SPONSORED: Ensemble. Unjustly Neglected - In this specially extended feature, Armstrong Gibbs' re-discovered 'Passion according to St Luke' impresses Roderic Dunnett.
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DISCUSSION: Defining Our Field - what is 'classical music' to us, why are we involved and what can we learn from our differences? Read John Dante Prevedini's essay, watch the panel discussion and make your own comments.
DISCUSSION: What is a work? John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about The performing artist as co-creator, including contributions from Halida Dinova, Yekaterina Lebedeva, Béla Hartmann, David Arditti and Stephen Francis Vasta.
Born in Sheffield on 31 March 1942 to working class musical parents, the brilliant English pianist John Bingham studied with Harold Craxton from the age of sixteen, and then with Myers Foggin at the Royal Academy of Music. Amongst various other teachers was Nadia Boulanger.
He broadcast for BBC Radio 3 and toured the world with a repertoire of more than fifty concertos, press reviews comparing him with Horowitz and Richter. A private person, he preferred to avoid the limelight, and taught at Trinity College of Music for most of his life, passing on to his students the rock-solid technique, tonal beauty and Romantic style that first became apparent during the two years he studied with Stanislav Neuhaus at the Moscow Conservatoire.
John Bingham died in Sheffield on 6 December 2003, aged sixty-one, after a long diabetic illness.
Profile. To Vladivostok With Thanks - Memories of the Russian pianist and teacher Vadim Suchanov (1949-2024) from Béla Hartmann
Planning your collection - John Bingham -