Background
Hobson was born in Wolverhampton in 1952.
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Ian Hobson
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He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Yale University in the United States.
Career
His pianistic repertoire spans the baroque to the contemporary, but he specialises in the Romantic repertoire. Hobson made his London debut in 1979. His United States debut came in 1983, and he has since performed in concert and recital in many countries and with many orchestras.
He frequently conducts from the keyboard.
His piano repertoire includes:
J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations
Mozart: Piano Concertos
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas
Mendelssohn: works for piano and orchestra
Robert Schumann: Piano Sonatas
Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto
Moscheles: Piano Concertos
Liszt: 2-piano arrangements of music by Saint-Saëns
Brahms: Variations
Rachmaninoff: 17 Études-Tableaux, 24 Preludes, and transcriptions
Paderewski: Piano Concerto
Godowsky: Studies on Chopin"s Études, and transcriptions of Schubert lieder
David Johnson: 12 Preludes and Fugues
concertos by Huss and Schelling
contemporary works by Benjamin Lees, Kevin Oldham, Ridout, Liptak and Gardner, some of which were written for him. He has attracted world class instrumental soloists to appear with the Sinfonia da Camera, which he founded in 1984.
His opera conducting activities include works from Giovanni Battista Pergolesi to Richard Strauss. Foreign his own Zephyr label, he performed the world premiere of a new concert edition of John Philip Sousa"s operetta El Capitan, with the Sinfonia da Camera, and also recorded the work.
His other recordings include Stravinsky"s Histoire du soldat and Walton"s Façade, with the baritone William Warfield.
Prior to joining the faculty at Florida State University, Hobson served as a music professor at the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He has been a juror on a number of international music competitions. Hobson is the father of National Public Radio Here & Now host Jeremy Hobson.
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United Kingdom