Ian Fountain (Piano)
In 1989 Ian Fountain became the youngest winner of the Artur Rubinstein Piano
Masters Competition in Tel Aviv at the age of nineteen.
Since then he has performed extensively throughout Europe, the USA, the UK
and the Far East, appearing with orchestras such as the London Symphony and Sir
Colin Davis, the Israel Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta and the Czech Philharmonic
and Jiri Belohlavek. He has also performed with the Deutsches Symphonie
Orchester Berlin, the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, the Hallй
Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber
Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony and the Utah Symphony among many others. In
Moscow he was invited to open the 1992–93 season of the Moscow Conservatoire,
and in Poland he marked the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Chopin’s
death by playing both Chopin Concertos in Krakow.
As recitalist, he has performed at major venues in New York, Chicago, Paris,
Berlin, Madrid and Jerusalem. He is a regular guest at international festivals
in Prague, Berlin, Schleswig-Holstein, Bucharest (Enescu Festival) and Kuhmo.
An avid chamber musician, he enjoys many long-standing partnerships with
musicians such as David Geringas, Ulf Hoelscher and the Mandelring and Emperor
Quartets, performing in concerts and festivals throughout Europe, Japan and
Korea. He has also recently undertaken several performances as conductor,
leading from the keyboard.
Performances this season include concerts with the Hungarian Philharmonic and
ZoltAn Kocsis in Budapest, the Enescu Philharmonic and Cristian Mandeal in
Bucharest, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Paavo Jдrvi in Japan, the
London Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Armenian
Philharmonic in Yerevan.
Ian Fountain has made several critically acclaimed recordings, of 20th
century piano sonatas for EMI, Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations for CRD Records
and the complete works of Rachmaninoff, Beethoven and Mendelssohn for Hдnssler
Classics with David Geringas.
In 2008 he collaborated on an edition of Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and
Cello for G. Henle Verlag (Munich).
Since 2001 Ian Fountain has been a professor of piano at the Royal Academy of
Music in London.
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