Benjamin Beilman, violin, and Steven Osborne, piano
March 6 @ 7:30 pm
$5 – $50
Scottish pianist Steven Osborne makes a long-awaited return to Friends of Chamber Music’s series, this time with the electrifying young violinist Benjamin Beilman. Thursday, March 6, 2025, 7:30 PM, Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Avenue, Denver. Beilman’s remarkable talent has garnered him numerous awards, as well as a spot among the youngest faculty members of the renowned Curtis Institute of Music. Joined by Steven Osborne—a Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist of the Year—the duo will perform some of the classical world’s most prized works, including Clara Schumann’s 3 Romances and Brahms’s Violin Sonata in G Major. The program concludes with the A Major Violin Sonata by César Franck, a revered work in the chamber repertoire.
Tickets: Tickets are available through the Newman Center Box Office, newmantix.com, or 303-871-7720. Tickets are $50 for general admission, $15 for guests 30 and younger; $5 for students (with ID). Livestream tickets are also available for this event.
About Benjamin Beilman: One of the youngest artists to be appointed to the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music, Beilman is the recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a London Music Masters Award. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ida Kavafian and Pamela Frank, and with Christian Tetzlaff at the Kronberg Academy. “Playing with rich sound and plenty of brilliance, Beilman conveyed both dreamy lyricism and heated intensity” (The New York Times).
About Steven Osborne: Osborne’s numerous awards include The Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist of the Year, two BBC Music Magazine Awards, and two Gramophone Awards. Osborne was born in Scotland and studied at St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh and the Royal Northern College of Music. He is Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Patron of the Lammermuir Festival, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2014. “Osborne is a poet of the piano. He is an introspective, thoughtful musician.” (South Florida Classical Review).
About Friends of Chamber Music: Friends of Chamber Music is the premier presenter of chamber music in the Denver area. For more than 70 years, FCM has presented an annual series of concerts, including string quartets, piano ensembles, soloists, and mixed ensembles. Friends of Chamber Music is also committed to music education for youth, engaging both local and visiting artists to provide concerts, residencies, and master classes at Denver area schools. Visit www.friendsofchambermusic.com for more information.
