Kristian Bezuidenhout began his studies in Australia at the age of ten. Mr. Bezuidenhout is a versatile keyboard player who performs regularly on fortepiano, harpsichord and modern piano in North America, Europe, South Africa, Great Britain, Australia and Asia. He performs chamber music with Giuliano Carmignola, Pieter Wispelwey, Paul O‚Dette, Daniel Hope, Malcolm Bilson and the Nederlands Kamerkoor under Marcus Creed; The Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Concerto Köln, and the Dutch Radio Chamber Orchestra under Frans Brüggen. Since 2003, Mr. Bezuidenhout regularly appears with his duo partner, the German tenor Jan Kobow. In November of the same year the two recorded Die schöne Müllerin and will continue their survey of Schubert in the coming years. In 2001, Kristian was awarded First Prize and the Audience Prize in the Thirty-Eighth Festival of Flanders International Fortepiano Competition. In the same year he presented his official New York debut at Carnegie Hall and released a disc of Mozart Sonatas and Fantasies. He made his sensational debut with the Handel and Haydn Society under Grant Llewellyn in 2004 in performance's of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto.

Kristian Bezuidenhout appears in the "Classical Masters: Mozart and Haydn" program on March 10 and 12, 2006.

< BACK to Guest Artists