| Biographies |
| Jocelyn
Abbott and Laura O’Gorman are acclaimed champions of “à
quatre mains” playing, commissioning transcriptions and
themselves adapting arrangements of the orchestral repertoire. Before the radio or gramophone, the great composers transcribed their ballets and large orchestral works for the full gamut of colour and percussive effects of the piano and twenty fingers. The Abbott O'Gorman Piano Duo formed in 1992. Both pianists are Steinway Artists and honorary associates of the Royal Academy of Music. They perform concerts world-wide, are regular radio broadcasters and their CD recordings have been met with great critical acclaim. |
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| Born in Canada, Jocelyn Abbott was educated at the University of Victoria, B.C. and the Royal Academy of Music in London. She has been performing professionally since 1978 and has given concerts world-wide both as a soloist and chamber pianist in the UK, Canada and the United States, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Australia & New Zealand and broadcast for the BBC, Classic FM, CBC & Radio New Zealand. | Born
in London, Laura O’Gorman was educated at the Royal Academy
of Music and the Moscow Conservatory. She has performed in solo
& chamber music concerts world-wide and has recorded with
The Philharmonia Orchestra and Moscow's "Ensemble XXI"
and broadcast for the BBC and Classic FM. |
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