BIOGRAPHY

Award winning British-Polish-German pianist Benjamin Mead has quickly established himself as a highly expressive and sensitive Collaborative Pianist. Praised as outstanding, perceptive and elevating, he is the co-founder of the Rhonefestival in Switzerland. He is constantly seeking for ways to revitalise the classical repertoire by combining unknown treasures in specially curated recital programmes.

Highlights of previous seasons include recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and L’Auditori Barcelona, as well as the Aldeburgh Festival, Leeds Lieder Festival, Schubertíada a Vilabertran, Oxford Lieder Festival, Andermatt Music, Zermatt Festival and Schumannfest Düsseldorf. He has performed alongside Dame Felicity Lott, Manuel Walser, Äneas Humm, Jessica Niles, Milan Siljanov, Felix Gygli, Franziska Heinzen, Krešimir Stražanac, Valerie Eickhoff, and Liam Bonthrone.

The debut album with Franziska Heinzen on SoloMusica celebrating 100 years of LES SIX was musically and conceptually highly praised by the press. Their second album celebrating WOMEN COMPOSERS from the romantic to the contemporary periods was long-listed for