Peter Hill, Lynda Russell

Peter Hill is a pianist well known for his playing in difficult modern works and Bach, and for his interest in East Asian music, as well as for his scholarly writing. He studied music at Oxford, then attended the Royal College of Music in London studying classical repertory with Cyril Smith. He also studied with the famous French teacher Nadia Boulanger, which sharpened his already strong interest in contemporary classical music. In 1974 he won first prize at a competition in Darmstadt (considered the capital of European avant-garde music at the time). He became a Jubilee F...