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Kenneth Hamilton
Kenneth Hamilton (born 1963) is a Scottishpianist and writer, known for virtuoso performances of Romantic music, especially Liszt, Alkan and Busoni. Hamilton's playing is characterized by spontaneity, technical assurance, and a wide variety of keyboard colour. He was a student of Alexa Maxwell, Lawrence Glover and the Scottish composer-pianist Ronald Stevenson, whose music he champions.[1]
Hamilton lectures on music. He was awarded a doctorate for a dissertation on the music of Liszt by Balliol College, Oxford, where his supervisor was John Warrack.[2] He is the author of Liszt: Sonata in B-minor (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Liszt (Cambridge University Press, 2005). His widely publicised latest book, After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and ModernPerformance (Oxford University Press, 2008) discusses the differences between the past and the present in concert life and playing styles. Its conclusions have stimulated extensive debate in the musical world.[3]
Early Life
[edit]Hamilton was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1963. He attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where his piano teachers were Alexa Maxwell and Lawrence Glover. He later benefitted f
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Ken Hamilton was born of Irish missionary parents in 1956 in the mining town of Jos, Nigeria. He received his early education at boarding school until the age of eleven, when his parents decided to transport the family back to Belfast, Northern Ireland. Belfast in the 1960s was a city balancing between a gritty industrial past and an uncertain political future. From its shipyards at Harland & Wolff, the great ocean liner Titanic had been launched. It was also a city on the brink of serious social unrest. Against this backdrop, the young Ken Hamilton completed his secondary education, and in 1975 enrolled at the College of Art and Design, Belfast.
As sometimes falls to a student of singular vision, the academic milieu of the college seemed not to provide direction for the pursuit of goals that mattered to him. The techniques of the great masters that he hoped to learn were not appreciated, and so the young Hamilton decided to change course. In 1977 he moved to the British mainland, and started studying horticulture and landscape design at Merrist Wood College in Surrey. For the next several years, he worked as a landscape designer, a profession that supported his love of nature