Ben Schoeman Piano Recital
Ben Schoeman Piano Recital
24 August 2017
Odeion
19:30
The South African pianist Ben Schoeman has won major prizes, including the first grand prize in the 11th UNISA Vodacom International Piano Competition (Pretoria, 2008), first prize and gold medal in the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition (London, 2009), the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Music (2011), the KykNet Fiesta (2012) and the Contemporary Music Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition (USA, 2013). In 2016, he was awarded the Huberte Rupert Prize of the South African Academy of Arts and Sciences for his contribution to music in his native country.
He has given solo, chamber music and concerto performances throughout Europe, Canada, the USA and South Africa in such prestigious concert halls as the Wigmore, Barbican, Cadogan and Queen Elizabeth Halls (London), the Konzerthaus (Berlin), the Gulbenkian Auditorium (Lisbon), Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, the Cape Town City Hall and the Romanian Athenaeum (Bucharest). He has recently appeared as soloist in Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand and Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall (London). His critically-acclaimed renditions of Liszt’s Piano Concertos No. 1 and 2 with the CPO are frequently broadcast on South African national television. He has collaborated with numerous conductors, including Nicholas Cleobury, Carlos Izcaray, James Judd, Gérard Korsten, Theodore Kuchar, Diego Masson, En Shao, Yasuo Shinozaki and Conrad van Alphen.
In collaboration with his duo partner, cellist Anzél Gerber, Ben was awarded the first prize in the Ibla Grand Prize Competition (Italy). The duo performed at Carnegie Hall (New York) and has received the gold medal in the Global Music Awards for their recording of music by Anton Rubinstein.
Ben studied at the University of Pretoria, the International Piano Academy (Imola), the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. His teachers include Michel Dalberto, Louis Lortie, Ronan O’Hora, Boris Petrushansky, Joseph Stanford and Eliso Virsaladze. In 2016 he obtained a doctorate in music from City, University of London and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. His solo album, featuring works of Franz Liszt, has been released by TwoPianists Records and is distributed worldwide through Naxos Global. He is a Steinway Artist.
PROGRAMME:
Johann Sebastian Bach/Ferruccio Busoni
Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ (BV B 27/5)
Robert Schumann
Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Zoltán Kodály
Dances of Marosszék (1927)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsk, transcr. Mikhail Pletnev
Concert Suite from 'The Nutcracker', Op. 71
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sonata No. 2 in B flat-minor, Op. 36 (1931 version)
ADMISSION
- R130 (adults)
- *R90 (pensioners)
- *R70 (UFS staff)
- *R50 (students, learners and block bookings of 10+)
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*Please note that tickets for pensioners, students, learners and UFS staff can only be purchased at a Computicket outlet (Shoprite Checkers) or at the doors since a valid card or ID has to be presented to qualify for the above mentioned discount.
ENQUIRIES
Ninette Pretorius (tel. 051 401 2504)