Mark Bebbington is a leading British pianist who has achieved international recognition for his adventurous programming and for his championing of the music of our time. He is being enthusiastically featured on Radio 3 and is getting marvellous reviews from top critics for his live and CD performances.
Mark has established a particular reputation as an exceptionally refined and elegant exponent of French music and over recent seasons he has given critically acclaimed recitals both in London and Paris that have laid special emphasis on French nineteenth and twentieth century pianistic traditions. His Erik Satie café concert toured festivals in this country during Spring 2002 before he gave two sold out performances at 'le chat blanc' cabaret club in Paris.
He has worked with leading conductors, notably Sir George Solti and Norman Del Mar, appeared both as concerto soloist and recitalist on BBC Television and Radio and on Radio France and toured extensively throughout Central and Northern Europe, the Far East and North Africa. He has also appeared as soloist with the London Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras at the Barbican and Royal Festival Hall.
Last autumn, Mark began a major London South Bank and St. John's, Smith Square five-recital retrospective of the British Piano Sonata in the twentieth century. The series, which is the first of its kind in London for over fifty years, mines a seam of pianistic riches.
Unsurprisingly, his Huntingdon Hall programme is a French/English one: well-known Debussy preludes, including 'The Girl with the Flaxen Hair', an inspiring work by Franck and some much neglected British music which is going down wonderfully with the public.
"He is truly a remarkable pianist, with an immense range of colour, a subtle use of the pedal, and an ability to project the composers' immense climaxes with clarity as well as power." – The Times, February 2004