Биография

Iain Farrington has a busy and diverse career as a pianist, organist, composer and arranger. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London and at Cambridge University. He has made numerous recordings, and has broadcast on BBC Television, Classic FM and BBC Radio 3. As a solo pianist, accompanist, chamber musician and organist, Iain has performed at all the major UK venues and abroad in the USA, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Malaysia, Hong Kong and across Europe. He has worked with many of the country's leading musicians, including Paul McCartney, Willard White and Bryn Terfel. Iain played the piano at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics with Rowan Atkinson, the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle. Iain has composed and has arranged hundreds of works in many styles. His music often mixes jazz and popular elements into a modern Classical style. With the poet, DJ and actor Craig Charles he has written two large-scale orchestral works based on traditional fairytales. Iain has composed numerous works for the BBC Proms, including Beethoveniana in 2020, Gershwinicity in 2018, A Shipshape Shindig in 2017, and two works for the Wallace and Gromit Prom in 2012. His chamber orchestrations of the symphonic repertoire are regularly performed around the world and his organ arrangement of Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 was performed at the Royal Wedding in 2011. He has arranged and performed nearly all of the Mahler and Elgar symphonies for solo piano.