User:Sebastian Forster

Sebastian Forster (Buenos Aires, May 26, 1975) is classical trained pianist born in Argentina.

Studied in Buenos Aires with Maestro Aldo Antognazzi, former pupil of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and participated in master classes in Hungary at the Liszt Academy of Budapest. Performing since the age of ten, he has been a featured soloist in Argentina, Uruguay, The Netherlands, Chezc Republic, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Chile, Germany, Ukraine, and USA.

He lived most of his life in Holland, where he has regularly performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. His debut at the Concertgebouw with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, performing Mozart Piano Concerto N 23. Since then, his international career includes tours with the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Berliner Symphoniker, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, the Linz Bruckner Orchestra, the Budapest Concert Orchestra Mav, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, and the Flemish Radio Orchestra. At the Sala Verdi in Milan, he gave Solo Piano Recitals that included works by Alberto Ginastera, Liszt, Prokofiev, and Mozart.

In Buenos Aires he opened the season of the Asociation Wagneriana Serie at the  Teatro Colón and he performed as a soloist with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires, under Franz-Paul Decker, at the Colon Theatre Filarmonica Series and with the National Symphony Orchestra of Buenos Aires under its principal chief conductor, Pedro Ignacio Calderon. He recorded Rachmaninoff's Second and Third Piano Concertos with the Radio State Ukrainian Orchestra in Kiev.

He is the founder member of the “Trio Fundacion Astor Piazzolla " which toured Belgium, The Netherlands, USA and Argentina, including concerts in Holland , with the Argentinean Mayo Chamber Orchestra, and a CD released by "World Connection" Seal, with Piazzolla's Nacar Concerto World Premiere. He  opened the 47th Chopin Festival in Marienbad on 2006. Also was invited for a recital at the Endless Mountain Music Festival in Pennsylvania, at the Harvard Club of New York, at the 50th anniversary celebration for Edelman World Public Relations Firm at the Historical Society in NYC, and for the Raul Wallenberg Foundation at the East Park Synagogue in NYC, commemorating the life of Carl Lutz, a Swiss diplomat that saved many lives in the Holocaust.

He has taught at the Piano School of NYC since 2005.