Malcolm Binns was born in
Nottingham, England, in 1936 and raised in
Bradford. He studied music at the
Royal College of Music in
London from 1952 to 1956, including piano with
Arthur Alexander. He made his London debut in 1957 and his
Wigmore Hall debut in 1958. He appeared with the
London Philharmonic Orchestra every year from 1962 until his retirement in 2016, aged 80. From 1961 to 1964 he was a professor at the Royal College of Music. Amongst his pupils was
Robert John Godfrey of progressive rock band,
The Enid. He first started working in a chamber duo with the violinist
Manoug Parikian in 1966. In the late 1970s he performed on a set of records for the L’Oiseau-Lyre label, playing original instruments (harpsichords and fortepianos) in a range of repertoire extending up to
Beethoven sonatas. He also recorded British repertoire for Lyrita, and made further recordings for Pearl, Chandos and Hyperion. His recordings include concertos by
Balakirev and
Rimsky-Korsakov, the
Transcendental Studies of
Lyapunov, works by
Hummel and
Medtner, as well as works from the standard repertoire by
Bartók,
Brahms,
Chopin,
Falla,
Franck,
Saint-Saëns,
Gershwin,
Grieg,
Liszt,
Mozart,
Poulenc,
Rachmaninoff,
Ravel and
Schumann. Binns retained the same piano tuner, Alfred E Clark of Wandsworth through his performing career. Clark, was a manufacturer of pianos from their shop and factory on Wandsworth Road, destroyed in an air raid in WW2. 1n 1996 he celebrated his 60th birthday with an all-Chopin recital which included the complete
studies from Opp. 10 and 25. APR issued a 90th birthday tribute box set in 2026. ==References==