David Pyatt (born 1974) is an English French horn player. In 1988, aged 14, he became the youngest winner to date of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. In 1996 Gramophone Magazine announced David Pyatt as their Young Artist of the Year. Pyatt studied at Cambridge University.
His subsequent solo career saw his debut at the BBC Proms in 1993 performing Strauss' Second Horn Concerto. In 2004 he played Strauss' First Horn Concerto at the...
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David Pyatt (born 1974) is an English French horn player. In 1988, aged 14, he became the youngest winner to date of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition. In 1996 Gramophone Magazine announced David Pyatt as their Young Artist of the Year. Pyatt studied at Cambridge University.
His subsequent solo career saw his debut at the BBC Proms in 1993 performing Strauss' Second Horn Concerto. In 2004 he played Strauss' First Horn Concerto at the Last Night of The Proms, and also appeared at the Edinburgh Festival playing the Weber concertino for horn.
Pyatt has been Principal Horn of the London Symphony Orchestra since the 1998/9 season.
In 1996 David Pyatt signed an exclusive contract with Erato Disques. His first disc for Erato featuring the Mozart Concertos with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields was nominated as Gramophone Magazine's Recording of the Month in July 1997 and a second disc of horn and piano works with Martin Jones was released in Spring...
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