Simon Crawford-Phillips
And Philip Moore - About

We have decided to use our award to commission a new concerto: with only a handful of two-piano concertos in the repertoire, the possibility of adding another is incredibly exciting. It has been an unexpected luxury to have the genuine support of all the cultural, musical and financial benefactors that make up BBT. What a privilege for us to be able to broaden both the repertoire and scope of what we do as a piano duo, especially in a professional climate where this kind of commitment to young artists is so unique.

British pianists Simon Crawford-Phillips and Philip Moore have occupied a unique place amongst piano duos; they were both established chamber musicians in their own right when they formed the duo in 1995 and have devoted much time to this most exacting of disciplines, giving them extraordinary musical empathy which undoubtedly put them in good stead for their subsequent individually successful careers. The Duo won several international awards, performed at top festivals and venues in many countries and with the UK’s main orchestras.  They also premiered several new works for piano duo, beginning with the BBT co-commissioned Double Piano Concerto composed for them by Detlev Glanert that premiered in 2008 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

Funds from their BBT Fellowship also supported a Wigmore live performance recording, practice and rehearsal studio costs and a new portfolio of publicity photographs. The Duo also benefitted from one of BBT’s Artist profile films – a mini feature introducing their “twenty fingers, two pianos, one sound” – as well as a film leading up to the Glanert premiere, Concerto Countdown.

Simon and Philip were supported with a BBT Fellowship between 2004 and 2009.

For current biographies please visit simoncrawford-phillips.com and philipmoorepianist.co.uk

Read a blog by Simon Crawford Phillips and Philip Moore, Giving Life to Glanert’s Concerto, here

Press Release: A Rare Premiere – Double Piano Concerto