{"id":583,"date":"2024-05-30T18:23:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unionvillemusic.org\/?page_id=583"},"modified":"2024-05-30T18:23:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:23:50","slug":"benjamin-smith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/unionvillemusic.org\/index.php\/benjamin-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"315\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/unionvillemusic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ben_New_Park-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unionvillemusic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ben_New_Park-edited.jpg 315w, https:\/\/unionvillemusic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ben_New_Park-edited-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/unionvillemusic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ben_New_Park-edited-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/unionvillemusic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ben_New_Park-edited-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Described as a \u201cthoughtful and immensely exciting performer\u201d with \u201cscintillating technique\u201d (Barrie Examiner), pianist&nbsp;<strong>Benjamin Smith<\/strong>&nbsp;has performed as soloist and chamber musician across Canada, the United States,&nbsp;and Mexico. He has been a laureate of numerous competitions,&nbsp;including&nbsp;the Virginia Waring International Piano Competition, and the CMC Stepping Stone Competition. Guest appearances include the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, the New Juilliard Ensemble, the Las Vegas Young Artists Orchestra, the Ontario Philharmonic, Orchestra London, the Burlington Symphony, and the Hart House Orchestra. As soloist,&nbsp;his&nbsp;repertoire&nbsp;includes&nbsp;several&nbsp;rarities, such as the Schoenberg&nbsp;and Schnittke piano&nbsp;concertos. Festival performances include repeat appearances at&nbsp;Toronto&nbsp;Summer Music, Music Niagara,&nbsp;and New Park (Ithaca, NY). American performances include recitals for the Texas Chopin Society and Chicago\u2019s Landowska Harpsichord Society. Recent seasons have seen two concerts in Carnegie Hall: once as soloist in Gershwin\u2019s Rhapsody In Blue with the Hart House Orchestra, and previously in recital with Canadian cellist Dongkyun An. A disc with Mr. An of Saint-Saens, Schumann, and Beethoven was released in December 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Devoting considerable time to chamber music, Ben has been heard nationally on CBC Music, as well as radio broadcasts in the UK. He has partnered in recital with a myriad of renowned artists, as well as with ensembles such as the Penderecki, Cecilia, Annex, and Tokai string quartets. For two seasons he performed as one-third of the Israelievitch-Smith-Ahn piano trio, and has recently been playing as a member of the Andromeda piano trio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Smith currently serves&nbsp;on the faculties of both the Glenn Gould School (GGS) and the Taylor Young Artist Academy at the Royal Conservatory. &nbsp;His principal teachers&nbsp;have&nbsp;included Andrea Battista, James Anagnoson, Julian Martin, and Christina Dahl. Along with a DMA from Stony Brook University, he holds a Bachelors degree from the University of Toronto, an Artist Diploma from the GGS, and a Masters from Juilliard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Described as a \u201cthoughtful and immensely exciting performer\u201d with \u201cscintillating technique\u201d (Barrie Examiner), pianist&nbsp;Benjamin Smith&nbsp;has performed as soloist and chamber musician across Canada, the United States,&nbsp;and Mexico. He has been a laureate of numerous competitions,&nbsp;including&nbsp;the Virginia Waring International Piano Competition, &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/unionvillemusic.org\/index.php\/benjamin-smith\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-583","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionvillemusic.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionvillemusic.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionvillemusic.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionvillemusic.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionvillemusic.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unionvillemusic.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/unionvillemusic.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/583\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionvillemusic.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}