Biography
JOHN BINGHAM
John Bingham was born in Sheffield in 1942. While a student at the Royal Academy of Music, his playing created
a sensation in the first international Clara Haskin Competition in Switzerland. He completed his studies at the
Conservatorium Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Berlin Musikhochschule, and finally at the Moscow Conservatoire. His
Teachers included Harold Craxton, Myers Fogging and in the U.S.S.R., Neuhaus.
He is the only British pianist to
have graduated from Neuhaus'' class and the first British musician to be awarded the Liszt Commemorative Plaque
by the Hungarian Government for his outstanding services to Uszfs music. Since his London debut which brought
such headlines as ''Perfection of John Bingham (Daily Telegraph) he has performed and broadcast throughout
the world with leading orchestras and conductors. He plays regularly with the London Orchestras, and for the
B.B.C. and has appeared several times at the ''Proms''. His recording debut of Schubert-Liszt transcriptions was
internationally praised-the critic of ''Records and Recording'' wrote, ''I regard him as one of the very greatest British
pianists of this century''. His commercial recordings also include concertos by Beethoven and Liszt, solo works by
Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Szymanowski and recordings of piano quintets with the Medici Quartet. His latest
CD release of Schumann''s Fantasy and Symphonic Etudes was short-listed for recommendation along with the
performances of Horowitz and Richter and proclaimed ''phenomenal Schumann playing'' (Fanfare Magazine
Nov/Dec 1991).
His travels have taken him to the Par East, Japan, the U.S.A. and Australia where he gave three recitals illustrating
a history of piano music at the Sydney Festival. After his Munich debut, ''Die Weif likened his phenomenal virtuosity
to that of Richter and proclaimed his magical beauty of tone, his lyricism and vision to have been ''a lecture in
Piano playing''.
In addition to his concert activities, John Bingham occasionally appears on the juries of International Competitions.
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