Program and Artist Biography

Benjamin Hochman has earned widespread acclaim for his performances with the New York and Israel Philharmonics and the Chicago, Cincinnati, New Jersey, Pittsburgh and Vancouver Symphonies, among others. He has collaborated with the Tokyo, Mendelssohn, Casals, Pražák and Daedalus Quartets, the Zukerman ChamberPlayers, members of the Guarneri and Orion Quartets and with Miklós Perényi, Jaime Laredo, Cho-Liang Lin and Ani Kavafian. In 2009 he released his first album on Artek featuring solo works of Bach, Berg and Webern.

Hochman’s 2010-2011 season includes his San Francisco Symphony debut, a solo recital at New York’s 92nd Street Y, and festival appearances at Ravinia, Charlottesville, Salt Bay and Appalachian Summer. He performs with the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada, San Juan Symphony (Colorado), Tel Aviv Soloists, New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and Prague Philharmonia on tour in Spain. Chamber music projects with esteemed colleagues take place at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Philadelphia and Boston Chamber Music Societies, and East Carolina University – where he was recently appointed to the piano faculty – among others. He joins Efe Baltacigil for complete cycles of Beethoven Cello Sonatas in Istanbul and Philadelphia, and Concertante in works by Schumann and Chopin in New York, Baltimore, Harrisburg and Alaska. Benjamin Hochman is a proud recipient of a 2011 Avery Fisher Career Grant, awarded to talented instrumentalists believed to have great potential for solo careers.

A regular guest at international music festivals, Hochman has appeared at Gilmore, Lucerne, Marlboro, Prussia Cove, Spoleto/Italy, Vancouver and many others. He has participated in three prestigious residencies: Chamber Music Society Two at Lincoln Center, Isaac Stern’s International Chamber Music Encounters in Israel, and Carnegie Hall’s Professional Training Workshops.

Born in Jerusalem, Hochman is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Mannes College of Music, where his principal teachers were Claude Frank and Richard Goode. His studies were supported by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Benjamin Hochman is a Steinway Artist.