Pianist Roy Howat is internationally renowned as both pianist and scholar, whose concerts, broadcsts and lectures regularly take him worldwide. 

A graduate of King’s College, Cambridge, he made a special study of French music in Paris with Vlado Perlemuter, and is one of the few British artistts repeatedly invited to teach and play French music at such places as the Paris and Geneva Conservatoires and on French radio.

He is specially known for his lively lectures and masterclasses, which he has given worldwide at venues including the USA’s Juilliard and Eastman Schools.

In a wide-ranging career he has also conducted professionarlly, played violin in major London chamber orchestras, and held university posts in several countries.  

Roy Howat has concertised and broadcast with an array of distinguished soloists, chamber groups and singers.  His recent performances with the Panocha Quartet in Japan, the Czech Republic and the UK (including the Wigmore Hall) have brought the house down, and in 2001 he toured in Egypt as both pianist and violist with the Sarastro Ensemble.