Haddo Arts are delighted to announce that the celebrated, innovative, international pianist, Joanna MacGregor CBE has joined us as a Patron. You may already be familiar with Joanna’s work and you may have seen her at Haddo where she has performed in the 2021 Haddo Arts Festival and is returning for the 2024 Festival.
Joanna MacGregor is one of the world’s most innovative musicians, appearing as a concert pianist, curator and conductor. Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and Professor of University of London, Joanna MacGregor was the Artistic Director of Dartington International Summer School & Festival 2014-2019, Artistic Director of the Bath International Music Festival 2006-2012, and curated the multi-arts Deloitte Ignite Festival at the Royal Opera House, as well as Aventures+, an orchestral series for Luxembourg Philharmonie. She runs an annual Summer Piano Festival at the Royal Academy, involving over a hundred young musicians playing core repertoire as well as collaborating with composers, actors, visual artists, writers and filmmakers. Joanna has just been appointed Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Brighton Philharmonic, as it approaches its centenary.
As a solo artist Joanna has performed in over eighty countries and appeared with many eminent conductors. Joanna is a regular broadcaster, making numerous appearances at the BBC Proms and as a recording artist she is a veteran of over forty solo recordings, ranging from Bach and Scarlatti to jazz and John Cage.
Joanna was awarded a CBE for services to music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2019. She was Visiting Musician at Oriel College Oxford, and in 2016 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Cambridge. She has received Honorary Doctorates from Bath University, Bath Spa University and the Open University, as well as Fellowships from the Royal Academy of Music, Trinity College of Music and Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. She makes regular appearances on television, and was the subject of a South Bank Show; her ongoing series of music books, PianoWorld, has been hailed as ‘a new series for the Millennium’. She is currently Chair of the Paul Hamlyn Music Awards, and was a 2019 Booker Prize Judge.
We are looking forward to working with Joanna whose distinguished international career, commitment to musical education, nurturing the next generation of musicians and continuing innovation are an excellent fit with Haddo Arts’ aims: to support emerging talent, promote excellence and bring national and international artists to the rural community of north east Scotland.
