This is a free recital, however we welcome donations from the audience. As part of our covid-secure measures, we have a socially-distanced seating plan, with reduced overall capacity. The audience should pre-register on the Eventbrite link above - registrations open 5 days before the concert. For guests that haven't pre-registered, admission will be based strictly on available capacity.
Dominic Doutney is a London-based pianist, studying for his Master’s degree at the Royal College of Music with professors Ian Jones and Dmitri Alexeev. He is the current recipient of the prestigious Reinhold-Blüthner scholarship.
Dominic is the 2020 winner of the ROSL Award for Keyboard. Dominic has also recently been offered a full scholarship to study Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music. Last summer Dominic studied at the Aspen Festival and School in Colorado, on a Polonsky Foundation Fellowship, having previously taken part in the piano masterclass programme at the Banff Centre in Canada (thanks to the English-Speaking Union’s Yehudi Menuhin scholarship). Dominic is a former joint winner of the European Piano Teachers' Association UK Piano Competition and winner of the Royal College of Music’s Teresa Carreño (2013) and Constance Poupard (2014) prizes. In 2017, Dominic was placed third in the Joan Chissell Schumann Prize, and in 2016, second at the Isidor Bajic Memorial Competition (category B).
Dominic is becoming a seasoned recitalist and concerto soloist. In October this year he performed Schumann’s Piano Concerto in St John’s Smith Square with the Young Musician’s Symphony Orchestra and Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in November with the Dorset Chamber Orchestra. In June he performed Brahms's Piano Concerto No 1 with the Leipziger-symphonieorchester in the Mendelssohn-Saal at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, to critical acclaim. Other concerto performances have included Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (with Martyn Brabbins and the Royal College of Music symphony orchestra), Brahms’s Piano Concerto No 2, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concertos nos 2 and 3, Grieg’s Piano Concerto, and Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No 1. Solo appearances have included recitals at the prestigious Beaumaris and Beaujolais music festivals (France), the Poros Piano Festival (Greece), the Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada), and in Moscow (at the invitation of the Spivakov Foundation). Closer to home, Dominic has performed at the Bolivar Hall, Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Elgar Room (at the Royal Albert Hall) and at 22 Mansfield Street (for the Nicholas Boas Foundation).
Dominic has made appearances on BBC Radio 3 (performing Chopin and discussing the art of virtuosity) and on CNBC (discussing the experience of participating in a masterclass with Lang Lang).
Outside of the piano, Dominic's interests include theatre, film and literature, and he is a fan of Harlequins rugby club.