'Sincere and accomplished'
Seen and Heard International 2023
Biography
Described as ‘brilliant‘Â by Seen and Heard International (2023), South African pianist Peter Cartwright has appeared at leading festivals and concert venues across South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, the USA, and England. A two-time South African Music Award (SAMA) winner, he is equally at home as a soloist or chamber musician, with a particular passion for championing South African composers.
Recordings
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Du Hast Diamanten
The complete works for violin and piano by Alan Rawsthorne
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No.1
Recorded with the Gauteng Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Eddie Clayton in 2023
Czerny Nonet
Carl Czerny's Nonet for nine chamber players. Recorded at the SABC M1 studios in 2021
A Tale of Spring, Sorrow and Schubert
A unique recording linking various chamber works by Schubert into a complete concert
Media
"The only thing missing from Peter Cartwright's recital at Northwards House today was an encore. It was such a splendid performance that I would have loved him to come back for a little tinkle of something. Something frivolous perhaps. But never mind. Nobody in the almost packed house - there might have been about two empty seats and a few among the extra chairs on the side - could have felt cheated. And they rose to their feet to give him a standing ovation."
Gillian Anstey
"This was a generous programme, performed by Marshall-Luck and Cartwright with evident affection for the music and a desire to share their commitment to this repertoire. They deserved the very warm reception that their sincere and accomplished performance received."
"Both violinist and pianist were as skilled in delivering the foot-tapping finale to the Rawsthorne, as they were in the gentler, dreamier lines of Delius’s Sonata in B major and the Cradle Song by Herbert Howells (the latter, another premiere, thanks to the determination of the EMF) – confirming them as two of our country’s very finest performers and advocates of English chamber music."
"With Soprano Sizukiwe Vimbani and pianist Peter Cartwright, one such performance was powerful enough to stir the layers of grief and loss induced by Covid-19 for this writer."
