Emanuel Ax

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Emanuel Ax (2009)

Emanuel Ax (born June 8, 1949 in Lemberg ) is an American pianist of Polish-Jewish origin.

Life

Emanuel Ax was born in Lviv. His Jewish parents survived the concentration camp . Ax began to learn the piano at the age of 6; his first teacher was his father. When Emanuel Ax was 8 years old, his parents moved with him to Warsaw , where he continued to take piano lessons at the school on Miodowa Street.

In 1959 he emigrated with his parents to Canada and two years later to the USA. Emanuel Ax studied in New York , including at the Juilliard School of Music , where he now teaches. His international concert career began in 1969 with his debut in South America .

Ax won first prize in the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in 1974. In 1979 he was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize . He has also received several record awards, such as the 1995 and 2004 Grammy Award in the category instrumentalist without orchestra for his recording of Joseph Haydn's sonatas . He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2007 and of the American Philosophical Society since 2009 . In 2013 he was honored with the ECHO Klassik for the solo recording of the year . Ax received honorary degrees in music from Yale University and Columbia University . Ax lives with his wife, the pianist Yoko Nozaki, and their children Joseph and Sarah in New York.

repertoire

In addition to the Classical and Romantic periods, Ax is dedicated to modern works, including works by Arnold Schönberg , Paul Hindemith , Aaron Copland , Hans Werner Henze and John Adams .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ echoklassik.de - Prize Winner 2013 ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 8, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echoklassik.de
  2. ↑ About - Emanuel Ax. In: http://emanuelax.com . Emanuel Ax, accessed January 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ax, Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pianist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv