Rolf Hind BMus

Rolf Hind has worked closely with living composers across the range of styles: from John Adams and Tan Dun to Ligeti and Kurtag, Xenakis and Messiaen to Simon Holt and Judith Weir. The Independent Newspaper called him 'the bright young thing of the avant-garde keyboard'.

Born in London and now resident there after studies in London and Los Angeles, his career has a number of facets. He regularly appears at the new music festivals accross Europe: in Brussels, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Darmstadt, Vienna, Strasbourg, Paris. He plays with orchestras, from all the major BBC orchestras and regular appearances with the London Sinfonietta to the Danish and Swedish Radio Orchestras, the Munich Phil, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, the SoutheWest German Radio Orchestra, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Slovenian Radio Phil. He has had a number of concertos written for him: Unsuk Chin (BBC NOW) Poul Ruders (LPO) Bent Sorensen (BBCSO/Danish Radio) Simon Holt (London Sinfonietta) and in his fifth appearance at the BBC Proms in 2002 premiered a new concerto from David Sawer. Conductors he has worked with include Ashkenazy, Rattle, Slatkin, Andrew Davis, Markus Stenz, Oliver Knussen and Franz Welser Most. 

Further afield, he has toured Korea and Taiwan and made recital and concerto appearances at the Festivals of Perth (Australia) and Wellington (New Zealand). In the last few years, he has developed a growing reputation as a composer: Keith Potter of the Independent called him 'one of the rare examples of a performer who can make a successful career as a composer.'

His piano pieces and a chamber work The Horse Sacrifice have been broadcast by the BBC, he has written/improvised a score for German Radio to Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen, and he is currently working on several commissions, including one for the Huddersfield Festival for a piece for violin and piano which he will premiere with his regular duo partner, David Alberman.