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As a soloist, Berman was awarded the Dutch Prize of Excellence, the first prize in the Gaudeamus Competition for interpreters of contemporary music, the Friends of the Concertgebouw Award and four first prizes at competitions for young soloists. He performs in Israel, Europe and the United States, as a soloist and in chamber music. Current collaborations include flautist Abbie de Quant (since 1970), Duo 4 with pianist Meir Wiesel, the Tamar Piano Trio and duos with several vocalists; past partnerships include Duo Beer Sheva with the late pianist Sara Fuxon. Berman was a soloist with many Dutch and Israeli orchestras. He often records for CDs and radio and television programs. In 2004-2006 he also plays the piano on-stage in the remake of Hanoch Levin's You, Me and the Next War. In music, solo means to play or sing alone. ... The list of Gaudeamus leareates offers listings of first prize winners of the international Gaudeamus competitions. ... In the broadest sense, contemporary music is any music being written in the present day. ... concertgebouw The Concertgebouw is a concert hall in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. ... World map showing Europe Europe is one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europes borders. ... Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. ... Abbie de Quant is a renowned Dutch flautist. ... Hanoch Levin (December 18, 1943 - August 18, 1999), in Hebrew חנוך לוין, was an Israeli playwright, theater director, poet, and author. ...

Bart Berman studied piano with Jaap Spaanderman at the Amsterdam Academy of Music and complemented his piano education with Theo Bruins and a masterclass by Alfred Brendel. He taught piano at the music academies of Rotterdam and Arnhem and edited publications of the Israel Music Institute. He continues to teach and coach at masterclasses and workshops. Jacob Hendrik Bastiaan (Jaap) Spaanderman (Gouda, October 17, 1896 - Amsterdam, 19??) was a Dutch pianist, cellist, conductor and educator. ... Theo Bruins (Arnhem, November 25, 1929 - Haarlem, January 8, 1993) was a Dutch pianist and composer. ... Alfred Brendel Alfred Brendel (born January 5, 1931) is an Austrian pianist, born in Czechoslovakia. ... Arnhem is a municipality and a city in the east of the Netherlands, located on the Lower Rhine, and the capital of the Gelderland province. ... The Israel Music Institute (IMI) is the only publicly-owned music publishing house in Israel. ...

Berman studied composition with Bertus van Lier and with Wouter van den Berg. He has composed many original works, including cadenzas to all piano concerti by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and second piano parts to be played alongside original compositions by Muzio Clementi and Daniel Steibelt. Most noted are his completions to Schubert's unfinished piano sonatas and J.S. Bach's Art of Fugue. Wouter Jan van den Berg was a Dutch piano educator and composer. ... Musical composition is: an original piece of music the structure of a musical piece the process of creating a new piece of music // A musical composition A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance... A cadenza is usually now taken to mean a portion near the end of a movement of a concerto in which the orchestra stops playing, leaving the soloist to play alone in free time (without a strict, regular pulse). ... A piano concerto is a concerto for solo piano and orchestra. ... It has been suggested that Papa Haydn be merged into this article or section. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart; January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) is among the most significant and enduringly popular composers of European classical music. ... Ludwig van Beethoven by Carl Jäger (date unknown). ... Muzio Clementi (January 24, 1752 – March 10, 1832) was a classical composer, and acknowledged as the first to write specifically for the piano. ... Daniel Steibelt (c. ... A piano sonata is a sonata written for unaccompanied piano. ... Bach redirects here. ... The Art of Fugue or The Art of the Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV 1080, is an unfinished work by Johann Sebastian Bach composed in 1748-1749 and published after his death in 1750. ...

Selected discography

Solo and duo albums

• Franz Schubert: (Un)finished Piano Sonatas
• Franz Schubert: Music for Piano Four Hands
• Bart Berman, piano: Vriend, Hekster, Loevendie, De Vries, Kleinbussink
• Kibbutz Composers: Piano Music for Two and Four Hands
• Duo 4 Live: Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Clementi, Bizet

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Duo participation

• Frank Martin: Chamber Music
• Chaya Arbel: More Works
• Tsippi Fleischer: Israel at Fifty
• Rachel Galinne: Uneginotai Nenagen
• Gabriel Iranyi: Bird Of Wonder

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Other participation

• George Antheil: Ballet mécanique (Holland Festival production)
• Peter Schat: To You (Holland Festival production)
• Serge Prokofiev: Favorite Orchestral Suites
• Meir Mindel: Tamar

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Performances at international events

• 2006 Upper Galilee Music Days, Kfar Blum, Israel
• 2001 International Opera Workshop, Tel Aviv
• 1998 2nd International Ethnomusicology Conference, Jerusalem
• 1997 Musica Da Camera Festival, Tel Aviv
• 1994 Israel Festival, Jerusalem
• 1989 Upper Galilee Music Days, Kfar Blum, Israel
• 1987 Rhine Music Days, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 1987 Israel Festival, Jerusalem
• 1983 George Crumb Retrospective, Tel Aviv
• 1981 Bach Marathon, Tel Aviv
• 1980 ISCM World Music Days, Tel Aviv
• 1974 ISCM World Music Days, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1974 Holland Festival, Amsterdam
• 1972 Holland Festival, Amsterdam
• 1972 Östersund Festival, Sweden
• 1972 Dutch-English Music Days, London, United Kingdom
• 1970 Musical Fall of Como, Italy
• 1968 Holland Days, Dijon University, France

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Selected composition

• Duo in Mediterranean Style for violin and viola (1957)
• Christmas Song on a text by Bertus van Lier for Choir a cappella (1957)
• String quartet (1958) (premiered by an ensemble of the Amsterdam Music Academy)
• Three New Canons on the Theme of J.S. Bach: The Musical Offering (1978) (publisher: Elsevier)
• Four Melodies for Piano (1960|1980) (publisher: Israel Music Institute)
• Birthday Bunch by Bart (1994)
• Film Music for The Staircase (1995)

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Cadenzas

• Castiglioni: Arabeschi for flute, piano and orchestra (1974) (premiered with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra)
• The Beethoven piano concerti (1966-1990) (premiered with Dutch orchestras)
• The Mozart solo, double and triple piano concerti (1970-1990)
• The Haydn piano concerti (1970-1990) (premiered with Dutch and Israeli orchestras)

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Completions

• J.S. Bach: The Art of Fugue (1970) (recorded for radio VPRO)
• Schubert: Unfinished Piano Sonatas (1976-1990) (recorded on double CD)
• Mozart: Unfinished Four Hands Piano Sonata K357 (1991) (recorded for Israel's Voice of Music)
• Glinka: Unfinished Viola Sonata (1999)
• Beethoven: Romance Cantabile for flute, bassoon, piano and orchestra (2001)

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Piano parts

• Second Piano Part for Daniel Steibelt: Sonatina Opus 33 in C (1981)
• Right Hand Piano Part for J.S. Bach: Sonatas in E Minor and E Major (1988)
• Second Piano Part for Clementi: Six Sonatinas Opus 36 (1995) (two sonatinas recorded on CD)

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External links

• Bart Berman, pianist
• Bart Berman, composition
• Notes on Franz Schubert by Bart Berman