Marian Migdal
Marian Migdal (born November 11, 1948 in Poland ; † April 2, 2015 in Bochum ) was a German pianist and professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama .
Life
After emigrating in 1964, Marian Migdal studied in Stockholm at the Kungliga Musikhögskolan Edsberg Slott with Hans Leygraf and Sergiu Celibidache until 1966 , and from 1967 continued his piano studies with Bruno Seidlhofer at the Cologne University of Music and Dance , which he completed with the concert exam . Further years of artistic training followed in the USA with Ania Dorfman at the Juilliard School of Music in New York , where he received the LOEB AWARD as the highest distinction for outstanding piano playing. In 1971 Marian Migdal won the ARD international piano competition in Munich, and two years later the International Schumann Competition in New York. Since then, his concert tours have taken him to the USA, Europe and Asia.
On his tours Marian Migdal performed in the most important music metropolises and gave concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London , the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the Symphony Orchestra of the Swedish Radio, the Stockholm Philharmonic , the Athens State Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, etc. under the direction of such well-known conductors as Yuri Ahronovitch , Moshe Atzmon , James Conlon , Dean Dixon , Charles Dutoit , Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Okko Kamu , Kazimierz Kord , James Loughran , Zdeněk Mácal , Jerzy Maksymiuk , Uri Segal , Walter Weller , Carlo Zecci et al. a.
In addition to many radio and television recordings, Marian Migdal has made numerous records, especially for EMI / ELECTROLA and RCA. They contain works by Beethoven, Berwald, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Galuppi, Grieg, Haydn, Liszt, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Tschaikowsky and Wieniawski.
Marian Migdal received the Swedish Record Prize for his recording of Franz Berwald's Piano Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London.
His chamber music recording, published in 2014, with violin sonatas by Beethoven, Debussy and Strauss (together with his daughter, the violinist Liv Migdal ) has also received several international awards.
From 1985 to 2014 Marian Migdal taught as a professor at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Homepage
- Works by and about Marian Migdal in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Migdal, Marian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pianist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd April 2015 |
| Place of death | Bochum |