Biography
IAN FOUNTAIN
In 1989 Ian Fountain became the first British and youngest
ever winner of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano
Masters Competition in Tel Aviv at the age of 19. His
piano studies began at the age of five and he was a chorister
at New College, Oxford. He continued his studies at
Winchester College and the Royal Northern College of
Music working with Robert Bottone and Sulamita
Aronovsky.
lan Fountain has performed with many leading orchestras
including the London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Colin
Davis and the Israel Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta, the
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia
Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony
Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Deutsches
Symphonie Orchester, Singapore Symphony Orchestra,
Polish National Radio Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony
and Czech Philharmonic. He was invited to perform the
Brahms Bb Piano Concerto with the Moscow
Philharmonic at the opening concert of their 1992/1993
season in the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky
Conservatoire. Following his highly successful London
debut recital at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in December
1991 Ian Fountain was invited there again and to the
Wigmore Hall''s International Piano Season in May 1994.
He has given recitals throughout Europe and the USA and
at international festivals such as Berlin, Montpellier,
Kuhrno, Ravello and Davos.
As a chamber musician he collaborates regularly with the acclaimed violinist Ulf Hoelscher and the Mandelring and Emperor String
Quartets. In January 1998 he was one of three British
pianists invited to take part in the Anglo-German Piano
Series in Manchester presented by the Goethe Institute.
Recent seasons have seen radio broadcast recitals and
concerto performances in the USA, for the BBC and for
the Berlin Festival, where he played this selection of the
non-Beethoven Diabelli Variations.
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