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First name: Francis
Last name: Pott
Dates: 1957
Category: Quartet
Nationality: english
Opus name: By Yon Castle wa (2009)
Publisher:
Peculiarities: See: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8243760&style=music
Information: www.francispot.com An academic and senior university manager as well as a practising musician, Francis was John Bennett Lecturer in Music at St Hilda's College, Oxford, from 1992 to 2001. In 2001 he took up the post of Administrative Head of Music at London College of Music & Media, now the Faculty of Arts at Thames Valley University, based in Ealing, West London. In 2002 he became Head of Research Development at LCMM, with a remit covering not only Music but also Media Studies and Creative Technologies. He also holds the title of Professor, having been appointed to the University's first ever Chair in Composition during February 2007. A chorister in the 1960s at New College, Oxford, as an adult Francis served in the Choirs of the Temple Church, London (1987-1991) and Winchester Cathedral (1991-2001), but as a performer he is primarily a pianist (with past training also as an organist and second-study oboist). His performing experience has embraced jazz (as pianist in Vile Bodies, now in its second incarnation but founded originally in Oxford by the late Humphrey Carpenter), mediaeval consort music (playing reedcap instruments and recorders), choral participation at a professional level, theatre-based keyboard work and harpsichord continuo work specialising in the French Baroque. In frequent demand as a solo pianist and accompanist, he currently maintains regular piano duo partnerships with Roger Owens, former winner of the Royal Overseas League Competition, and also with Jeremy Filsell, the internationally acclaimed virtuoso pianist and organist who has been a particular champion of Francis's own work over the past two decades. An especial interest for Francis is the pianistic tradition of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; in particular, Russian repertoire and the music of Nikolai Medtner, on whom Francis is completing a major critical study which is under contract for publication by Ashgate Press in 2007.