John Gough enjoys a busy and varied career as a solo pianist, chamber music player, accompanist, teacher and adjudicator. Engagements have taken him all over the British Isles, including several recitals at Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and St Martins in the Field, London and Carnegie Hall, New York. He has also toured Denmark and broadcast on Danish Radio.

As soloist, he has appeared with the Royal Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Northern Chamber Orchestras under such conductors as Sir Neville Marriner, Guy Woolfenden, Clark Rundell, Timothy Reynish and Edward Warren. As a broadcaster, he has regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 3, including a live recital from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, Radio 2, BBC TV, S4C and Classic FM. He has given first broadcast performances of music by Frank Bridge as well as live broadcasts of the complete piano quartets of Brahms, Dvorak and Faure and premiered works by Anthony Gilbert and Bill Connor.

John Gough studied on an Associated Board Scholarship at the Royal Northern College of Music from where he graduated with a First Class Honours Degree and the coveted Professional Performance Diploma with Distinction in the same year, being the first pianist to do so. He won the John Ireland Centenary Piano Competition at the Wigmore Hall leading to many broadcasts of piano music by the composer and a recital at the Bowdon Festival, (Ireland’s birthplace) at the invitation of the music critic Gerald Larner. He has also appeared in the Buxton and Chester Summer Festivals.

John has worked in concert with Jack Brymer, Janet Hilton, Martin Roscoe and Jane Irwin. He has a great interest in accompanying singers and has recorded a CD of English Song with the tenor Gordon Pullin

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