Welcome to the home page for British composer William Rhys Meek
Located in North East Lincolnshire, UK, William has developed a unique personal style of composing music for piano. He has created musical portraits of the wildlife and landscapes of the places he has lived and worked as an naturalist and ecologist.
William Rhys Meek 's albums 'A Fenland Journey' and 'On Salisbury Plain' are distributed globally via
Amazon and iTunes, in the MP3 download format.
Benjamin Frith
Saturday 5th September 2009, Well known concert pianist 'Benjamin Frith' performed the piece 'Dust Devil' from the album 'On Salisbury Plain'
The recital, was part of Grimsby's St Hughes Music Festival, and took place at : at St James Church, Grimsby. The energetic piece was well recieved by the audience." I enjoyed playing the piece it was very energetic"
Benjamin also played Beethoven, and Schuman, and also 8 minatures by David Power.
Pianist Benjamin Frith
Ivan Yanakov
International Concert Pianist Ivan Yanakov is a supporter of Williams work.
"I have played some of William's music, and I find it very good, its intelligent and deep"
Bulgarian-born pianist Ivan Yanakov is the winner of "Arists International Debut Winners Series" in New York City. He was awarded a fully sponsored solo debut recital at Carnegie’s Recital Hall in October 2001.
Mr. Yanakov is also winner of numerous international piano competitions. He has performed in France, Japan, Italy, South Korea, Hungary, Austria, Bulgaria, and throughout the United States.
The received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Mannes College of Music New York City. Among his teachers were Arkady Aronov and Stephanie Brown in piano, and Julius Levine and Felix Galimir in chamber music.
Ivan Yanakov has participated in music festivals in Italy (Settimane Musicale Senese), France (Flaine Musique), Bulgaria (Apolonia, Salon of the Arts, and the European Music Festival), and in the United States, where he played at music festivals in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Dallas, New Mexico, Michigan and others. In 1989, along with other Bulgarian musicians, Mr. Yanakov was selected by the Bulgarian Government to represent his country in concerts at the Franz LisztAcademy in Budapest.
His concerts were broadcast live many times: from the Los Angeles Museum of Art by WUSC Radio Station; from the 2002 Apolonia Music Festival in Bulgaria throughout Europe and North America via satellite, just to menation a few. Additionally, he has recorded for numerous radio and TV stations in five American cities, Hungary, and Bulgaria. Since 2003, by the invitation of the Bulgarian National Radio, he frequently records there.
In 2003 he performed over 70 concerts in Italy, and made his recital debut in Vienna. In 2004 he performed at the European Music Festival with the Sofia Soloists Chamber Orchestra, at The Salon of the Arts in Bulgaria, gave master classes and recitals in South Korea. In the 2004/2005 season performed in France, Italy, Bulgaria, and Austria.
In May 2005 alone, Mr. Yanakov performed with Sofia National Philharmonic, played at the Salon of the Arts in Sofia , gave 10 concerts in Italy, and played two major recitals in Paris as part of festivities honoring the world-renowned pianist Alexis Weissenberg. He also took part at the Sofia Summer Music Festival, and performed an all-Gershwin recital at the Apolonia Festival.
Mr. Yanakov is the Music Director and Co-founder of the Italian Siena Belcanto music festival, as well as of the upcoming London Piano Summer festival.
