Carson Becke has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician, including performances in Canada
(National Arts Centre, Four Seasons Centre, Integral House), England (the Wigmore Hall, St. Martin in the Fields, St. Georges Bristol,
Steinway Hall, Winchester Cathedral), Scotland, Ireland (Canadian Embassy), Germany, Switzerland (Verbier Festival Academy), Poland,
Latvia (National Radio) and Trinidad and Tobago. For the past three summers he has been artist in residence and then artistic director of
“Festival Pontiac Enchante” in Luskville, Quebec.
Carson was born in Ottawa, Canada, and began learning the piano at the age of five with his Great Grandmother, Mary Mackey.
In 2005, he moved to the UK in order to study at the Purcell School of Music, where he studied piano with Ilana Davids and
composition with Jonothan Cole. After graduating from the Purcell School, he studied on scholarship at the Royal Academy
of Music in London with Tatiana Sarkissova. He completed his Bachelors degree in June 2011.
Since moving to the UK, Carson has won a number of awards and prizes, including the top prize in the
S.V. Rachmaninov Piano Competition (2006, Russia), 1st Prize in the BBC young composers of the year competition (2007),
and the Harold Craxton Chamber Music Competition, Francis Earle, and Dorothy Bryant awards at the Royal Academy of Music.
He was also the recipient of a BBC performing arts fund bursary scholarship in 2007.
As a composer, his composition “Three Nocturnes for Orchestra” has been performed by the Purcell Symphony Orchestra in the UK,
and the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra in Canada, and has also been heard on BBC Radio Three. A smaller composition,
“John Keats: On Death” was recorded by members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and has been performed in the BBC Proms.
Currently, Carson is teaching in London, England, and is studying privately with Tatiana Sarkissova.
Upcoming performance: Recital at Festival Pontiac Enchante on March 10, 2012.
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