Sir Stephen Hough, one of the most distinctive artists of his generation, combines a distinguished career as a pianist with those of composer and writer. Named by The Economist as one of the twenty living polymaths, Hough was the first classical performer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship (2001). He was awarded the Jean Gimbel Lane Piano Prize from Northwestern University in 2008, won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist Award in 2010, and in 2016 was made an Honorary Fellow of the RPS. In 2014 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honors in 2022.