Len Vorster left South Africa for Australia in 1983 after completing post-graduate piano studies with Lamar Crowson at the University of Cape Town.

He made his concerto debut with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra in Mozart's Piano Concerto K456 in 1976. As concerto soloist, he has recorded Michael Easton's Concerto on Australian Themes with the State Orchestra of Victoria for NAXOS.

He premiered the work in Italy, Hungary, Germany, and with the Royal Academy Orchestra in London in December 2001.

His NAXOS recordings have received outstanding reviews around the world, as well as a Gramophone Magazine Award for his recording of Holst's The Planets.

He has performed and recorded with Ian Partridge (the complete songs and piano music of Lord Berners), Trevor Wye, Andras Adorjan, Susan Milan, Masahide Kurita, Jane Rutter, James Buswell, Asmira Woodward-Page, Rita Hunter, Merlyn Quaife, Margaret Haggart, Elizabeth Campbell, Lauris Elms, and in two pianos with John McCabe.

In October 2001 he launched a duo and released a CD Reflections for cello and piano with Melbourne Symphony principal cellist David Berlin at the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival.

The Berlin Vorster Duo did a concert tour in Taiwan in April 2003. Most recently ABC Classics released two CDs of Brahms Clarinet Chamber Music with Len Vorster, Deborah de Graaff and Georg Pedersen.

In early 2003 Len Vorster released a solo piano CD Summer Waves with music by Gershwin, Debussy, Poulenc, Ravel, Falla, Grieg, Field, Lord Berners and Berkeley.

He performs regularly with Wendy Grose in "A Different Hat" (based on the story of Marjorie Lawrence) and "Perfect Timing" (a tribute to concert comedienne Anna Russell).

He has also performed with Merlyn Quaife in the Poulenc/Cocteau "La Voix Humaine".

Len Vorster is on the piano staff at the University of Melbourne, the Victorian College of the Arts, and at Monash University.

Len Vorster is Artistic Director of Classical Palette and of the Schirmer Ensemble. He was founding Artistic Director of the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival from 1990 to 2001.

REVIEWS

LORD BERNERS - SONGS AND PIANO MUSIC
IAN PARTRIDGE (ten) LEN VORSTER (pf) MARCO POLO 8.225159 (52 minutes:DDD) GRAMOPHONE OCTOBER 2000: A delightfully performed collection by one of Britain's most progressive composers of his day, the eccentric Lord Berners. Len Vorster backs him [Partridge] up splendidly and is completely at home in the solo piano music. The recording is truthful.
LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH 22 JULY 2000: Len Vorster plays the piano pieces on this disc with idiomatic vigour (Polka, March and Valse ) and suitably aggressive virtuosity (Fragments psychologiques and Trois Petites Marches fun�bres ). The songs offer an even wider expressive range, and for these Vorster is joined by the tenor Ian Partridge in eloquent performances.

MANUEL DE FALLA - SONGS AND PIANO MUSIC
MERLYN QUAIFE (soprano), LEN VORSTER (piano), ANTHONY FIELD (guitar), BEN DICKSON (percussion) NAXOS 8.554498 (53â57":DDD) CLASSICS TODAY 2000: This enterprising disc contains much that will delight fans of Manuel de Falla. This lively, intelligently presented, well recorded, and beautifully performed program is simply a "must" for lovers of Spanish music. AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE The piano selections are played quite effectively and without pretense by Len Vorster. [John Boyer].

 

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