This month we send birthday greetings to a noted authority on British piano music, Malcolm Binns who celebrates his 90th birthday on 29 January.
Born in Nottingham in 1936, Malcolm studied music at the Royal College of Music where he was a professor from 1961 to 1964. He made his Wigmore Hall debut in 1958, and from 1960 he frequently appeared at the London Proms including annual performances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 1962. He also appeared with numerous other orchestras and conductors internationally and performed on several BBC radio broadcasts.
Binns specialised in the performance of British piano music including works by Arnold Bax, Richard Rodney Bennett, Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Hamilton Harty, John Ireland, Patrick Piggott, Alan Rawsthorne, Edmund Rubbra and Charles Villiers Stanford. He has also recorded five of the six piano concertos by William Sterndale Bennett, and a range of British repertoire for Lyrita, with further recordings for Pearl, Chandos and Hyperion and recorded several CDs for the BMS.