Peter Donohoe

Quick Facts

Full Name	Peter Donohoe
Occupation	Pianist
Date Of Birth	Jun 18, 1953(1953-06-18)
Age	71
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Gemini

Peter Donohoe Biography

Peter Donohoe is one of the most popular and richest Pianist who was born on June 18, 1953 in England, United Kingdom. Virtuoso classical musician, who was named an Officer of the order of the British Empire in the year 2010.

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In the early years of his solo piano career, Donohoe was in demand by many UK recital series and amateur orchestras. Youth orchestras also played a big part in his activities. In 1970 he had joined the Cheshire Youth Orchestra as a percussionist, eventually becoming its percussion tutor, and also housemaster for several courses. On the first course in 1970 he had also played Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto, as well as being the orchestra’s timpanist for the rest of the program.

In 1974 he met the conductor Simon Rattle – then 19 years old and having won the John Player International Conductors’ Competition that same week. It was Rattle’s first performance of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring – a piece with which he is known to have a special affinity – and Peter Donohoe was the timpanist. This encounter was to develop across the next 25 years, going on to include several foreign orchestral tours, over 50 concerto performances in cities all over the world and many CD piano concerto recordings. The link with the CBSO and Rattle (Rattle was the CBSO’s Principal Conductor 1980–1998) brought about his performance in 2002 at Rattle’s inaugural concert as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

His family lived in Manchester at the time of his birth.

Peter Donohoe Net Worth

Peter Donohoe is one of the richest Pianist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Donohoe 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was an undergraduate of the Chetham’s School of Music and the Royal Northern College of Music.

He nearly dismembered the left-hand fingers in the year 1992, however, his hand and the rest of his life were saved by the subsequent surgery.

Peter Donohoe CBE (born 18 June 1953) is an English classical pianist.

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Peter Donohoe was born in Manchester, England and educated at Chetham’s School of Music where he studied violin, viola, clarinet and tuba. Donald Clarke recommended that Donohoe do an audition at the age of 14 at the Royal Manchester College of Music, as a result, professor Derek Wyndham insisted on taking him as his youngest student. Donohoe continued to work with Wyndham throughout the rest of his schooldays, and then went on to study music with Alexander Goehr at the University of Leeds. Later he returned to Manchester to continue working at the Royal Northern College of Music with Professor Wyndham, graduating in 1976 as BMus with first class honours in both piano and percussion as both teacher and performer.

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Peter Ranked on the list of most popular Pianist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Peter Donohoe celebrates birthday on June 18 of every year.

Donohoe exclusively signed with EMI Records in 1988, beginning a relationship that lasted until 1993, producing a major collection of CDs. These recordings tend largely towards 20th century composers such as Olivier Messiaen, Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Alban Berg, George Gershwin, Benjamin Britten and Sergei Rachmaninoff. He preferred to wait until later in life before recording music by romantic and particularly classical composers, making exceptions, however, for music by Franz Liszt, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Frédéric Chopin, Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven. His recording of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2 won the Gramophone Magazine Concerto Recording of the year in 1988, and his recording of Liszt’s Sonata in B minor won the Grand Prix du Disque in 1993. Since then he has made many recordings on a freelance basis with Deutsche Grammophon, Hyperion, Chandos, BMG, Warner and Naxos. In the latter case, a series of recordings devoted to British works for piano and orchestra was inaugurated in 2001, growing to a catalogue of 14 works.