The Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson is an active soloist and chamber musician. In 2022, he performed at Wigmore Hall, as a concerto soloist with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, in chamber music with colleagues such as Alina Ibragimova, Steven Isserlis, Viktoria Mullova, and Pieter Wispelwey, and as a member of the Nash Ensemble.
Alasdair is known as an unpretentious musician and fearless programmer. He champions a broad repertoire with his particular areas of interest: Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Schumann, solo and chamber music by Gabriel Fauré, Bartók, and Janáček, concertos by Bach, Bartók, Britten, Fauré, Hindemith, Messiaen, and Mozart, as well as contemporary works, including Thomas Adès’s piano quintet, George Benjamin’s Shadowlines, and Harrison Birtwistle’s Harrison’s Clocks. Future plans include a new piano concerto written for him by Helena Winkelman.
His recent recordings include a solo piano recital, Aus Wien, on Pentatone featuring music by Schumann, Schönberg, Ravel, Korngold, and Schubert, and Schubert works for violin and fortepiano with Viktoria Mullova on Signum. He has also recorded CDs with both solo works and chamber music on BIS, Champs Hill, Chandos, Claves, Evil Penguin, Onyx, Pentatone, and SOMM.
Alasdair teaches solo piano at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and is a regular mentor at the London-based Chamber Studio. Between 2012 and 2018, he was the founder and artistic director of Musique à Marsac, and since 2019, he has been the artistic director of the Chamber Music Festival in Ernen, Switzerland.
Frontside Chamber Music Association has existed since 2019 and is largely driven by volunteer efforts, but we are highly dependent on additional financial sponsors and fundings. All contributions are used to engage fantastic musicians, rents of venues and all other things that make the festival a magical experience.
If you are interested in chamber music that goes beyond the ordinary, you should become a member! As a member, you are invited to the association’s annual meeting and participate in electing the board. You can also suggest activities for the association, thereby influencing future festivals and other events we organize. You also have the opportunity to volunteer during the festival, allowing you to enjoy wonderful chamber music without paying an entrance fee.
How do I become a member and support Frontside? Submit your information in the form below and pay the membership fee, and we will register you as a member immediately. Please also indicate which chamber music you love the most. Together with your personal information, this helps us better understand who our members are. How we handle your information can be read under the GDPR section.
You renew your membership every fall term – we’ll remind you! Alternatively, you can purchase a lifetime membership and thus become a permanent member with a one-time fee.
If you join as a new member in the spring, your payment also covers the following year’s membership.
How do I do it and what does it cost? You can pay the membership fee to Bankgiro 5318-7969 or via Swish 123 356 63 95. Always include your name and, if paying via bankgiro, your mobile number.
Welcome as a member!
For requests, feedback, and additional information, fill in your message in the form at the bottom or send an email to info@frontside-festival.se
The General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, came into force within the EU on May 25, 2018.
How does Frontside handle its membership register? In our membership register, we store your name, address details, email address, phone number, and birth year. If you leave the association, we will retain your information for a maximum of seven (7) years before deleting it.
Who has access to my information? We register your details digitally in our membership register. Only you (first party) and individuals with trusted roles in the association (second party) have access to your information. No information is shared with third parties.
You can request to see what information we have collected about you at any time.
Validity? By becoming a member of the association, you enter into an agreement regarding which information about you can be stored with us and who has access to this information, as described above. This agreement is valid indefinitely, as long as you are a member of the Frontside Chamber Music Association.
Do I have the right to have my information deleted? According to GDPR, you have the right to have your information deleted, but you will also lose your membership in the association. To request this, send an email to info@frontside-festival.se and ask for your stored information to be deleted.
