"A master of gently theatrical timing" … "Elfin dexterity and tongue-in-cheek charm"
Gramophone
Pianist and fortepianist Emil Duncumb performs regularly at concerts and festivals across Europe, Norway and the UK. Highlights include concerts at Wigmore Hall and King's Place (London), as well as live broadcasts on WDR 3 and BBC Radio 3. His music has been played on several of Europe's leading radio stations.
Born in England to a Croatian mother and a British father, Emil moved to Norway at the age of eight and began studying four years later at the Barratt Due Institute of Music. He has since studied at the Royal Academy of Music, The Juilliard School, and the Norwegian Academy of Music. Emil is a prizewinner at the MAFest fortepiano competition in Bruges and is the 2022 recipient of the "Young Lindemann Award".
Emil has a particular passion for chamber music and founded the chamber group Pocket Sinfonia in 2016. Recent highlights include performances at the National Centre for Early Music (York), concerts in France and Germany, several tours in England supported by the Continuo Foundation, and a CD recording of orchestral works by Mozart and Haydn—transcribed for the ensemble by J. N. Hummel and M. Clementi—scheduled for release in 2026.
Upcoming projects include CDs of Beethoven's early piano sonatas and Mozart Concertos nos 9 and 17.