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Albums Goldberg Variations, Lifschitz Similar People Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Frederic Chopin, Murray Perahia, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Payne | ||
Konstantin lifschitz j s bach preludes and fugues c major
Konstantin Yakovlevich Lifschitz (Russian: Константин Яковлевич Лифшиц; born 10 December 1976 in Kharkov) is a Russian pianist of Jewish origin.
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Konstantin lifschitz j s bach preludes fugues c m c m
Career
At the age of five Lifschitz came to the Gnessin Specialized Music School in Moscow. Tatiana Zelikman was his most important teacher. When he was 13 he gave his first recital at the House of the Unions (Moscow) that was greeted with enthusiasm. At the final exam (1994) he played the Goldberg Variations, Gaspard de la nuit and works by Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin. His other teachers were Teodor Gutman, Vladimir Tropp, Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Fou Ts’ong, Alfred Brendel, Leon Fleischer, Rosalyn Tureck, Hamish Milne and Charles Rosen. Lifschitz did not participate in any piano contests.
After the Perestroika he started to give concerts in major European cities. Among the orchestras he played with are I Solisti Veneti, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Minnesota Orchestra, Bern Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductors were Andrey Boreyko, Bernard Haitink, Eliahu Inbal, Marek Janowski, Michail Jurowski, Eri Klas, Fabio Luisi, Neville Marriner, Claudio Scimone, Yuri Temirkanov, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Mstislav Rostropovich.
Konstantin Lifschitz is giving masterclasses all around the world. Since 2008 he has an own class at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He lives near Lucerne.
He performs or performed chamber music with string quartets and soloists as Gidon Kremer, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Leila Josefowicz, Mischa Maisky, Lynn Harrell, Carolin Widmann, Bella Davidovich, Valery Afanassiev, Natalia Gutman, Jörg Widmann, Sol Gabetta, Alexei Volodin, Daishin Kashimoto, Maxim Vengerov, Mstislav Rostropovich (died 2007) and Eugene Ugorski (born 1989).
Lifschitz conducts orchestras and the Gabrieli Choir.
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