Chamber Arts Series
Leon Bates
Thursday, September 25, 2008
As one of America's leading pianists, Leon Bates has earned for himself a place on the international concert circuit. His performance schedule includes dates across the United States, in Canada, Italy, France, Austria, Ireland, England as well as Africa. He is invited to perform on the major concert stages around the world and audiences and critics find his musical spirit to possess all the elements of greatness.
Mr. Bates has performed with many of the major U.S. symphonies such as
the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Symphony, the New York Philharmonic,
the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Atlanta
Symphony, to name a few.
In Europe, he has performed with the Vienna Symphony, the Basel Symphony,
the Radio Orchestra of Dublin, the Strasbourg Symphony, and the Orchestra
Sinfonica dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, among others. Whether
in recital or as a soloist with orchestra, his praises are enumerated in
many different languages--but they are all in agreement on one point: Leon
Bates is a major artist and one of America's best.