Pianist

Penelope Blackie’s repertoire is conventional, from Bach to Prokofiev, but her performances are not, characterised as they are by the emotional depth and subtlety of touch usually associated with pianists of an earlier era – but with the structural integrity demanded of today’s performers

Penelope Blackie began her concert career at the age of 10 as the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A K488. She gained her LRAM at the Royal Academy of Music at 16 and next year was invited by Vlado Perlemuter to become his student at the Paris Conservatoire, where she was awarded a unanimous Premier Prix. 

After becoming, together with Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida, one of the four finalists at the 1973 Clara Haskil competition in Vevey, Switzerland, she embarked on a career in Europe, along with engagements in the US.

An injury made her discontinue her career for a number of years, yet she returned to the concert platform some 20 years ago. Since then she has performed in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Moscow, the Channel Islands and other European venues.

She has lived in Paris and New York and now divides her time between London and Burgundy.