Person Open DS/UK/12280 Hobson; Ian (1952-); English pianist Hobson Ian 1952- English pianist Male

Ian Hobson was born in Wolverhampton in 1952. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Yale University in the United States. His teachers included Claude Frank, Ralph Kirkpatrick and Menahem Pressler. Hobson made his London debut in 1979. He won silver medals in the Arthur Rubinstein and Vienna-Beethoven competitions and first prize in the 1981 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. His United States debut came in 1983, and he has since performed in concert and recital in many countries and with some of the world’s great orchestras. He frequently conducts from the keyboard. He has attracted world class instrumental soloists to appear with the Sinfonia da Camera, which he founded in 1984. His opera conducting activities include works from Giovanni Battista Pergolesi to Richard Strauss. For his own Zephyr label, he performed the world premiere of a new concert edition of John Philip Sousa's operetta El Capitan, with the Sinfonia da Camera, and also recorded the work. His other recordings include Stravinsky's Histoire du soldat and Walton's Façade, with the baritone William Warfield. Ian Hobson has been music professor at the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign since 1975. He has also been a juror on a number of international music competitions. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 2/7/2014 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 c142ce24-7605-4907-b6f4-2f432656c11a