Randall Hodgkinson

Randall Hodgkinson achieved recognition as a winner of the International American Music Competition for pianists sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. He has appeared frequently as recitalist and as soloist with major orchestras, including those of Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, Buffalo, and the American Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the Orchestra of Illinois, the New England Philharmonic, and the Newton Symphony Orchestra. Festival appearances have included Tanglewood, Blue Hill (ME), BargeMusic, Chestnut Hill Concerts (Madison, CT), the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, and the Santa Fe Music Festival. Hodgkinson studied at the Curtis Institute and the New England Conservatory and since 1983 has been a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society. While a member of Boston Musica Viva, he performed throughout the United States and Europe, and recorded for Nonesuch records. His solo CD Petrouchka and Other Prophesies received a double five-star rating from BBC Magazine. Other recordings include the live, world premiere performance of Gardner Read’s Piano Concerto with the Eastman Philharmonic Orchestra, Morton Gould’s Piano Concerto with the Albany Symphony, the Beethoven cello sonatas with former BSO cellist Jonathan Miller, and the complete works for cello and piano of Leo Ornstein with cellist Joshua Gordon. A member of the piano faculties of New England Conservatory and Wellesley College, Hodgkinson also performs four-hand and two-piano literature in duo-recitals with his wife, Leslie Amper.