Jazz Articles about Benjamin Frith

Benjamin Frith: Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 5

by C. Michael Bailey
February 2, 2009

Pianist Benjamin Frith was born in South Yorkshire and from an early age, he studied with Fanny Waterman. At 14 he won the National Concerto Competition, followed by the Mozart Memorial Prize, the award for Young Concert Artists. His international career was further enhanced winning a Gold Medal at the 1989 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Israel. Naxos tagged Frith for the fifth installment of Scarlatti's Complete Keyboard Sonatas.

Unlikely as it may sound, American Ragtime composer Scott ...