Rolf Hind

"I've worked with the Sinfonietta many times over the years, but this is a project I'm particularly relishing. Helmut Lachenmann is one of the great living artists whom it is an honour and a privilege to know, and an absolute thrill to collaborate with..." Rolf Hind

Rolf Hind is performing at the Helmutt Lachenmann Festival at the Southbank Centre from Saturday 23rd to Sunday 24th October 2010, and in In Portrait: Beat Furrer at Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall on Tuesday 18th January 2011, 7.30pm.

With a technique that 'surpasses the boundaries of the possible on the piano' (De Standaard, Brussels), Rolf Hind has earned an enviable reputation as one of today's foremost interpreters of new music. Many of today's leading composers have written concertos for him, including Poul Ruders, Simon Holt and Unsuk Chin. He has recorded extensively on disc and for radio, with sold-out recitals in the BBC's Elliott Carter festival and the Southbank Centre's Xenakis Weekend broadcast on Radio 3. He has for many years enjoyed a close relationship with the London Sinfonietta and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Rolf plays frequently at new music festivals throughout the world and in 2005 made his Carnegie Hall debut playing works by John Adams at the composer's invitation.

He continues to win acclaim as a composer and has received commissions from the BBC, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Brighton Festival and Westdeutsche Rundfunk among others. He premiered his piano concerto, MAYA-SESHA, commissioned by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, in March 2008.

Rolf's UK premiere of James Olsen's Chameleon Concerto (with Clio Gould: violin) will be released on the final CD in the London Sinfonietta's own label Jerwood series on 7 September 2009.

Photo © Mykel Nicolau.