Draft:Rosemary Tuck

Rosemary Tuck is an Australian-British concert pianist and recording artist. She has researched and performed significant world premiere recordings, including the complete Concerti and Concertinos of Carl Czerny.

Career
Born in Sydney, Rosemary Tuck studied in Canberra with John Winther, at the Peabody Institute, Baltimore with Walter Hautzig and in London with Andrzej Esterhazy, himself a pupil of Heinrich Neuhaus in Moscow. She represented Australia in a series of concerts in America under the auspices of the Australian-American Bicentennial Foundation, and has further toured through Ireland, the United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Cyprus, New Zealand and Australia. She has appeared in numerous festivals, including the Aarhus Festuge, Wexford Festival, Liszt en Provence and Vendsyssel Festival, and has performed as soloist with with the English Chamber Orchestra, ABC Sinfonia, South Bank Sinfonia and the Orchestra of the City in London. In concert she has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House, the South Bank Centre in London, the National Concert Hall in Dublin and at the Aarhus Musikhuset in Denmark in the presence of Queen Margrethe II.

In 2001 she gave the first official performance in the William Vincent Wallace Millennium Plaza in Waterford, Ireland. Wallace is a composer she has performed widely, including concerts in Dublin, London and Melbourne during the composers bicentennial year. Gramophone Magazine noted:“Perhaps most striking is the dazzling Grande Fantasie La Cracovienne, composed for new Orleans in 1842. Strongly evoking Gottschalk, it has become almost as much Miss Tuck’s calling card as it was Wallace’s." . Her Naxos CD Chopinesque was a Gramophone Critics Choice of the Year (2012).

Rosemary has worked closely with Richard Bonynge, AC, CBE, both as soloist with orchestra and collaborative pianist since a concert in London in 2004 of music by William Vincent Wallace.

In 2020 she was Artistic Director and soloist for Bonynge's 90th Birthday Gala.

Her recordings include many world premiere performances, and she has championed the composers Lydaov (for Barrington-Coupes Concert Artist label), Ketèlbey, William Vincent Wallace, and Carl Czerny's works for piano and orchestra with the English Chamber Orchestra under Richard Bonynge for Naxos,  which have also featured in the UK Specialist Classical Charts.

Rosemary has also collaborated with writer Brian Matthews on “A Portrait of Eileen Joyce”, a radio play on the life of the Australian pianist, commissioned by the ABC.

During 2021 she commissioned a piano concerto from Australian composer Andrew Schultz drawing on an earlier uncompleted work by Richard Meale, with assistance from the Australian Music Foundation. She has performed works by Australian composers throughout her career, including music by Peter Sculthorpe, Richard Meale, Larry Sitsky, Donald Hollier, Stephen Leek and Wendy Hiscocks.

She has been on the committee of the Tait Memorial Trust since 2004, assisting young Australian and New Zealand Artists.

Personal life
Rosemary is married to the Consultant Clinical Psychologist Roy Shuttleworth.

Recordings
Carl Czerny: Concertinos Opp. 78 and 650 ECO/Richard Bonynge – Naxos 8.574458

Ketelbey: A Dream Picture – Naxos 8.574299 1995/2021

Carl Czerny: Second Grand Concerto in E flat major ECO/Richard Bonynge – Naxos 8.573998 2019

Carl Czerny: Piano Concerto in D minor ECO/Richard Bonynge - Naxos 8.573688 2017

Carl Czerny: Grand Concerto in A minor ECO/Richard Bonynge -Naxos 8.573417 2016

Carl Czerny: Bel Canto Concertante Naxos  ECO/Richard Bonynge – Naxos 8.573254 2015

William Vincent Wallace: Chopinesque - Naxos 8.572776 2012

William Vincent Wallace: Celtic Fantasies – Naxos 8.572775 2012

William Vincent Wallace: Opera Fantasies and Paraphrases – Naxos 8.572774 2011

William Vincent Wallace: To My Star – Cala 88044 2005

William Vincent Wallace: The Meeting of the Waters – Cala 88042 2002

Albert Ketelbey: Piano Music Vol. 2 – Marco Polo 8.223700 1995

Albert Ketelbey: Piano Music Vol. 1 – Marco Polo 8.223699 1995

Lyadov: Lyadov Recital (Vol.2) – Concert Artist 9001 (1990)

Lyadov: Lyadov Recital (Vol.1) – Concert Artist FED4-TC-070 (1989)

Publications
Publications Rosemary Tuck: Article - Backstage With Rosemary Tuck – Limelight Magazine November 29, 2019

Rosemary Tuck – Article: In The Mystical Land of Oz – Limelight Magazine July 9, 2021

Rosemary Tuck – Article: The Lost Emperor: Rhinegold - 24th October 2019, archived 27th June 2022

Rosemary Tuck - CD booklet notes – The Meeting of the Waters - Cala 88042, 2002 (music)

Rosemary Tuck - CD booklet notes - Carl Czerny: Concertinos Opp. 78 and 650 ECO/Richard Bonynge – Naxos 8.574458 2023

Rosemary Tuck - CD booklet notes - Carl Czerny: Second Grand Concerto in E flat major ECO/Richard Bonynge – Naxos 8.573998 2019

Rosemary Tuck - CD booklet notes - Carl Czerny: Piano Concerto in D minor ECO/Richard Bonynge - Naxos 8.573688 2017

Rosemary Tuck - CD booklet notes - Carl Czerny: Grand Concerto in A minor ECO/Richard Bonynge -Naxos 8.573417 2016

John Sant; Albert Ketelbey: From the Sanctuary of his Heart - Antony Rowe Ltd, 2000, p.132 David Grant : William Vincent Wallace and Music in Australia 1835-8  - Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, History, Politics and Culture - Irish Academic Press 2008  (Chapter 5)

Martin Anderson: William Vincent Wallace – Pianist Rosemary Tuck on Music's Errol Flynn – Fanfare Magazine March/April 2008 pp49-53

Nicholas Soames: The Story of Naxos - Piatkus 2012 p.290

Andrew Lamb: William Vincent Wallace: Composer, Virtuoso and Adventurer - Fullers Wood pp.186, 225 2012

Awards
Gramophone Critics Choice of the Year (2012) Chopinesque Naxos 8.572776

MusicWeb International: Nominee for Recording of the Year (2019) Second Grand Concerto Naxos 8.573998

Limelight Magazine – Editors Choice (August, 2023) Concertinos Opp. 78 & 650 Naxos 8.574458

Tait Memorial Trust, 2005: (https://www.taitmemorialtrust.org/awards-2000-2005/)

Australian Music Foundation

Lynn Foundation: 2005

Australian-Irish Heritage Association: 2005

Anglo-Austrian Society: 2022

ABC Classic fm CD of the Week (2002) The Meeting of the Waters CALA 88042

Scala Radio Album of the Week (2021) A Dream Picture Naxos 8.574299