Biography
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Born
7 August 1952 (age 72)
Ian Hobson (born 7 August 1952) is an English pianist, conductor and teacher. His pianistic repertoire spans the baroque to the contemporary, but he specialises in the Romantic repertoire.
Ian Hobson was born in Wolverhampton in 1952. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Yale University in the United States. His teachers included Claude Frank, Ralph Kirkpatrick and Menahem Pressler.
Hobson made his London debut in 1979. He won silver medals in the Arthur Rubinstein and Vienna-Beethoven competitions and first prize in the 1981 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. His United States debut came in 1983, and he has since performed in concert and recital in many countries and with some of the world’s great orchestras. He frequently conducts from the keyboard.
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