Pianist Stephen Hough awarded knighthood

Pianist, composer and writer Stephen Hough CBE has been awarded a Knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honour's List 2022 for his Services to Music.

The first British-born classical pianist to be knighted since 1977, Hough was made a CBE in 2014 and has won many accolades including eight Gramophone Awards. In the upcoming 2022-23 season he is scheduled to perform 90 concerts and his song cycle Songs of Love and Loss, co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall, New York’s 92nd Street Y and Tippet Rise Arts Centre in Montana, will receive its world premiere.

Hough grew up in Cheshire, North West England and attended Chetham's School of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music and the Juilliard School in New York. As a composer, he has been commissioned by organisations including Westminster Abbey and Cathedral, London’s National Gallery, Musée du Louvre, the Cliburn Foundation, the Takács Quartet and the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet.

As a soloist, he has appeared regularly with leading orchestras and has completed 29 Proms performances to date. Most recently, Hough has been recognised in a mural (pictured below) which he unveiled last month at the newly opened C. Bechstein Centre Manchester.

You can find out more about Stephen Hough here.