Ian Hobson

Scholarly, personable, fastidious, and perceptive in matters of style, Ian Hobson achieved his reputation being a pianist in a position to do justice to music of several periods. His thoughtful quest for interesting repertory provides moved itself to his are conductor. Along with his have Sinfonia da Surveillance camera, as well much like various other leading chamber orchestras, Hobson provides offered rousing concerts, a few of which were preparatory to recordings for the business he founded particularly to record both regular repertory and various other works of uncommon interest. He is a long-standing music teacher on the School of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana through the regular educational year so that as movie director of the summertime Music Celebration. After schooling on the Royal Academy of Music and Cambridge School, Hobson undertook additional research at Yale School. Among his instructors had been Sidney Harrison, Claude Franck, and Menahem Pressler. Sterling silver medals in the Artur Rubinstein and Vienna-Beethoven tournaments preceded an initial award in the 1981 Leeds International Piano Competition. With this award, Hobson discovered himself fully released on a global solo career. Furthermore to executing recitals, Hobson made an appearance with lots of the world’s main orchestras, including many in London, the Scottish Country wide Orchestra (today the Royal Scottish Country wide), the Halle, the Royal Liverpool Orchestra, the Orchester der Beethovenhalle, the ORD-Vienna, the brand new Zealand Symphony, and several of America’s primary symphonic ensembles. His concerto repertory, apart from even more customary fare, contains the concertos of Mendelssohn’s coach, Ignaz Moscheles, and Ignace Paderewski (functions recorded with the pianist), Clara Schumann, and Henry Holden Huss. For recitals, Hobson provides contained in his eclectic development works such as for example Brahms’ Variants for Piano, the Chopin-Godowsky etudes, Rachmaninov’s Preludes and 17 Etudes-Tableaux, furthermore to works created for him by modern composers, including Gardner, Lees, Liptak, and Ridout. Demand is continuing to grow for performances that present Hobson as both conductor and soloist with such orchestras as the British Chamber Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Kibbutz Chamber Orchestra of Israel, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and his very own Sinfonia da Surveillance camera. Hobson is noticed with some regularity as somebody in duo piano and piano four-hands recitals along with his wife, Claude Edrei Hobson. Furthermore to Hobson’s a great many other actions, he provides executed opera. Espousing repertory from Pergolesi to Richard Strauss, he performed and documented John Philip Sousa’s Un Capitan in the globe premiere of a fresh concert model. The production, offering the Sinfonia da Surveillance camera, was released over the Zephyr label in early 1998. Since he founded Sinfonia da Surveillance camera in 1984, Hobson provides attracted world-class performers to perform using the ensemble . Violinists Pamela Frank, Gil Shaham, Itzhak Perlman, Elmar Oliveira, and Pinchas Zukerman; pianists Michel Stop, Charles Rosen, and Menahem Pressler; clarinetists David Shifrin and Richard Stoltzman; guitarist Christopher Parkening; and performers Marilyn Horne and Nathan Gunn are but several who have made an appearance through the Sinfonia’s annual concert series. Apart from an active efficiency and teaching plan, Hobson offers offered on competition juries, with the demand of Vehicle Cliburn served like a juror for the initial and last rounds from the 10th Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1997. The next year, Hobson came back to Poland for the Artur Rubinstein Competition, this time around multi-tasking as juror, recitalist, and orchestra conductor for the schedule’s last round. He proceeds to keep up a busy plan like a recitalist in a wide selection of repertoire.