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Hyperion Knight plays the Chopin Nocturne in Eb
Hyperion Knight is a pianist known for the diversity of his repertoire, he is equally at home in serious classics and popular standards. Hyperion’s recordings range from Beethoven to the Beatles, Ragtime to Rachmaninoff, and in addition to regular appearances with orchestras across the United States, he has been a featured entertainer at Manhattan’s Rainbow Room and Essex House. Covering timeless melodies in all styles, he was also recently featured in a Public Television special entitled Hyperion Plays Great Piano Classics, a TV program that began with works of Chopin and Liszt and concluded with songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Queen.
Hyperion was born in Berkeley, California and graduated at age 19 from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. By the age of 22 he had received both a Master’s degree and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and was awarded the Arthur Loesser Prize upon graduation Hyperion now lives in New York City where he studied with members of the Juilliard faculty and made his New York concerto debut playing the Saint-Saëns PianoConcerto #1.
Hyperion has made a specialty of virtuoso piano transcriptions in the tradition of Liszt and Horowitz. Hyperion is also an enthusiast for the great performers of the past, and as a recognized authority on historical recordings he has published numerous articles about the great pianists and conductors of the early twentieth century.
