Oregon Bach Festival :: Shai Wosner

Guest Artist

Shai Wosner has gained international recognition for his exceptional artistry, musical integrity and creative insight. With a repertoire ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to Ligeti and composers of his own generation, he has been hailed by the Financial Times as "an artist to follow keenly". In the 2009-2010 season Mr. Wosner made his subscription debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conducted the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard in a performance broadcast on American Public Radio. He returned to the BBC Scottish Symphony in both subscription concerts and a performance at the Proms, and appeared with the BBC Philharmonic in a live broadcast from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. Other recent highlights include his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra; his return to the Atlanta and Houston symphonies and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia; and solo recitals at London's Wigmore Hall, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and The 92nd Street Y in New York. His 2010-2011 season includes subscription concerts with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and the release of a solo recording of works by Brahms and Schoenberg on the Onyx label. Wosner is the recipient of both an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, and a former BBC New Generation Artist. He has worked with conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Slatkin, Donald Runnicles, Alan Gilbert, Zubin Mehta and Hans Graf, and collaborated with such esteemed artists as Pinchas Zukerman, Lynn Harrell, Cho-Liang Lin and Christian Tetzlaff. Mr. Wosner lives in New York City.

At the 2010 OBF, Shai Wosner subs for Jeffrey Kahane in At Home with the Schumanns July 6 and in recital July 7.

For more, see http://www.shaiwosner.com/

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