Anthony Adkins, BEM – piano

The Programme

Anthony Adkins, BEM – piano

Polonaise in C# minor, Op 26 No 1

Piano Pieces, Op 76
1.Capriccio F# minor – Un poco agitato
2.Capriccio B minor – Allegretto non troppo
3. Intermezzo Ab major – Grazioso
4. Intermezzo Bb major – Allegretto grazioso
5. Capriccio C# minor – Agitato, ma non troppo presto
6. Intermezzo A major – Andante con moto
7. Intermezzo A minor – Moderato semplice
8. Capriccio C major – Grazioso ed un poco vivace

The Artist

Anthony Adkins, BEM was educated in London and won scholarships to both the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music. Accepting the latter, he studied for five years with Eric Harrison and Bernard Roberts, representing the College in foreign tours and masterclasses. He was finalist in the Chappell Gold Medal Competition.

Soon after leaving the RCM, Anthony Adkins was awarded a London début recital at Wigmore Hall. He then won the coveted Chopin Fellowship from the Polish Government enabling him to work with the eminent Professor Jan Hoffmann at the Academy of Music in Kraków. On completion of these intensive studies, Professor Hoffmann’s assessment of Anthony Adkins was profoundly simple – ‘a great artist’. Since then, he has played for innumerable important occasions and has frequently appeared at Wigmore Hall and the South Bank.

He has toured the UK extensively and engagements abroad have included Austria, France, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, Poland, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland and the USA. His performances have often been given in the presence of the Royal Family and he is regularly invited to be on jury panels for international piano competitions. He has recorded for BBC radio and has also broadcast on Radio Poland as well as German and Sri Lankan television. He was made a Medallist of the British Empire (BEM) in HM King Charles III first Birthday Honours in June 2023.

Anthony Adkins’ outstanding reviews from far and wide confirm and emphasise the extent of his formidable international reputation.

“A virtuoso technique at the service of a perceptive musical mind” and “His romantic warmth and fervour were engagingly irrepressible” – The Daily Telegraph

“Command of tone and colour” – The Times

“A brilliant pianist” – Südkurier, Germany

“His playing was amazing” – Sud Ouest, France

“The audience was spellbound” – The Times, Richmond