Jacob Bogaart

Jacob Bogaart , a Dutch classical pianist and painter, received his pianistic and conductor’s training at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He left the institute after four years with the highest remarks and continued his piano studies successively with Carlo Zecchi in Rome, Magda Tagliaferro in Paris, whose assistant he became, as well as with Rafael de Silva and Claudio Arrau.

At the same time pursuing his career as a soloist, after being awarded in three international piano-competitions, he appeared on several occasions at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam as well as in other cultural centers, including New York, Washington, London, Paris, Rome, Frankfurt, Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, the Styriarte Festival, the Autumn Festival in Warsaw and the Aarhus Numus Festival for contemporary music.

He has made recordings for radio and television, both as a soloist and as a member of a chamber music ensemble. He has performed with several conductors as Sergiu Commisiona, Gaetano Delogu, Václav Neumann, Jan Krenz, Edo de Waart, Roberto Benzi, Jean Fournet and Ernest Bour, with whom he recorded all of Beethoven’s piano concertos.

He also worked together with ensembles as the Alban Berg Quartet, the Austrian string Quartet, The Koeckert Quartet, the Kodaly Quartet, the Orpheus Quartet and the Raphael Quartet. He is the pianist of the Schubert Consort and the Johannes-Brahms Pianoquartet and a permanent partner of several instrumentalists like Joan Berkhemer, Herre-Jan Stegenga and singers i.a. Elisabeth von Magnus.
For many years he has been the manager of the music-recording department at the dutch radio in Hilversum. As artistic advisor he has been connected to a.o. the Utrecht Highschool for Music.

Apart from recordings of the international concert-repertoire, his special interest for dutch pianomusic resulted in the release of several records and over seventy titles of dutch piano music recorded for radio.

Discography (choice)
* George Crumb: Celestial mechanics (Attacca Babel 1987)
* Schäfer: Piano quintet (NM Classics)
* Nederlandse pianomuziek rond 1900: (Attacca Babel 1981)
* Johannes Brahms: Symphony 3 (Two pianos) (RN Classics 1996)
* Haydn: Original canzonettas (Challenge Classics 2002)
* Kurt Weill: Tonight (Preiser Records 2006)
* Russian Music Recital: (Arcobaleno 1990)
* Cesar Auguste Franck: Two pianos (Koch Schwann 1991)
* Dutch Songs: Elisabeth von Magnus (Documenta Musica 2008)
* Beethoven: Pianoconcertos 3 & 4 (RKO/Bour 1985

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