André-Michel thrust

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André-Michel Schub (born December 26, 1952 in Paris ) is an American pianist and music teacher of French origin.

Schub came to the United States with his family at the age of eight months. He had his first piano lessons with his mother at the age of four, then Jascha Zayde was his teacher. He studied at Princeton University and was a student of Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute from 1970 to 1973 . In 1974 he won the Naumburg International Piano Competition , in 1977 he received the Avery Fisher Recital Award and in 1981 the Grand Prize at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition .

Schub has been Artistic Director of the Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Music since 1997 . He is also a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and teaches at the Manhattan School of Music . As a soloist he has performed with renowned orchestras such as the Boston Symphony , the Philadelphia Orchestra , the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Cleveland Orchestra , the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic , the Detroit Symphony Orchestra , the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra on . His discography includes albums with works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven , Johannes Brahms , Franz Liszt and Igor Stravinsky (with Cho-Liang Lin ).

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SURNAME Thrust, André-Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris