UoS Music Presents | Staff Showcase: Duncan Honeybourne

Commended for his ‘gripping performances’ (The Times), ‘glittering performances’ (International Piano) and ‘great technical facility and unfailing imagination’  (Musical Opinion), Duncan Honeybourne has toured extensively at home and abroad. He broadcasts frequently on BBC Radio 3 and worldwide, and has premiered new piano works written for him by leading composers. He teaches at the Royal Academy of Music Junior Academy and the University of Southampton. Today’s programme features Francis Pott’s dramatic tone poem ‘Drowned Summer’, which Duncan premiered in 2024. The recital concludes with Schubert’s great final Sonata in B Flat, D960, which Duncan’s former teacher, the University’s Resident Pianist Rosemarie Wright, played 50 years ago in her inaugural recital in the new Turner Sims Concert Hall. This concert also commemorates 25 years since Duncan’s own first Turner Sims recital in 1999.