Ralph van Raat

Pianist and musicologist Ralph van Raat, like his near-contemporary Steffen Schleiermacher, is in the unusual position of having established a thriving, major international performing career focusing entirely on music of the 20th and 21st centuries. He has been a passionate advocate of new works and has performed the premieres of numerous pieces by living composers, some of which were written especially for him. With few exceptions, he has gravitated toward the music of postmodernist and eclectic composers rather than the more cerebral modernists of the mid-20th century. Van ...