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Tom Beghin

The Belgian-Canadian pianist Tom Beghin combines a career as a performer with that of researcher and teacher. His expertise concerns historical performance on 18- and 19-century keyboards. His published work spans various media, from academic essays and books to sound recordings and video productions. He has been the driving force behind several projects to build replicas of historical instruments, mostly in partnership with the Belgian piano builder Chris Maene. Recent work on Beethoven’s 1803 Erard piano has resulted in the double-CD, Beethoven and His French Piano (Evil Penguin Records, 2020), the book Beethoven’s French Piano: A Tale of Ambition and Frustration (University of Chicago Press, 2022), and an edited volume of Keyboard Perspectives (“The Lure of Paris, 1795–1810,” 2021). A replica of Beethoven’s 1817 Broadwood piano was featured on Inside the Hearing Machine, a multi-media project that explores the connection of the composer’s deafness with his late piano music. His book The Virtual Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist (University of Chicago Press, 2015) followed his recording of the complete solo Haydn keyboard works (Naxos 2009/2011), which was path-breaking in the domain of virtual acoustics. Alumnus of the HIP-doctoral program at Cornell University, Tom Beghin was professor at UCLA (1997– 2003) and McGill University (2003–18), where he still functions as Adjunct Professor. He was William J. Bouwsma Fellow at the American National Humanities Center (2002–3) and has served on the board of directors of the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Instruments. He is on the board of the Haydn Institute in Cologne and member of CIRMMT (Centre of Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, Montreal), as well a Special Guest Professor in the Arts at the University of Leuven. Since 2015, Prof. Beghin has been Senior Researcher and Principal Investigator at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Belgium. His research cluster, Declassifying the Classics, focuses on the intersections of technology, rhetoric, and performance. 

Selective discography

	Inside the hearing machine - Beethoven on his Broadwood (2017) classical Tom Beghin, Ludwig Van Beethoven		Schubert Franz - Winterreise (2014) romanticism Jan Van Elsacker, Franz Schubert, Tom Beghin
	The Virtual Haydn (2009) classicism Tom Beghin, Joseph Haydn		Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus - Sonatas K 331 Alla Turca / K 570 Fantasia K 397 / Adagio K 540 (2006) classicism Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Tom Beghin
	Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel - Pièces de caractère (2003) classicism Tom Beghin, Jan Van Elsacker, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach		Orations at the keyboard (2001) classicism Tom Beghin, Joseph Haydn
	Moscheles Ignaz - Grosse Sonate für das Pianoforte (2000) romanticism Tom Beghin		Mendelssohn- Bartoldy, Zelter - Des Mädchens Klage Lieder (1998) romanticism Tom Beghin, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Andrea Folan, Carl Friedrich Zelter
	van Beethoven Ludwig - Sonaten voor pianoforte (1997) classicism Tom Beghin, Ludwig Van Beethoven		Feestelijk Klassiek (1997) classicism, Baroque Manu Mellaerts, Patrick Peire, Johann Wilhelm Hertel, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Dirk Vermeulen, Johann Christian Bach, Carlos Bruneel, Carl Stamitz (...)

Author of

	Een ongehoorde Mozart		Joseph Haydn (1998) Klassiek Tom Beghin

Selectieve discografie als medewerker

	Schubert Franz - Winterreise (2014) romanticism Jan Van Elsacker, Franz Schubert, Tom Beghin		Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) (2005) classicism Bartolozzi Trios

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