Stephen Hough

Quick Facts

Full Name	Stephen Hough
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Nov 22, 1961(1961-11-22)
Age	63
Birthplace	Heswall
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Scorpio

Stephen Hough Biography

Stephen Hough is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on November 22, 1961 in Heswall, England, United Kingdom. His father was as an only child in Mayfield which is a suburb in Newcastle, New South Wales in 1926. Prior to his first birthday, his mother brought Hough to England to settle in the North after which she left her husband in Australia. He was constantly told that his father had passed away however the father lived another 30 years working within the industry of steel in Newcastle. The grandfather of Hough’s father wrote him letters, but none Hough ever received.

The recording of his five Saint-Saens concertos was awarded an award called the Gramophone Record of the Year in 2001. It was then named to be the Gold Disc, “winner of winners” in an election that marked 30 years of the honor.

He has written about his homosexuality and its relationship with both his music-making and his religion. For some 15 years, following his Catholic vocation, he lived a life of celibacy. In 2007 he published The Bible as Prayer: a handbook for lectio divina. ‘Nosing Around’, his little book on perfume, was published in 2014 In 2018 Sylph Editions published his first novel ‘The Final Retreat’ which explores the inner world of a priest dealing with sex addiction and religious despair. His book ‘Rough Ideas: reflections on music and more’ is a collection of essays and short musings and was published by Faber & Faber in 2019.

Hough holds a master’s degree from the Juilliard School where his studies were assisted by the receipt of the first ever Royal Philharmonic Society Julius Isserlis Scholarship for study abroad. He has studied with Heather Slade- Lipkin, Gordon Green, and Derrick Wyndham. A prominent soloist, he is also a composer and transcriber, and often includes his own works in his recitals. He has written over 30 published pieces. The premiere of his cello concerto, written for Steven Isserlis, took place in March 2007, and in the summer of the same year Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral performed masses he wrote for them. In 2009, his trio for piccolo, contrabassoon and piano (‘Was mit den Traenen geschieht’) was premiered at the Philharmonie in Berlin by members of the Berlin Philharmonic. His song cycles ‘Herbstlieder’ (2007) and ‘Other Love Songs’ (2010) and ‘Dappled Things’ (2016) were premiered by members of The Prince Consort. His ‘Sonata for Piano (broken branches)’ was premiered by himself at the Wigmore Hall in 2011. In 2012 the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Choir gave the world premiere of the orchestrated version of his Missa Mirabilis. This work was recorded in 2015 by the Colorado Symphony and Andrew Litton for Hyperion Records. He has written four sonatas for solo piano.

Stephen Hough says his assumption of Australian citizenship was partly an ode to his father, who wished for his return back to the country that he was born in, but could not until his death in the year the year 1980, at 54.

Stephen Hough Net Worth

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

Stephen Andrew Gill Hough, CBE (“‘h’ F born on the 22nd of November in 1961) is a British classical musician, composer, and writer. He was made an Australian citizen in 2005 and therefore is a dual citizen (his father was born and raised in Australia in 1926.).

Hough was born in Heswall (then in Cheshire) in Cheshire, which was then on the Wirral Peninsula, and grew up in Thelwall in Cheshire, where he started piano lessons at five. His father, born in Australia worked as an official representative of technical issues of British Steel before his death at the age of 54. When he was a young age, Hough was able to learn approximately 100 nursery rhymes after much pressure parents, they agreed to purchase a second hand piano for PS5 from an antique shop in the local area to be used in the home. When he was 12 Hough suffered from what he described as an “mini-nervous breakdown”, triggered by a mugging incident that led to him being forced to take nearly a whole year off from school. He was a student at the Chetham School of Music, which was later described by him to be “not a wonderful place while I was there”, and also at the Royal Northern College of Music. In 1978 He was a finalist at the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition and was awarded the section for piano. In 1982, he won the Terence Judd Award in England. He also was awarded the first prize in the Naumburg International Piano Competition in New York City.

He became the first classical music performer to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, joining prominent writers and scientists who have made significant contributions in their fields. In 2009 he was named by The Economist and Intelligent Life magazines as one of twenty living polymaths. In 2010 he was named Instrumentalist of the Year at the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards. He was a Governor of the Royal Ballet Companies (The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Royal Ballet School). He is a patron of the charity The Nightingale Project, which takes music and art into hospitals and of Music in Prisons (Irene Taylor Trust). He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to music. He was made an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple in 2017. In 2018 he was made an honorary member of the Royal Philharmonic Society. From 2019 he will be a Visiting Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford for three years.

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In October 2016 Hough was the guest for BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. His choices were Cortot’s recording of Prélude No. 17 in A-flat by Chopin, Rachmaninoff’s recording of “Liebesleid” by Kreisler, “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin, “Kyrie eleison” from the Mass in B minor by Bach, “Lyric Suite for String Quartet” (3rd movement) by Berg, Sonata for cello and piano left hand (“Les adieux”) by Stephen Hough, and “Bird Songs at Eventide” by Eric Coates. His favourite was “Proficiscere, anima Christiana (Go Forth)” from The Dream of Gerontius by Elgar. His book choice was a bilingual edition of Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu and his luxury item was a panama hat. He made a special request for a copy of the Tyndale Bible.

Facts & Trivia

Stephen Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Stephen Hough celebrates birthday on November 22 of every year.

Is Stephen Hough good?

Named by The Economist as one of 20 Living Polymaths, British pianist Stephen Hough is a true renaissance man – a leading concert pianist, writer, composer and painter. He has won global acclaim for his outstanding interpretations of the piano repertoire.

Where was Stephen Hough born?

Heswall, United Kingdom

When was Stephen Hough born?

November 22, 1961 (age 60 years)

Where is Stephen Hough?

Hough resides in London where he is a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music and holds the International Chair of Piano Studies at his alma mater, the Royal Northern College in Manchester.

How do you say the word pianist?

A: The word “pianist” has been pronounced both PEE-a-nist and pee-A-nist since the 19th century. Today, American dictionaries include both pee-A-nist and PEE-a-nist as standard pronunciations, while British dictionaries list only PEE-a-nist.