BIOGRAPHY
“Contemporary playing at its best, dynamic, risky, finding the edges of what a piano can do.”
"Alive, brilliant, exploratory... a fantastic mix of intellectual understanding and musical play."
Sarah Nicolls
Henry Lewis is 19 years old and has been studying the piano since the age of six. For the majority of this time he has been a pupil of Catherine Miller in Bristol. For the 2017/2018 year he was the recipient of the John Bigg Scholarship, which also allowed him to take lessons with Murray McLachlan in Manchester, with whom he is now continuing his studies full time at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Henry has been interested in music since a young age. Starting with the piano, he then took up the violin a year later studying with Kathryn Hardman, and subsequently became a chorister at Bristol Cathedral. Consequently Henry also has a number of choral achievements too, namely having been a member of the Diamond Choir for The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and having been a finalist in the BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the Year Competition two years running. During his time at the cathedral he also studied the organ under Mark Lee, and composition with Philip Wilby. Henry has also taken lessons in composition from the Scottish composer John Mcleod.
He has participated in many competitions over the years, including the EPTA UK Piano Competition, the Manchester International Piano Concerto Competition, and in local Eisteddfods.
Henry also has a great interest in chamber music and accompaniment, which he has had the opportunity to explore both whilst at school at QEH in Bristol and at several summer schools such as the Chetham’s International Piano Summer School, an Eton Choral Course, and regularly at Novacorda, a chamber music course for pianists and string players in Bristol.
Henry is a keen advocate for contemporary music, and as part of the 2019 Chetham's International Piano Series he performed the piano works of Adam Gorb (Head of Composition at the RNCM), in two concerts at the Stoller Hall.