Benjamin Beilman, Violin

Benjamin Beilman has won praise both for his passionate performances and deep rich tone which the Washington Post called “mightily impressive,” and The New York Times described as “muscular with a glint of violence.”

Mr. Beilman’s international touring schedule in 2017-18 and 2018-19 includes performances with the Houston, Oregon, Cincinnati, North Carolina and Indianapolis Symphonies, and Orchestra St. Luke’s, as well as play-directing both the Vancouver Symphony and the New Century Chamber Orchestra. Abroad, Mr. Beilman performs with the Sydney, Trondheim and City of Birmingham Symphonies, as well as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestra. “Demons,” a new work written for Mr. Beilman by Frederic Rzewski and commissioned by Music Accord, was premiered in 2018 at Baltimore’s Shriver Hall Concert Series and the Boston Celebrity Series.

Other current and upcoming recital appearances include Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, Kennedy Center, Spivey Hall, Philadelphia’s Perelman Theater, and Carnegie Hall. Mr. Beilman earned worldwide notoriety upon winning First Prize in both the 2010 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the 2010 Montréal International Musical Competition.

He has since gone on to receive a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a London Music Masters Award. Spectrum, a Warner Classics CD featuring works by Stravinsky, Janáček and Schubert was released in 2016.

Beilman studied with Almita and Roland Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago, Ida Kavafian and Pamela Frank at the Curtis Institute of Music, and Christian Tetzlaff at the Kronberg Academy.

He plays the “Engelman” Stradivarius from 1709 generously on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.