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MARK VINER, born in 1989, he began playing at the age of 11 before being awarded a scholarship two years later to enter the Purcell School of Music where he studied with Tessa Nicholson for the next five years. Another scholarship then took him to the Royal College of Music where he studied with the late Niel Immelman for six years, graduating with first class honours in a Bachelor of Music degree in 2011 and a distinction in Master of Performance in 2013. After winning 1st prize at the Alkan-Zimmerman International Piano Competition in Athens, Greece, in 2012, his career has brought him across much of Europe as well as North and South America. While festival invitations include appearances at the Raritäten der Klaviermusik, Husum, and Auf schwarzen und weißen Tasten, Bremen, Germany, the Indian Summer in Levoča, Slovakia, the Festival Chopiniana, Buenos Aires, Argentina and the Cheltenham Music Festival and Oxford Lieder Festival in the United Kingdom, radio broadcasts include recitals and interviews aired on Deutschlandfunk together with frequent appearances on BBC Radio 3.
His acclaimed Wigmore Hall début in 2018, under the auspices of the Keyboard Charitable Trust, confirmed his reputation as one of today’s indisputable torchbearers of the Romantic Revival .He is particularly renowned for his already extensive discography on the Piano Classics label which includes discs devoted to the music of Alkan, Blumenfeld, Chaminade, Liszt and Thalberg, all of which have garnered exceptional critical acclaim. His most important project to date is a survey of the complete piano music of Alkan, the first of its kind which is expected to run to some 18 CDs in length. Aside from a busy schedule of teaching and performing, he is also active as a published transcriber and writer. His advocacy for the music of Charles-Valentin Alkan led to his election as Chairman of the Alkan Society in 2014.