Rolf Hind

Rolf Hind’s career has established him as a major force as soloist, composer, recording artist, chamber musician, pedagogue, collaborator and concert planner. He has given recitals at many of Europe’s leading new music festivals, and at Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House and on tours of South Korea, Taiwan and Cuba.

Hind has worked with many leading conductors, including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Oliver Knussen, Sir Simon Rattle, David Robertson and Sir Andrew Davis and appeared seven times at the BBC Proms. Orchestras he has worked with include the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Munich Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Malmö Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, many appearances with the London Sinfonietta, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and with all the BBC orchestras.

Composers who have worked with Hind or written for him include Tan Dun, John Adams, Helmut Lachenmann, Unsuk Chin, Elliott Carter, George Benjamin and James MacMillan. Hind’s compositions include a piano concerto, Maya Sesha , a song cycle commissioned by Wigmore Hall, Blue to the Throat and an opera Sky In a Small Cage commissioned by Mahogany Opera Group.

As pianist Hind curated and performed in Occupy the Pianos, a piano festival which became a regular feature at St John’s Smith Square in London and also travelled to France and Denmark. He initiated a project in March 2020 which produced over a hundred new short piano pieces from composers far and wide, intended as responses to lockdown, a fascinating range of pieces which he is now including in recital and which has been performed in London, Glasgow and Zagreb. He re-visited a masterpiece in the form of Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’enfant Jésus.