Featured Artists of the
Chamber Music Society
of Fort Worth

Stephen Beus
Piano

Described by the Fort Worth Star Telegram as a pianist of "artistic instinct and natural charisma," Stephen Beus is recognized as one of the most promising pianists of his generation. In the space of four months, Mr. Beus won first prize in the 2006 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, first place in the Vendome Prize International Competition (Lisbon) and he was awarded the Max I. Allen Fellowship of the American Pianists Association (Indianapolis).

His 2007-2008 season includes appearances with the Indianapolis, Salt Lake, Walla Walla, Yakima (WA) and Muncie (IN) Symphonies and he will perform in Casablanca and Marrakech with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Morocco. Mr. Beus will also be appearing in solo performances in the Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot (Paris), San Carlo (Naples), Merkin Hall, as well as in Miami, Nevada City (CA), Phoenix and St. George. In addition, Mr. Beus is scheduled to perform for the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth and with the Jupiter Players in New York City.

Among the competitions Mr. Beus has won are the Junior Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition (age 14) and the pre-college division of the Corpus Christi International Young Artists Competition (age 15). At age 17 he was the national high school winner of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) and won the collegiate level of the same competition four years later, for which he received a Steinway Model M. In 2004 Mr. Beus came in first at the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition and subsequently performed in Carnegie Hall. He has recorded on the Endeavor Classics Label and will release a CD on the Harmonia Mundi label in the Fall of 2007.

The fourth of eight children, Mr. Beus was born and raised in Othello, WA and started lessons at age five. Four years later he made his orchestral debut playing Mozart’s Concerto K. 488. Mr. Beus holds degrees from Whitman College and The Juilliard School where his teachers have included Leonard Richter and Robert McDonald. For more details, visit www.stephenbeus.com.

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