Pianist Benjamin Hochman
is achieving widespread acclaim for his performances as
orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. He
is an imaginatively mature artist with an innate ability
to combine beauty of line within the overall shape of a
piece. Mr. Hochman has performed with the New York
Philharmonic, Chicago and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras,
Seattle Symphony and the National Arts Centre Orchestra
under eminent conductors such as Jaime Laredo, Jun
Märkl, Bramwell Tovey and Pinchas Zukerman.
In the 2007-2008 season Benjamin Hochman appears with the
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Portland Symphony.
He collaborates with the Daedalus Quartet at Lincoln
Center, and performs at the Philadelphia Chamber Music
Society and New York Society for Ethical Culture. Mr.
Hochman's guest appearances includes chamber music with
the New York Philharmonic; Bravo! Vail, where he performs
Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals with the New York
Philharmonic under Bramwell Tovey; and the Bridgehampton
Chamber Music Festival. He returns to his native Israel
and performs with the Raanana Symphonette and the
Jerusalem Symphony under Leon Botstein. In 2008 he
returns to the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival to perform
the Bach Goldberg Variations.
Mr. Hochman gave his New York solo recital debut at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 2006-2007 season. That
season he performed Bernstein's Symphony No. 2 Age of
Anxiety with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leon
Botstein and toured with pianist Jonathan Biss. He also
appeared at the Kennedy Center and 92nd Street Y with the
Zukerman ChamberPlayers, participated in Carnegie Hall's
Young Artists workshops with Osvaldo Golijov and Dawn
Upshaw, and performed concerts throughout Israel.
Benjamin Hochman has performed at the Marlboro, Ravinia,
Santa Fe, Spoleto/Italy, Lucerne, Verbier, Bravo! Vail,
Eastern Shore, and Vancouver festivals. A passionate
chamber musician, Mr. Hochman continues his relationship
with Lincoln Center's prestigious "Chamber Music
Society Two." He has collaborated with members of
the Guarneri, Orion, Mendelssohn, Prazak, and Daedalus
Quartets and with Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson,
Cho-Liang Lin, Ani Kavafian, and Ralph Kirshbaum. In
recent seasons, he has played recitals at Vancouver's
Recital Society, Ravinia and the Gilmore Keyboard
Festivals' 'Rising Star' series, Santa Fe's "Artist
Circle" series, New York's Town Hall, Italy's
Spoleto Festival, and the Louvre.
Mr. Hochman's performances have been broadcast on
National Public Radio's Young Artist Showcase and
Performance Today, CBC (Canada), ABC (Australia), Radio
France, and Israel's Voice of Music radio station, as
well as on the European television network, Mezzo.
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. |
