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Charles Owen

Pianist

Charles Owen enjoys an international player as both a soloist and as part of a piano duo with Katya Apekisheva, with whom he is co-artistic director of the London Piano Festival. He celebrates three successful decades as a performer with a 50th-birthday recital with actor Simon Callow at Kings Place on 15 September. His performance of Liszt’s , recorded at the Menuhin School during lockdown,

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