Konstantin Lifschitz

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Konstantin Lifschitz (born December 10, 1976 in Charkow ) is a Russian pianist of Jewish descent.

Career

Lifschitz came to the Gnessin Institute in Moscow when he was five . Tatjana Zelikman was his most important teacher. At the age of 13 he gave his first concert in the House of Trade Unions (Moscow) , which was enthusiastically received. For the exam (1994) he played the Goldberg Variations , Gaspard de la nuit and works by Scriabin . His teachers were Theodor Gutman , Vladimir Tropp , Karl-Ulrich Schnabel , Fou Ts' ong , Alfred Brendel , Leon Fleisher , Rosalyn Tureck , Hamish Milne and Charles Rosen . Lifschitz did not take part in a single piano competition.

After perestroika he began to perform in European music centers. He has given concerts with major orchestras all over the world, including the Solisti Veneti , the MDR Symphony Orchestra , the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields , the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz , the Konzerthausorchester Berlin , the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg , the Minnesota Orchestra , the Bern Symphony Orchestra , the London Symphony , the Chicago Symphony , the New York Philharmonic and the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic . The conductors were Andrey Boreyko , Bernard Haitink , Eliahu Inbal , Marek Janowski , Michail Wladimirowitsch Jurowski , Eri Klas , Fabio Luisi , Neville Marriner , Claudio Scimone , Juri Chatujewitsch Temirkanow , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Mstislaw Leopoldowitsch Rostropowitsch .

He gives master classes all over the world and has been teaching his own class at the Lucerne School of Music since 2008 . He lives near Lucerne .

Chamber musician

He plays chamber music with string quartets and soloists such as Gidon Kremer , Dmitri Sitkowetski , Patricia Kopatchinskaja , Leila Josefowicz , Mischa Maisky , Lynn Harrell , Carolin Widmann , Bella Davidovich , Valery Afanassiev , Natalia Gutman , Jörg Widmann , Sol Gabetta , Alexei Wolodin , Daishin Kashimoto , Maxim Vengerov , Rostropowitsch († 2007) and Eugene Ugorski (* 1989).

conductor

Lifschitz has conducted various orchestras and the Gabrielichor as a conductor .

orchestra

Festivals

CD recordings

The entire list can be found on Konstantin Lifschitz's website.

Dedicatory works

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Communication Lifschitz
  2. ↑ CV (Bechstein)
  3. ^ Lifschitz´ website
  4. ↑ Gabrielichor
  5. ↑ At the Rheingau Music Festival Lifschitz performed Bach's complete piano works in a separate series for several years
  6. ^ Miami International Piano Festival
  7. ↑ SoNoRo
  8. ↑ discography . Konstantin Lifschitz. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  9. ↑ James Bolle
  10. ↑ List of works by W. Ryabov
  11. ↑ Jakov Jakoulov
  12. ↑ Rahel Senn
  13. ↑ Denis Burstein
  14. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Lifschitz, Konstantin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лифшиц, Константин Яковлевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Kharkov