Festival Artists

Benjamin Hochman

Piano
August 12, 2009: 7:30 pm
The Farmers' Museum

Pianist Benjamin Hochman is achieving widespread acclaim for his performances as orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. Mr. Hochman has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, New Jersey Symphony and National Arts Centre Orchestra under eminent conductors such as Jaime Laredo, Jun Märkl, Bramwell Tovey and Pinchas Zukerman.

This Summer, Benjamin Hochman appears at the Bard Music Festival's Prokofiev-themed season, and will perform Bach's Goldberg Variations at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in August. During the 2008-2009 season, Mr. Hochman appears with the Daedalus Quartet at Atlanta's Spivey Hall, performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 with the Vancouver Symphony, and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. Overseas, recitals are scheduled for Barcelona, London and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Mr. Hochman has also been invited by two renowned chamber ensembles, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and the Tokyo String Quartet, to appear in their respective series at the 92nd Street Y in New York.

Born in Jerusalem, Benjamin Hochman is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Mannes College of Music where his principle teachers were Claude Frank and Richard Goode. His studies were supported by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.