Frank Peters

Frank Peters studied at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Jan Wijn and graduated with highest distinction. Additionally, he took masterclasses with Peter Feuchtwanger, Elizabeth Leonskaja, Gyorgy Sebök, Hans Leygraf and Boris Berman. After winning the Dutch national Berlage Competition in 1985, Frank Peters has performed in all major Dutch concert halls. He has given many radio recitals, concertized in all countries of 14 Europe, Russia, the U.S.A., China and Australia and has played as a soloist with the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Symphonic Orchestra, the Residential Orchestra The Hague and the Arnhem Symphony Orchestra, performing piano concertos of Bach, Beethoven, Ravel, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Schnittke and Hanna Kulenty. He was prizewinner of the International Eduard Flipse Competition in Rotterdam, where he was also rewarded the special prize of the Dutch press. In 1992 he was prizewinner of the International Prokofiev Competition in Saint Petersburg. Frank Peters has also appeared on Dutch television with a performance of Rachmaninovs first piano concerto. In 1996 he was nominated for the Culture Prize of the Dutch National Broadcasting Cooperation. In 2003 he gave the European première of Sorabji’s extremely complicated piano quintet with the Belgium Quatuor Danel and in 2006 the world première of Hanna Kulenty’s 3rd piano concerto which she dedicated to him. At this moment Frank Peters is professor piano at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the ArtEZ conservatory in Arnhem and Zwolle. He made various CD recordings with contemporary music and compositions of Dutch and British composers. Frank is a member of the Hexagon Ensemble and Ensemble MP21. Frank Peters gives frequently masterclasses in France, Belgium and China.

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