer and broadcaster and is considered among the world's formost authorities on piano performance.
A student of Ronald Smith, Iso Elinson and Alexander Uninsky he has published extensively in all the major British newspapers (The Times, Telegraph, Observer, Sunday Times etc) and in virtually all the music magazines, most notably the Gramophone where he has been a major contributor for many years.
His books include a highly praised biography of Liszt with a forward written by Jorge Bolet.
He has been a jury member of over forty international piano competitions chairing the Scottish International, Naumburg and International Terence Judd Award where his colleagues have included Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jorge Bolet and Lazar Berman and his four hundred or so annotations for DG, EMl, Decca, Philips, Sony etc include portraits of most of the world's great pianists and 'In Memory of Terence Judd' and 'The Art of Eileen Joyce.'
He has also interviewed most of of the world's leading pianists including Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubinstein and Claudio Arrau.
He has broadcast and given master-classes world-wide and his students have appeared in the world's leading concert halls to great critical acclaim.
During 1999 he gave a marathon six lectures, seven master-classes and chaired an international piano competition in the space of two weeks at New York's Mannes School of Music before working as a guest professor in Santa Barbara at the University of California.
He held the Corina Frada Pick Professorship of Advanced Piano Studies at the Ravinia Institutue in Chicago and he is at present a professor at London's Royal Academy of Music,a guest professor at the Birmingham Conservatory of Music and a visiting professor at the Conservatory for Young Artists in Dallas, Texas.
He holds six degrees in music and literature and was recently awarded an Hon ARAM.
This year he will be lecturing and giving master-classes in Italy, South Africa and Korea and will be teaching at the Juilliard, Manhatton and Mannes Schools of Music in New York
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