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Ian Hobson (born 7 August 1952) is an English pianist, conductor and teacher. His pianistic repertoire spans the baroque to the contemporary, but he specialises in the Romantic repertoire.
Ian Hobson was born in Wolverhampton in 1952. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Yale University in the United States. His teachers included Claude Frank, Ralph Kirkpatrick and Menahem Pressler.
Hobson made his London debut in 1979. He won silver medals in the Arthur Rubinstein and Vienna-Beethoven competitions and first prize in the 1981 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. His United States debut came in 1983,...
Sounds of Sputnik is headed by Roma Kalitkin, whose signature sound mixes post-rock, shoegaze and dream pop with a slight kickback to noise pop. He draws inspiration from My Bloody Valentine, Jesus and Mary Chain, Ride, Sonic Youth, Happy Mondays, and Slowdive, although the musical semblance of this project seems closer to the style of Mogwai, Air Formation, Hammock, Airiel, Jesu, Highspire, and The Twilight Sad.
Dubbing himself a “white crow”, the music he makes has always gone against trends within his home country of Russia, both as a solo artist and for the 20 years he played in various...
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