Origin German Role Pianist Name Christian Zacharias | Instruments Piano Occupation(s) Conductor Genres Classical music | |
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Website www.christian-zacharias.com Movies Mozart: Great Piano Concertos: Vol. 4, Mozart: Great Piano Concertos: Vol. 3 Albums Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 21, Piano Concertos Similar People Jan Lisiecki, Domenico Scarlatti, Hans Vonk, Frank Peter Zimmermann, David Zinman | ||
Christian zacharias w a mozart piano concerto no 6 in b flat major
Christian Zacharias (born 27 April 1950 in Jamshedpur) is a German pianist and conductor.
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Christian zacharias w a mozart piano concerto no 8 in c minor
Music career
Zacharias studied piano with Irene Slavin and Vlado Perlemuter in Paris. He won second prize at both the Geneva Competition in 1969 and the Van Cliburn Competition in 1973. After winning the Ravel Competition in Paris in 1975, he launched an international career. He has performed chamber music with such partners as the Alban Berg Quartet, the Guarneri Quartet, the Leipzig String Quartet, Heinrich Schiff, and Frank Peter Zimmermann. He made many recordings, among them a 1979 recording of 33 sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, the complete Schubert piano sonatas, the complete Mozart piano concertos (available on EMI classics), and the complete Beethoven piano concertos.
He began his conducting career in 1992 with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva. He made his US debut in 2000 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Since 2000, he has been artistic director of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Since 2002, he has been principal guest conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and since 2009 he has been an Artistic Partner with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
