Kristian Bezuidenhout

South African-born, London-based Kristian Bezuidenhout is normally ranked among the best period-instrument key pad players of his era and could very well be most widely known for his fortepiano interpretations of music by Mozart. Certainly, and from 2010, he continues to be involved with a project using the Harmonia Mundi label to record the complete solo keyboard result from the composer, the 1st two volumes which possess garnered high compliment from throughout the world. Since Bezuidenhout’s repertory also consumes functions by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, and additional Romantic-era composers, he continues to be quite energetic on the present day piano aswell. Like a harpsichordist he offers delved into a range of functions by J.S. Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann, and several additional Baroque composers. And in addition, Bezuidenhout performs frequently with a number of the leading early music ensembles, like the Orchestra of age Enlightenment, Orchestra from the Eighteenth Hundred years, as well as the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Furthermore, he is mixed up in chamber world, partnering such performers as violinists Viktoria Mullova and Petra Müllejans. Besides Harmonia Mundi, Bezuidenhout provides documented for DG, Atma Classique, and various other major brands. Kristian Bezuidenhout was created in South Africa in 1979. From age group ten he researched in Australia. He previously advanced keyboard research on the Rochester, New York-based Eastman College of Music, where his instructors included Malcolm Bilson, Rebecca Penneys, and Paul O’Dette. In 2001 Bezuidenhout captured initial prize on the Bruges Fortepiano Competition. That same season he produced his first documenting, a disk of Mozart functions on the Fleur de Boy label entitled Sturm und Drang. He gradually built an effective career, as well as for the 2005-2006 period was named one of the most Exciting Youthful Musician with the Dutch Federation of Music and Crisis. Bezuidenhout got a notable season in 2007: he collaborated with tenor Jan Kobow with an acclaimed Atma Classique documenting, Schwanengesang, a disk of tracks by Schubert and Mendelssohn; and he was presented with the Erwin Brodky Award with the Cambridge (Massachusetts) Culture for Early Music. Bezuidenhout was also showing up regularly in collaboration with Viktoria Mullova and specifically Petra Müllejans. With Müllejans Bezuidenhout produced an acclaimed 2009 disk of three Mozart sonatas, on Harmonia Mundi. Bezuidenhout’s second level of the entire Mozart keyboard result was released in 2011 on Harmonia Mundi and provided sonatas K. 330 and K. 457, and various other works. Bezuidenhout can be around the faculties from the Eastman College of Music and Schola Cantorum in Basel.