What's New
September 2020
"Graphic [...] Brutal [...] With its broad dualisms, fierce language, and dark themes, The Final Retreat is an arresting, harrowing and controversial personal struggle with faith and loss." A review of Stephen's novel.
June 2020
Stephen's book ROUGH IDEAS is published by Farrar Straus and Giroux in the US, and reviewed here by Musical America and here in the Toronto Star
June 2020
Stephen talks about his and London's return to live concerts with Jon Snow on Channel 4 News
May 2020
Stephen to open live broadcast concert series at Wigmore Hall
May 2020
Beethoven: The Piano Concertos. Stephen latest recording is released Here is a review from The Times
April 2020
Stephen's Gramophone front cover interview. Read here
April 2020
Two articles about coping with COVID-19 - in the Guardian and the Tablet
January 2020
Stephen's new Brahms CD is Recording of the Month in Gramophone Magazine. Here's the review.
December 2019
Stephen is made a Companion of the Royal Northern College of Music
December 2019
Believing in Christmas - an article in the Evening Standard
November 2019
Stephen's Rough Ideas chosen as one of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019
September 2019
An article in Standpoint Magazine on musical notation and improvisation, the difference, and whether it matters
August 2019
Reviews of Stephen's new book Rough Ideas published by Faber & Faber in The Observer & The Tablet & The Big Issue & BBC Music Magazine & International Piano & Literary Review & The Spectator & Catholic Herald & Gramophone & Classical Music & Times Literary Supplement & Church Time
August 2019
A profile of Stephen in The Times: the BBC Proms and the gold piano. Watch the encore from that concert here
July 2019
Stephen is appointed a Visiting Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford for a three-year term (2019-22)
November 2018
The Sixteen and Harry Christophers include Stephen's sequence HALLOWED on their latest CD.
Listen here on Spotify
June 2018
Here is the list of paintings from Stephen's Hertford Festival show
May 2018
Stephen is awarded honorary membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society
April 2018
One Catholic, one Anglican, one gay, one musical: four reviews for Stephen's novel in The Tablet the Church Times the Bay Area Reporter and BBC Music Magazine
March 2018
Stephen selects six of the best fictional priests for The Times
February 2018
Stephen chooses six best books for The Week
February 2018
A profile of Stephen in the LA Times
February 2018
Stephen's first novel 'The Final Retreat' is published by Sylph Editions
June 2017
Stephen is made an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple
November 2016
Stephen was made an Honorary Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
October 2016
Stephen chooses his 'Desert Island Discs' for BBC Radio 4
August 2016
A profile of Stephen in The Economist magazine
July 2016
The 25 greatest pianists of all time?
April 2016
Two interviews with Stephen: Los Angeles Magazine and Huffington Post
October 2015
A profile of Stephen in Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese)
May 2015
A profile of Stephen in the Boston Globe
April 2014
Stephen in Vanity Fair; and a profile: in conversation with Stephen in the Wall Street Journal
January 2014
Stephen is made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the New Year's Honours List
July 2013
Stephen's iPad app THE LISZT SONATA is released on iTunes
March 2013
A profile of Stephen in the New York Times
January 2013
An interview with Stephen in the Sunday Times
September 2012
An exhibition of Stephen's paintings runs for the month of October at Broadbent Gallery in London
March 2012
A profile of Stephen in Le Monde
December 2011
An interview with Stephen in Chinese
November 2011
Stephen wins Diapason d’Or de l’Année 2011 for his Chopin Waltzes CD
July 2011
Stephen to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Liverpool in December 2011
May 2010
Stephen wins the 2010 Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award
March 2010
'The Sacred Made Real' moves from London to the National Gallery in Washington D.C.
Listen to Stephen's sextet and see the slide show here and find out more about the piece here
February 2010
Stephen is featured in the Japanese magazine PEN.
Click here to read
October 2009
Stephen is nominated by The Economist and Intelligent Life magazines as one of 20 living polymaths, alongside Umberto Eco, Noam Chomsky and Michael Ignatieff.
Click here to read more
November 2008
Stephen and The Takács Quartet are Nominated for a 2009 Grammy
Click here for details (Best Chamber Music Performance category 104)
September 2008
Stephen Wins the Gold Disc Award from Gramophone
- Gramophone: "Stephen Hough's complete Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos wins Gold Disc"
- Reuters: "Hough's CD is Gramophone's Most Popular"
February 2008
Eugène Leroy
Stephen has written an introduction to the catalogue of an exhibition of Eugène Leroy's unique paintings. Click here to read
January 2008
Stephen wins International Poetry Competition
December 2007
Stephen Wins Northwestern's $50K Lane Prize
Stephen is the winner of Northwestern University's $50,000 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance. The award is given to "pianists who have achieved the highest levels of national and international recognition." Click here for more details
