Bryce MORRISON

Bryce Morrison is considered among the world’s leading authorities on piano performance. A music scholar of the Kings School Canterbury, he later read English at Oxford University before teaching in Canada and America. He is a professor of keyboard literature and performance at The Royal Academy of Music and is a visiting professor at the Birmingham Conservatoire, Chetham’s School of Music, The Royal Northern School of Music and The Texas Conservatoire for Young Artists. He has given master-classes worldwide and appeared on television and radio in Canada, America, Poland and Australia. He has been a jury member of over fifty International Piano Competitions where his colleagues have included Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jorge Bolet and Lazar Berman and he has chaired the jury of the Naumburg International Piano Competition in New York, The Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow and The International Terence Judd Award in London.

He has published extensively in all the major British papers, Gramophone etc. and has published a much praised biographical study of Liszt with a foreword by Jorge Bolet. He has written over five hundred annotations for all the major and minor record labels (DG, EMI, Decca, Philips etc.) and was instrumental in promoting the work of Terence Judd, Eileen Joyce and, most recently, Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, writing extensively about their lives and bringing their work to public attention on CD. He has also published interviews with most of the world’s great pianists (Horowitz, Rubinstein and Sir Clifford Curzon, to name a few).

He has broadcast extensively for the BBC (including thirty contributions to ‘Building a Library’, a lively discussion of all the current recordings of a particular work), ABC, CBC etc., is a member of The Critics Circle, was Corina Frada Pick’s Professor of Advanced Piano Studies at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago and in 1999 gave a marathon thirty-two lectures and master-classes at the Mannes School of Music in New York before continuing as a guest professor at The University of California in Santa Barbara. He has made over fifty contributions to the most recent edition of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, holds five degrees in music and literature and was recently awarded an honorary ARAM at The Royal Academy of Music.

布萊斯 • 莫里森

莫里森乃鋼琴業內權威代表之一。坎特伯里國王學院音樂學者，及後在牛津大學修讀英語，之後前往加拿大和美國教學。皇家音樂學院鍵盤文學和表演系教授，同時亦擔任伯明翰音樂學院、切塔姆音樂學院、皇家北方音樂學院和德克薩斯音樂學院的客座教授。於世界各地主持大師班，頻繁出現在加拿大、美國、波蘭和澳洲的電視及電台廣播中。獲超過50個鋼琴大賽聘請為評委，曾與阿殊堅納西､博萊特和貝爾曼共為評委同事，在格拉斯哥的「瑙姆堡國際鋼琴大賽」和倫敦「國際朱特大賽」擔任評委主席。

他的文章廣見於英國各大報刊和留聲機雜誌等，曾出版關於李斯特的傳記並獲著名鋼琴家喬治•博列特撰寫前言。為各大小唱片公司（DG, EMI, Decca, Philips等）撰寫超過500篇關於唱片的注釋。多次撰寫關於特倫斯•朱特､艾琳•喬伊絲和泰森華倫婷等音樂家的生活，引起公眾對他們音樂的重視。亦曾採訪過偉大的鋼琴家如霍洛維茲、魯賓斯坦和柯曾爵士。

BBC(獻稿30篇於電台節目「成立圖書館」及大量專題直播節目)､ABC及CBC電台常客。藝評協會成員之一。為「格羅夫音樂及音樂家辭典」撰稿超過50篇。最近獲皇家音樂學院頒發榮譽院士封號。