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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Faculty Recital: Benjamin Hochman, piano Monday, April 28, 2014 Program: Variations for piano, Op. 24 Oliver Knussen Cinque Variazioni Luciano Berio Meditation on Haydn's Name George Benjamin Piano Variations Peter Lieberson Variations on a theme by Händel, Op. 24 Johannes Brahms Avery Fisher Career Grant Winner and Bard College Conservatory of Music faculty member Benjamin Hochman made his highly acclaimed New York recital debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which was soon followed by engagements with the New York Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Hochman has performed as soloist with the Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Jerusalem Symphony Orchestras, the Prague and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras, Istanbul State Symphony, and National Arts Centre Orchestra in Canada. As a recitalist, he has appeared at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Louvre, l'Auditori de Barcelona, the Tel Aviv Museum, New York's Weill Recital Hall, the Gardner Museum in Boston, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. International festivals include Lucerne, Spoleto, Klavierfestival Ruhr, Prussia Cove, Marlboro, Ravinia, Gilmore and Santa Fe. Mr. Hochman is on the piano faculty of the Conservatory of Bard College and the Longy School of Music. He studied in Israel with Esther Narkiss and Emanuel Krasovsky, and later graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and Mannes College of Music, where his principal teachers were Claude Frank and Richard Goode. His studies were supported by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Homage to Schubert is Mr. Hochman's second solo recital recording -- his debut recording of works by Bach, Berg and Webern was released by Artek in 2009. László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building FREE and open to the public Location: Bitó Conservatory Building Contact: Conservatory Concert Office. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7196 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/news/events/