RALPH VAN RAAT

Pianist and musicologist Ralph van Raat studied the piano with Ton Hartsuiker and Willem Brons at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, and Musicology at the University of Amsterdam. He concluded both studies with distinction in 2002 and 2003. Van Raat also studied with Claude Helffer (Paris), Liisa Pohjola (Helsinki), Ursula Oppens at Chicago’s Northwestern University and Pierre-Laurent Aimard at the Musikhochschule in Cologne. He has won, among other awards, second prize and Donemus-Prize (for Contemporary Music) of the Princess Christina Competition (1995); Stipend-Prize Darmstadt during the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt (1998); first prize of the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition (1999); Philip Morris Arts Award (2003); Elisabeth Everts Prize (2005); a Borletti-Buitoni Fellowship (2005); VSCD Classical Music Prize (2005), the Fortis MeesPierson Award of the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (2006) and the Classics Prize of the Dutch radio and television broadcaster NTR (2010). He appears as a recitalist and as a soloist with orchestras in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and in the United States. Ralph van Raat has been a Steinway Artist since 2003.

For more information, please go to www.ralphvanraat.com.

Interview with Ralph van Raat

Opening Doors: Ralph van Raat talks to Jeremy Siepmann

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Role: Classical Artist
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