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Rhondda Gillespie was born on 4 August, 1941 in Australia, is a Rhondda Gillespie was born classical pianist. Discover Rhondda Gillespie's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Age 69 years old
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Born 4 August, 1941
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Date of death 30 December, 2010
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Nationality Australia

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1941

Rhondda Gillespie (4 August 1941 – 30 December 2010) was an Australian-born classical pianist who resided primarily in the United Kingdom and Barbados.

She was a specialist in the music of Franz Liszt and brought to light many of his lesser-known works.

She was also renowned for her focus on contemporary music, and she gave many world premieres of British music.

Rhondda Marie Gillespie was born in Sydney in 1941, the only child of architect David Gillespie and his wife Marie (nee Saywell).

At age 8 she played Manuel de Falla's Ritual Fire Dance on Jack Davey's radio show Star Search.

She gave her first public recital at 12.

Her formal studies were at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Alexander Sverjensky (where her fellow students included Malcolm Williamson, Richard Farrell and Roger Woodward) and in Britain under Louis Kentner and Denis Matthews.

Wilfred Josephs' 14 Studies for Piano, Op. 53 were written for Gillespie, Joy Blech, and Yonty Solomon.

1959

She won the Harriet Cohen Commonwealth Medal in 1959.

Rhondda Gillespie's recordings included:

1967

Gillespie gave the world premiere of the complete set at the Cheltenham Festival in 1967.

She was the second wife of the music critic and musicologist Denby Richards.

1970

For Malcolm Arnold's 70th birthday they played his Concerto for Piano Four-hands and Strings, and for his 80th birthday the Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra.

Miriam Hyde and other composers wrote works for Gillespie and Weatherburn.

1973

They married on 29 May 1973, but divorced in 1977.

1976

In 1976, for Joseph Horovitz's 50th birthday, Gillespie played his Jazz Concerto at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

1977

She played Franz Liszt's piano transcription of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique at the 1977 London Liszt Festival.

With the actor Michael Gough she also gave the first complete performance in London of Liszt's dramatic recitations.

1984

In 1984, Gillespie and her fellow Australian pianist Robert Weatherburn formed a professional duo to present repertoire for piano four-hands and two pianos.

They toured Malta and England and appeared in Sydney.

1986

There they premiered John Dankworth's Fantasia Enigmatica in 1986.

1987

In 1987, at the Sydney Opera House, they gave the world premieres of Weatherburn's arrangement for two pianos of Liszt's Geharnischte Lied and of his own composition for two pianos, Mnajdra.

They gave the Southern Hemisphere premiere of Liszt's Concerto pathétique for 2 pianos.

1990

Rhondda Gillespie ceased playing in the 1990s due to arthritis in her fingers.

2010

She had come to spend much of her time (including the English winters) in Barbados, where she died on 30 December 2010, aged 69.

Her former husband Denby Richards had died on 7 December.