Dinner & Piano Concert by Alexander Ullman

Enjoy fine surf & turf cuisine and then dive into the world of Alexander Ullman, renowned British pianist all while absorbing the atmosphere of the vibrant Gallery Lounge of Art Ovation Hotel.

About Alexander Ullman

Lauded for his “powerful musical intellect and effortless technical facility” The Scotsman, British pianist Alexander Ullman has captivated audiences and critics worldwide with the depth of his musical vision and his elegant mastery over the keyboard.

Recent highlights include his return to Wigmore Hall and Klavierfest Ruhr, concerto appearances with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta (under Ola Rudner), Sofia Philharmonic, and Filharmonie Brno (both under Dennis Russell Davies) and his debut at Hamburg Elbphilharmonie. He has also recently performed with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and given recitals in Germany (Munich, Bayreuth, Weimar and Berlin), Austria (Liszt Festival Raiding and Vienna Konzerthaus), Hungary (Liszt Academy Budapest), the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Georgia, Mexico, France, Spain, Korea (Seoul Arts Center) and his native UK.

This season Ullman debuts with the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra (Darrell Ang) in Chengdu and the Mozarteum Orchestra (Patrick Hahn) at the Salzburg Grosser Saal, returns to the Sofia Philharmonic, performs a two-piano recital with Teo Gheorghiu at the Freiburg Festival in Switzerland and gives recitals in the UK, Italy and the Netherlands.In Spring 2019, Ullman’s first album on Rubicon, featuring Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, Prokofiev’s Six Pieces from Cinderella, as well as Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Firebird suites, received rave reviews. In spring 2022, the label released a second album featuring Franz Liszt's Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Litton, as well as his Piano Sonata in B minor. 2025 sees the release of his next solo album of music by Edvard Grieg entitled “Dreamworld”.The winner of the 2017 International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht, Ullman has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Budapest Radio Orchestra and Korean Symphony Orchestra, as well as the New Jersey, Fort Worth and Montreal symphonies, working with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Giancarlo Guerrero, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Valentin Uryupin and Cristian Măcelaru. In the 17/18 season he closed the Lille Piano(s) Festival with Orchestre de Picardie under Jean-Claude Casadesus.He has performed at Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Gewandhaus (Leipzig), Kimmel Center (Philadelphia), Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Seoul Arts Center, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center and the NCPA in Beijing, and has been featured in the Nottingham and Oxford international piano series, on BBC Radio 3, France Musique and MDR Klassik. Chamber music highlights include performances at the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove (UK), Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany), the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades (France) and La Jolla Summerfest (US) with performers such as the Dover Quartet, violinists Barnabas Kelemen and Aleksey Semenenko, and cellist Michael Petrov.Ullman first came to international attention in 2011 after winning the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest. From 2014 to 2017 he was represented by Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT). Born in London, in 1991, he studied at the Purcell School, the Curtis Institute and the Royal College of Music, completing his Artist Diploma as the “Benjamin Britten Piano Fellow” in 2017 (awarded by the Philip Loubser Foundation). His teachers have included William Fong, Leon Fleisher, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Robert McDonald, Dmitri Alexeev, Ian Jones and Elisso Virsaladze.

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