With KBS Symphony Orchestra, Yoel Levi conducting / Beethoven, Concerto n° 1
8th Piano Folies Festival / Chagall, the Sound of colors, with projection of animated movie directed by Mikhail Rudy / 1st part: Cage, Ligetti, Glass, Kurtag, Scriabin
La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival / Recital Schumann / Brahms / Schubert
La Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival / Beethoven, Concerto n° 1 / Sinfonia Varsovia, Barry Douglas conductings
Their new record with Deutsche Grammophon dedicated to works by Stravinsky and Debussy will be released in November 2016.
FESTIVAL SAKHAROV / Recital with animated films by Alexandre Alexeiev (pinscreen) and Norman McLaren
Vers la flamme by Scriabin / Presented within the exhibition « Radical Atoms » / With installation by Arotin & Serghei
November 2016 – Release of Katia & Marielle Labèque, Une Vie à quatre mains an interview book by Renaud Machart, Buchet-Chastel editor.
http://www.buchetchastel.fr/katia-et-marielle-labeque-renaud-machart-9782283027226
October 2016 – After Celtic Reflections, Barry is joined by three traditional Irish musicians for this second volume of his arrangements of celtic tunes.
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2010934
Program includes works by Bach/Busino,Mendelssohn, Franck, Chopin & Liszt. It has gained outstanding rewiews and several awards. We love without limit these shimmering colours, that touch of infinite delicacy, a sign of a rare talent. (Classica magazine)
Benjamin was awarded the first Ronnie and Lawrence Ackman Classical Piano Prize at the New York Philharmonic. This includes an invitation with the New York Phil in April 2018 and chamber music with Philharmonic musicians.
Release of sixth and final volume in Barry DOUGLAS’ survey of Brahms’s output for solo piano, a project that represents a triumph of Brahmsian thoughts
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2010903