WILLIAM PEART (b. 1996) is a versatile musician: an organist and early keyboardist, who maintains an active freelance career as a concert performer and accompanist that takes him across the world, performing on both historic and modern instruments.
He is frequently engaged as a concert performer, equally at home as a soloist, ensemble player or accompanist: highlights include appearances at Birmingham (St. Chad's and St. Philip's), Blackburn, Durham, Exeter, Gloucester, Lichfield, Truro, Winchester and Worcester Cathedrals (UK); Bath and Tewkesbury Abbeys, Town and Symphony Halls, Birmingham, St John's Smith Square, London, St George's Hanover Square, London, and the University of St Andrews (Scotland), in addition to important venues in Paris (FR), Amsterdam (NL), Ottawa (CA), as well as Berlin, Brandenburg, Freiberg, Leipzig and Naumburg (DE).
William enjoys playing an extensive and eclectic repertory that spans many centuries, and his career has included many performances of concerto repertoire on both historic and modern instruments. He has performed in masterclasses taken by many of the world's leading performers, including Nathan Laube, Pieter van Dijk, Ulrich Walther, Erwan Le Prado and Thomas Trotter. In recent years, William has been occupied with substantial performance projects: those recently completed and upcoming include surveys of the complete organ works of Maurice Duruflé (2020), César Franck (2022), Franz Liszt and Julius Reubke (2023), as well as Olivier Messiaen (2027).
William is in great demand as a harpsichordist & continuo player, and appears regularly in concert with many period instrumentalists and ensembles in a wide-ranging repertoire. He is a founding member and the Principal Keyboardist of the award-winning trio and baroque ensemble, Ensemble La Notte, with whom he maintains an active concert schedule in high-profile venues. The group has recorded extensively for commercial release, as well as for BBC Radio 3 and the BBC Proms. William also plays regularly for the Central England Camerata, whilst upholding many freelance engagements across the UK.
William graduated with first-class honours, and as a multiple prizewinner, from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (UK). Whilst there, he accompanied the critically-acclaimed Chamber Choir, and completed a programme of study at the Musikhochschule in Leipzig, generously supported by the Erasmus+ scheme. Important teachers and influences include Thomas Corns, Henry Fairs and Martin Schmeding (organ literature); Alexander Mason and Daniel Beilschmidt (improvisation); Robin Bigwood (harpsichord), as well as Paul Spicer (choral conducting).
Prior to moving to Birmingham, William spent a year as Organ Scholar at Gloucester Cathedral, where he accompanied and conducted the Cathedral Choirs regularly, performed at the Three Choirs Festival and assisted with the Cathedral's extensive choral outreach programme. He has also held Organ Scholar and Assistant Director of Music positions at Collegiate Churches in Warwick and Wolverhampton respectively.
William currently resides in Germany, where he studies at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, on a scholarship from the DAAD Foundation, in the classes of Prof. Henry Fairs (organ) and Raphael Alpermann (harpsichord).
He is frequently engaged as a concert performer, equally at home as a soloist, ensemble player or accompanist: highlights include appearances at Birmingham (St. Chad's and St. Philip's), Blackburn, Durham, Exeter, Gloucester, Lichfield, Truro, Winchester and Worcester Cathedrals (UK); Bath and Tewkesbury Abbeys, Town and Symphony Halls, Birmingham, St John's Smith Square, London, St George's Hanover Square, London, and the University of St Andrews (Scotland), in addition to important venues in Paris (FR), Amsterdam (NL), Ottawa (CA), as well as Berlin, Brandenburg, Freiberg, Leipzig and Naumburg (DE).
William enjoys playing an extensive and eclectic repertory that spans many centuries, and his career has included many performances of concerto repertoire on both historic and modern instruments. He has performed in masterclasses taken by many of the world's leading performers, including Nathan Laube, Pieter van Dijk, Ulrich Walther, Erwan Le Prado and Thomas Trotter. In recent years, William has been occupied with substantial performance projects: those recently completed and upcoming include surveys of the complete organ works of Maurice Duruflé (2020), César Franck (2022), Franz Liszt and Julius Reubke (2023), as well as Olivier Messiaen (2027).
William is in great demand as a harpsichordist & continuo player, and appears regularly in concert with many period instrumentalists and ensembles in a wide-ranging repertoire. He is a founding member and the Principal Keyboardist of the award-winning trio and baroque ensemble, Ensemble La Notte, with whom he maintains an active concert schedule in high-profile venues. The group has recorded extensively for commercial release, as well as for BBC Radio 3 and the BBC Proms. William also plays regularly for the Central England Camerata, whilst upholding many freelance engagements across the UK.
William graduated with first-class honours, and as a multiple prizewinner, from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (UK). Whilst there, he accompanied the critically-acclaimed Chamber Choir, and completed a programme of study at the Musikhochschule in Leipzig, generously supported by the Erasmus+ scheme. Important teachers and influences include Thomas Corns, Henry Fairs and Martin Schmeding (organ literature); Alexander Mason and Daniel Beilschmidt (improvisation); Robin Bigwood (harpsichord), as well as Paul Spicer (choral conducting).
Prior to moving to Birmingham, William spent a year as Organ Scholar at Gloucester Cathedral, where he accompanied and conducted the Cathedral Choirs regularly, performed at the Three Choirs Festival and assisted with the Cathedral's extensive choral outreach programme. He has also held Organ Scholar and Assistant Director of Music positions at Collegiate Churches in Warwick and Wolverhampton respectively.
William currently resides in Germany, where he studies at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, on a scholarship from the DAAD Foundation, in the classes of Prof. Henry Fairs (organ) and Raphael Alpermann (harpsichord).
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