Rudolf Buchbinder Piano

Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder has been called "the Viennese oracle on the core literature of Haydn, Beethoven and Brahms" by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Firmly established as one of the most important pianists on the international scene, Mr. Buchbinder is a regular guest of such renowned orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, London Philharmonic, National Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has collaborated with the world's most distinguished conductors including Abbado, Dohnányi, Frühbeck de Burgos, Giulini, Harnoncourt, Maazel, Masur, Mehta, Saraste, Sawallisch, and Thielemann, and is a regular guest at the Salzburger Festspiele and other major festivals around the world.

Mr. Buchbinder has over 100 recordings to his credit, including the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas, the complete Beethoven concertos, the complete Mozart piano concertos, all of Haydn's works for piano, both Brahms concertos, and all of the rarely-performed Diabelli Variations collection written by 50 Austrian composers. The 18-disc set of Haydn's works earned him the Grand Prix du Disque. His cycle of all of Mozart's piano concertos with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, recorded live at the Vienna Konzerthaus, was chosen by Joachim Kaiser as CD of the Year. Mr. Buchbinder has also recorded live the Brahms piano concertos with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and all five Beethoven piano concertos with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra as soloist and conductor. In 2006, in celebration of his 60th birthday, he performed twelve Mozart piano concertos with the Vienna Philharmonic at the Vienna Festwochen, the live DVD recording of which was released by EuroArts. His next album will be a live recording of the Brahms piano concertos with the Israel Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta, to be released in November 2010.

Rudolf Buchbinder is the founding artistic director of the Grafenegg Music Festival, a major international music festival near Vienna which launched in August 2007. His recent performance highlights include the Jubilee Concert for the 50th Anniversary of the Großer Musikvereinssaal in Vienna (where Mr. Buchbinder made his debut at age 11 in 1958); a performance with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala at Teatro alla Scala; Beethoven Sonata cycles in Warsaw, Berkeley, and at the Vienna Musikverein; performing with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin; performances of all five of Beethoven's Piano Concertos with the Dresden Philharmonic; a tour with the Dresden Staatskapelle in Italy and Austria; a tour of Germany with the BBC Philharmonic; and return engagements with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Oslo Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Buchbinder was recently appointed Artist In Residence with the Dresden Staatskapelle and during the 2010-11 season, he will tour the U.S. with the orchestra, performing in cities including San Francisco, San Diego, New York, and Washington DC. He will also perform in New York at Carnegie Hall with the conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

Mr. Buchbinder lives in Vienna and is managed in North America by Tanja Dorn at IMG Artists.

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