Malcolm Bilson

He has devoted the past 40 years to the study and performance of late 18th and early 19th century Viennese keyboard literature on pianos of the period, both copies and originals. He has recorded all the Mozart Piano Concertos with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists for Deutsche Grammophon, the Mozart Piano-Violin Sonatas with Sergiu Luca and the Beethoven Piano-Cello Sonatas with Anner Bylsma for Nonesuch Records.  He has also recorded the complete Mozart and Schubert Piano Sonatas for Hungaroton, as well as the complete Piano Sonatas of Beethoven in collaboration with six of his artist-pupils for Claves Records. He plays and gives master classes all over the world, and is Professor Emeritus of Music at Cornell University, Adjunct Professor at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York and the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Hungary.  He holds an Honorary Doctorate from Bard College, is the recipient of the James Smithson Award from the Smithsonian Institution and the Order of the Golden Cross from the government of Hungary.