Glen Inanga
Following graduation from Clare College, University of Cambridge, as a British Council Scholar where he read the Engineering Tripos and received his Master of Arts degree in 1998, Mr Inanga studied with Martin Roscoe at the Royal Academy of Music, London, UK, where he won several awards including the prestigious Overseas Research Students Scheme (ORS) Award. He holds the M.Mus. degree of the University of London with distinction in Piano Performance and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in 2003.
As an international concert pianist soloist, he gave his New York début in September 2000, performing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue to a capacity audience in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Centre receiving rave reviews. Following his successful London Debut in November 2000, The Independent newspaper critic wrote: ‘Sensitive playing…he placed the melodies like valuable objects against whispered accompaniments’. In addition, his piano duo partnership with Jennifer Micallef (the Micallef-Inanga Piano Duo) is reputed to be amongst the most outstanding piano duos worldwide and continues to make an increasing impact on an ever-widening international audience. Their prizes include 1st Prize in the Ninth International Schubert Piano Duo Competition (1995), RTZ-CRA Ensemble Prize in the Royal Overseas League Competition (London,1996), the 45th ARD International Competition for Piano Duos (Munich, 1996) and the 7th Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition (Miami, 1999). In addition to a successful debut at the BBC Proms with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in July 2006, the duo’s disc, Robin Holloway's Gilded Goldbergs, on the Hyperion label, was selected as the Record of the Month, Editor's Choice, Gramophone Magazine, in February 2003 and was the Sunday Times ‘Disc of the Week’. The duo have appeared as soloists with orchestras, including Bournemouth Symphony, Bayerische Rundfunk, New Bulgarian Symphony and Brno Philharmonic. Following successful debut performances in Hong Kong and Singapore as well as in the Musikverein Concert Hall, performances for the 2010-2011 season include performances in Milan, Malta and the UK. In February 2004, the Micallef- Inanga Piano Duo as Artistic Directors successfully launched the first ever Cayman Arts Festival in the Cayman Islands currently held biennially.
Mr Inanga is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) which he joined in 2007 with the task of developing a music programme. As an educator, Mr Inanga is in constant demand as a specialist coach for piano duos and provides adjudication for piano duo competitions at leading international music conservatoires. In addition, he has presented Lecture Recitals at international symposia in the UK and Asia and works on special research projects relating to rarely performed and recorded works in the piano duo repertory as well as other genres.