Sir Stephen was awarded a Knighthood for Services to Music in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Learn more

Stephen's Chopin Nocturnes album hits #1 in the BILLBOARD classical chart

"A sublime new recording by Stephen Hough" Alex Ross on Chopin Nocturnes

Stephen Hough: The Erato Years (1987-1998) The 9CD set reviewed in BBC Music Magazine

Stephen's Chopin Nocturnes chosen as an 'Album of the Year' in The New Yorker, the Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and Classic FM

Q and A with Stephen in the Observer

Complete Chopin Nocturnes, recorded during lockdown at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, available here as CD and download on Hyperion

An interview in French in Pianiste magazine

An interview with Stephen in Korean in Chosun Ilbo

An interview with Stephen in The Tablet about his new album

Stephen's new album VIDA BREVE is released on 29th January. Here's the first review, a Gramophone Editor's Choice. And here's the Mail on Sunday's 5-star review. In the New York Times here

Should we just get rid of intervals at concerts? Stephen's article in the Guardian

Stephen's book 'Rough Ideas' wins a 2020 Royal Philharmonic Society Award.

"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.

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

Stephen talks about his and London's return to live concerts with Jon Snow on Channel 4 News

Beethoven: The Piano Concertos. Stephen latest recording is released. Here is a review from The Times

Stephen to open live broadcast concert series at Wigmore Hall

Two articles about coping with COVID-19 - in the Guardian and the Tablet

Stephen's Gramophone front cover interview. Read here

Stephen's new Brahms CD is Recording of the Month in Gramophone Magazine. Here's the review.

Believing in Christmas - an article in the Evening Standard

Stephen is made a Companion of the Royal Northern College of Music

Stephen's Rough Ideas chosen as one of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019

An article in Standpoint Magazine on musical notation and improvisation, the difference, and whether it matters

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 & The Spectator & Catholic Herald & Gramophone & Classical Music & Times Literary Supplement & Church Time

A profile of Stephen in The Times: the BBC Proms and the gold piano. Watch the encore from that concert here

Stephen is appointed a Visiting Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford for a three-year term (2019-22)

The Sixteen and Harry Christophers include Stephen's sequence HALLOWED on their latest CD. Listen here on Spotify

Here is the list of paintings from Stephen's Hertford Festival show

Stephen is awarded honorary membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society

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

Stephen selects six of the best fictional priests for The Times

A profile of Stephen in the LA Times

Stephen's first novel 'The Final Retreat' is published by Sylph Editions

Stephen is made an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple

Stephen was made an Honorary Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Stephen chooses his 'Desert Island Discs' for BBC Radio 4

A profile of Stephen in The Economist magazine

The 25 greatest pianists of all time?

Two interviews with Stephen: Los Angeles Magazine and Huffington Post

A profile of Stephen in Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Download Article

A profile of Stephen in the Boston Globe

Stephen in Vanity Fair; and a profile: in conversation with Stephen in the Wall Street Journal

Stephen is made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the New Year's Honours List

Stephen's iPad app THE LISZT SONATA is released on iTunes

A profile of Stephen in the New York Times

An interview with Stephen in the Sunday Times

An exhibition of Stephen's paintings runs for the month of October at Broadbent Gallery in London

A profile of Stephen in Le Monde

An interview with Stephen in Chinese

Stephen wins Diapason d’Or de l’Année 2011 for his Chopin Waltzes CD

Stephen to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Liverpool in December 2011

Stephen wins the 2010 Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award

'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

Stephen is featured in the Japanese magazine PEN. Click here to read

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

Stephen and The Takács Quartet are Nominated for a 2009 Grammy (Best Chamber Music Performance category 104)

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"‍

Stephen wins International Poetry Competition, click here for more details

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