Rosemary Tuck is an Australian-British concert pianist and recording artist.[1] She has researched and performed significant world premiere recordings, including the complete concerti and concertinos of Carl Czerny.[2]
Career
editBorn in Sydney, Rosemary Tuck studied in Canberra with John Winther, at the Peabody Institute, Baltimore with Walter Hautzig and in London with Andrzej Esterhazy, himself a pupil of Heinrich Neuhaus in Moscow. Since representing Australia in a series of concerts in America under the auspices of the Australian-American Bicentennial Foundation she has performed world-wide, including international festivals such as the Aarhus Festuge, the Wexford Festival, Liszt en Provence and Vendsyssel Festival. She has appeared as soloist with the Southbank Sinfonia, the English Chamber Orchestra, the ABC Sinfonia and the Orchestra of the City in London.[3]
Tuck has given concert performances at Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House, the South Bank Centre in London, National Concert Hall in Dublin and at the Aarhus Musikhuset in Denmark in the presence of Queen Margrethe II.[4][5]
In 2001 she gave the first official performance in the William Vincent Wallace Millennium Plaza in Waterford, Ireland.[6][7] Wallace is a composer she has championed widely, and this has included concerts in Dublin for his bicentennial year,[8] and at the Liszt en Provence Festival, marking the 150th year of Wallace's death in the Pyrenees, France.[9] Of her performances Gramophone Magazine noted: "Perhaps most striking is the dazzling Grande Fantasie La Cracovienne, composed for New Orleans in 1842. Strongly evoking Gottschalk, it has become almost as much Miss Tuck’s calling card as it was Wallace’s."[10] Her Naxos CD Chopinesque was a Gramophone Critics Choice of the Year (2012).[11]
Tuck has worked closely with Richard Bonynge, AC, CBE, both as soloist with orchestra and collaborative pianist[12] since a concert in London in 2004 of music by William Vincent Wallace titled "A Concert for Sir Richard Bourke", for the Tait Memorial Trust.[13][14]
In 2020 she was Artistic Director and soloist for Bonynge's 90th Birthday Gala.[15][16]
Her recordings include many world premiere performances, and she has championed the composers Lyadov (for Barrington-Coupes Concert Artist label), Ketèlbey,[17] William Vincent Wallace,[18] and Carl Czerny's works for piano and orchestra with the English Chamber Orchestra under Richard Bonynge for Naxos,[19] four of which reached the UK Specialist Classical Charts.[20][21] The penultimate disc in the series, featuring Czerny's Second Grand Concerto, was a Musicweb International Recording of the Year 2020[22]
Naxos reissued a compilation album of her Marco Polo Ketelbey recordings in 2021. Titled A Dream Picture, it was Scala Radio's Album of the Week in July that year.[23]
During 2021 she commissioned a piano concerto from Australian composer Andrew Schultz drawing on an earlier uncompleted work by Richard Meale, with assistance from the Australian Music Foundation.[24]
She has been on the committee of the Tait Memorial Trust since 2004, assisting young Australian and New Zealand Artists.[25]
Recordings
editCarl Czerny: Concertinos Opp. 78 and 650 ECO/Richard Bonynge – Naxos 8.574458
Ketelbey: A Dream Picture – Naxos 8.574299 1995/2021
Carl Czerny: Second Grand Concerto in E flat major ECO/Richard Bonynge – Naxos 8.573998 2019
Carl Czerny: Piano Concerto in D minor ECO/Richard Bonynge - Naxos 8.573688 2017
Carl Czerny: Grand Concerto in A minor ECO/Richard Bonynge -Naxos 8.573417 2016
Carl Czerny: Bel Canto Concertante Naxos ECO/Richard Bonynge – Naxos 8.573254 2015
William Vincent Wallace: Chopinesque - Naxos 8.572776 2012
William Vincent Wallace: Celtic Fantasies – Naxos 8.572775 2012
William Vincent Wallace: Opera Fantasies and Paraphrases – Naxos 8.572774 2011
William Vincent Wallace: To My Star – Cala 88044 2005
William Vincent Wallace: The Meeting of the Waters – Cala 88042 2002
Albert Ketelbey: Piano Music Vol. 2 – Marco Polo 8.223700 1995
Albert Ketelbey: Piano Music Vol. 1 – Marco Polo 8.223699 1995
Lyadov: Lyadov Recital (Vol.2) – Concert Artist 9001 (1990)
Lyadov: Lyadov Recital (Vol.1) – Concert Artist FED4-TC-070 (1989)
Publications
editBackstage With Rosemary Tuck – Limelight Magazine, 29 November 2019
In The Mystical Land of Oz – Limelight Magazine, 9 July 2021
The Lost Emperor: Rhinegold - 24 October 2019, archived 27 June 2022
CD booklet notes for the Naxos releases 8. 573417, 8.573688, 8.573998, 8.574458
References
edit- ^ "Malcolm Tapscott: The pitfalls of Winning". The Canberra Times. 1994-06-07.
- ^ "Naxos Feature: Carl Czerny works for piano and orchestra".
- ^ "Blair Sanderson: Rosemary Tuck Biography – All Music".
- ^ "Rosemary Tuck". Steinway Artist Biography.
- ^ Steen Ancher: Det Bedste of Flere Verdener, Midtjyllands Avis, September 5, 2003
- ^ The Munster Express, Arts and Entertainment, Piano Recital at Wallace Plaza, August 10, 2001
- ^ "William Vincent Wallace Bicentenary Festival (National Concert Hall Dublin, 15 October 2012)".
- ^ Raymond Walker (October 2012). "Ireland Commemorates Wallace Bicentenary – Seen and Heard International".
- ^ "Le 150e Anniversaire de la mort de William Vincent Wallace". Le Dauphine Libere.
- ^ Andrew Lamb (December 2012). "W V Wallace". Gramophone Magazine. p. 57.
- ^ Gramophone Magazine: Critic's Choice 2012 – December 2012, p. 40
- ^ David Mellor, Sheer Joy for Just a Few Notes, Daily Mail on Sunday, 14 August 2011
- ^ Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, History, Politics and Culture, David Grant, William Vincent Wallace and Music in Australia 1835-8 (Chapter 5), Irish Academic Press, 2008
- ^ "Tait Memorial Trust past events 1992-2008".
- ^ Jo Litson (28 September 2020). "Birthday Gala for Richard Bonynge". Limelight Magazine.
- ^ "Richard Bonynge 90th Birthday Gala". Australian Music Foundation.
- ^ Nicholas Soames, The Story of Naxos, Piatkus 2012, p.290
- ^ "Music in Australia: Australian Classical Musicians Successful Abroad at a High Level".
- ^ "Michael Church – Czerny Piano Concertinos". BBC Music Magazine. 11 July 2023.
- ^ "UK Specialist charts".
- ^ "Rosemary Tuck Releases CD on the Naxos Label". Peabody Magazine. 3 October 2015.
- ^ "Musicweb International recordings of the year 2020" (PDF).
- ^ Dan Adams (Autumn 2021). "Ketelbey: A Dream Picture". British Light Music Society Magazine.
- ^ "Shultz Piano Concerto Op. 114". Australian Music Centre.
- ^ "Tait Trust Committee".
External links
edit- Rosemary Tuck | Classical Pianist | Home Official website: www.rosemarytuck.com
- Recordings by Rosemary Tuck | Now available to stream and purchase at Naxos Naxos
- Rosemary Tuck - Steinway & Sons Steinway Artist