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Classicsonline Home » Artists » » Frith, Benjamin
Benjamin Frith was encouraged by his teacher, Dame Fanny Waterman, to pursue a musical career after winning the British Dudley National Concerto Competition at fourteen. At twenty he became a Mozart Memorial Prize winner and was invited by Sir Peter Pears to appear at the Aldeburgh Festival. He achieved international recognition by sharing top prize in the 1986 Busoni International Piano Competition and first prize in the 1989 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition. He made his début at the Edinburgh Festival in 1992 with an acclaimed interpretation of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. He has given recitals and concerto performances worldwide with many leading orchestras and conductors including Zubin Mehta, Antoni Wit, Gianandrea Noseda and Tamás Vásáry. Frith’s solo recording series for Naxos have included major explorations of the early Romantic period, (Mendelssohn and John Field) an area in which he is considered to have a speciality. The Warsaw Philharmonic have reinvited him to perform concertos by Hummel and Field as part of their Chopin 200th anniversary celebrations.