Steven Beck
A specialist in contemporary music, pianist Steven Beck has collaborated with a long list of prominent composers and ensembles. He also performs traditional repertory, including Bach's Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, which he plays annually at Brooklyn, New York's floating venue Bargemusic.
Beck was born on January 21, 1978, in Springfield, Virginia. He attended the Juilliard School in New York, studying with Seymour Lipkin, Peter Serkin, and Bruce Brubaker. His debut came with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, and he toured Japan as a soloist with the New York Symphonic Ensemble. Beck has appeared as a piano soloist with top orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Mariinsky Orchestra in St. Petersburg, Russia. He became a familiar figure on the New York contemporary music scene, performing with such groups as Speculum Musicae and the New York New Music Ensemble; he is a member of The Knights (formerly The Knights of the Many-Sided Table), of Future in REverse (FIRE), and, with Susan Grace, of the piano duo Quattro Mani. In 2003, Beck made his recording debut on the Sequitur label, performing Elliott Carter's Double Concerto with harpsichordist Sara Laimon.
Beck is best known for his work in contemporary music, and he has worked with major composers, including Carter, Pierre Boulez, and George Crumb. During the 2011-2012 season, he appeared at New York's Guggenheim Museum, performing works by Charles Wuorinen. Beck also plays traditional repertory; one of his last appearances prior to the coronavirus pandemic that began in 2020 was with the New York Philharmonic in Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals. His recordings -- which by 2022 numbered some 40 items -- have mainly focused on contemporary music, but he made several appearances in the Cascade label's complete series of the works of Beethoven. Beck recorded Peter Lieberson's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Odense Symphony Orchestra in Denmark in 2014 for the Bridge label. He has continued to be associated with that label, issuing a solo album of George Walker's Five Piano Sonatas there in 2022.
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18 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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George Walker: Piano Sonatas
Classical - Released by Bridge Records on 7/01/2022
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J.S. Bach, Boulez, Aho & Prokofiev: Flute Sonatas & Solo Works
Brandon Patrick George, Steven Beck, Jacob Greenberg
Classical - Released by Profil on 18/09/2020
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Scott Lee: Through the Mangrove Tunnels
JACK Quartet, Steven Beck, Russell Lacy
Chamber Music - Released by Panoramic Recordings on 13/11/2020
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Ukrainian Masters
Chamber Music - Released by Naxos on 23/02/2024
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A Tribute: Music by Wuorinen & J.S. Bach
Classical - Released by Bridge Records on 20/01/2023
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Transformations
Elizabeth Chang, Steven Beck, Alberto Parrini
Classical - Released by Albany Records on 2/04/2021
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David Post: Sonatas & Other Works
Alyssa Wang, Steven Beck, Samuel Magill, Ruoting Li, Beth Levin
Classical - Released by Centaur Records, Inc. on 16/07/2021
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Lieberson: Viola Concerto & Piano Concerto No. 3
Steven Beck, Roberto Diaz, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Scott Yoo
Classical - Released by Bridge Records on 2/06/2014
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Louis Karchin: Dark Mountains / Distant Lights
Jacqueline Leclair, Miranda Cuckson, Steven Beck
Classical - Released by New Focus Recordings on 15/03/2019
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Michael Shapiro: Passages
Classical - Released by MICHAEL SHAPIRO on 15/09/2022
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Sonatas & Myths
Chamber Music - To be released on 17/05/2024 by Bridge Records
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Andrew Rudin: 3 String Sonatas
Sam Magill, Brett Deubner, Miranda Cuckson, Beth Levin, Marcantonio Barone, Steven Beck
Chamber Music - Released by Centaur Records, Inc. on 13/01/2015
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Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108
Chamber Music - Released by Epidemic Classics on 19/04/2024
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