{"product_id":"benjamin-salman","title":"Benjamin Salman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBenjamin\nSalman is an eighteen year old homeschooled student. He has been studying piano\nand composition seriously since the age of ten, though he has improvised on the\npiano for as long as he can remember. He lives in Seattle, where studies with\nhis father, Mark Salman; he also attends the Seattle Conservatory of Music,\nwhere he participates in the performance, academic, and chamber music programs.\nIn addition to winning second place in this year’s Bainbridge Symphony\nOrchestra Young Artists Concerto Competition, Benjamin was awarded first prize in\nthe senior division of the romantic era competition at the Seattle\nInternational Piano Festival in 2012; in 2011 he was the second runner up in\nthe Seattle Philharmonic’s Don Bushell Concerto Competition. For the last three\nyears Benjamin has participated in the Seattle Young Composers Workshop. As\npart of that he has had his compositions performed at Nordstrom Recital Hall at\nBenaroya Hall by members of the Seattle Symphony.\u003cspan\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u003c\/span\u003eIn addition to music, his interests include\nhistory and geography; he came in 12th in the nation (1st in Washington State)\nin the 2009 National Geographic Geography Bee. He intends to study piano and\ncomposition in college, and particularly admires the music of Bach, Beethoven,\nLiszt, and Brahms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBenjamin is the \u003cspan\u003esecond-place winner\nof the BSO’s 2013 Young Artist Competition.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"BPA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":819491243,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0641\/5033\/products\/Benjamin_Salman_Photo_2.jpeg?v=1409778910","url":"https:\/\/bpa-dev.myshopify.com\/products\/benjamin-salman","provider":"Bainbridge Performing Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}