Kenneth Hamilton

Pianist, writer, and educator Kenneth Hamilton has proposed a significant reevaluation of performance practices connected with the virtuoso piano repertory of the late Romantic era and has realized his ideas through performances and recordings. Hamilton is also a noted educator, serving as professor, dean, and head of the School of Music at Cardiff University in Wales. His teachers include Ronald Stevenson, a composer whose music Hamilton has played and recorded on two volumes entitled Kenneth Hamilton Plays Ronald Stevenson in 2016 and 2019, respectfully. As a performer, he has focused on music of the extreme virtuoso tradition. Hamilton's most widely discussed written work is After the Golden Age: Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance (2008). Hamilton released the album Romantic Piano Encores in 2021, and the first of a Kenneth Hamilton Plays Liszt appeared the following year.