Margaret Kitchin (23 March 1914 – 16 June 2008) was a classical pianist, born in Switzerland but long resident in the United Kingdom. She was strongly associated with contemporary piano music, particularly that of Michael Tippett.[1]
Born as Margaret Rothen in Montreux, her mother was English and her father Swiss. She showed early promise as a pianist, attending the Montreux Conservatory and then the Lausanne Conservatory, where her teacher was Jacqueline Blancard. She married Michael Kitchin (a musician and composer) in 1935 and they moved to England in 1949. Kitchin then studied further at the Royal Academy of Music.[1]
Kitchin gave many premieres. Tippett dedicated his Piano Sonata No 2 to her, and she gave its first performance at the Edinburgh Festival in 1962. Peter Racine Fricker also wrote her several works. With Kyla Greenbaum and Robin Wood she was one of the three soloists at the Proms in August 1956 performing Fricker's Concertante for Three Pianos and Strings.[2][3]
Although she made few recordings, she did perform Tippett's first Piano Sonata and Iain Hamilton's Sonata, Op. 13 for the then new Lyrita label in 1960.[5] There are recordings of her broadcast performances in the British Library Sound Archive.[6]
Kitchin's second husband was music impresario Howard Hartog, who ran the Ingpen & Williams agency. They married in 1951 and stayed together, living in a Kensington flat from where they ran the agency until he died in 1990. She died at the age of 94, survived by two daughters from her first marriage.[1]
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^ abcStephen Plaistow. Obituary, The Guardian, 14 July 2008
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