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Jack Gibbons (born 1962) is an English classical pianist and composer. He performs music from a wide repertoire, but has especially championed the music of Frédéric Chopin, Charles-Valentin Alkan and George Gershwin.
Jack Gibbons has established a reputation an interpreter of the piano music of George Gershwin, whose original recorded improvisations he has reconstructed note-for-note and performed throughout the world. He regularly performs at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, where he has appeared annually for the last 16 years. In 2002 he won special praise for having fought his way back from a near-fatal car accident to perform once again to a capacity crowd at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the British press describing his achievement as “miraculous” and “gutsy”, and the BBC hailing him as “THE Gershwin pianist of our time”.
Jack Gibbons began performing in public at the age of 10. He made his London debut in 1979, at the age of 17, with an all-Alkan concert that included Alkan’s legendary Concerto for solo piano in the programme. At 20 he won First Prize in the Newport International Pianoforte Competition, his performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto being described by the jury as “masterly”. He gave his Queen Elizabeth Hall debut in 1984 playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Chopin’s Funeral March Sonata and Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, on which occasion The Times described him as “Britain’s answer to Ivo Pogorelich”.
Jack Gibbons has established a reputation an interpreter of the piano music of George Gershwin, whose original recorded improvisations he has reconstructed note-for-note and performed throughout the world. He regularly performs at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, where he has appeared annually for the last 16 years. In 2002 he won special praise for having fought his way back from a near-fatal car accident to perform once again to a capacity crowd at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the British press describing his achievement as “miraculous” and “gutsy”, and the BBC hailing him as “THE Gershwin pianist of our time”.
Jack Gibbons began performing in public at the age of 10. He made his London debut in 1979, at the age of 17, with an all-Alkan concert that included Alkan’s legendary Concerto for solo piano in the programme. At 20 he won First Prize in the Newport International Pianoforte Competition, his performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto being described by the jury as “masterly”. He gave his Queen Elizabeth Hall debut in 1984 playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Chopin’s Funeral March Sonata and Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, on which occasion The Times described him as “Britain’s answer to Ivo Pogorelich”.
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