Konstantin Lifschitz

Konstantin Lifschitz (* 10th December 1976 in Charkow) is a russian pianist of jewish origin.

Career

At the age of five Lifschitz came to the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow. Tatjana Zelikman was his most important teacher there. When he was 13 he played his first concert at the House of the Unions (Moscow) 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 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 European major cities. Among the orchestra 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.[2]

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 Lucern.

Chamber musician

He 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 († 2007) und Eugene Ugorski (* 1989).[3]

Conductor

Lifschitz conducted orchestra and the Gabrieli Choir.

Orchester

• St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra of Vilnius
• Philharmonisches Kammerorchester Wernigerode
• Kammerorchester Arpeggione Hohenems
• Dalarna Sinfonietta Falun
• Lux Aeterna Budapest
• I Solisti di Napoli Neapel
• Neujahrskonzert Langnau in Emmental (2010)
• Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
• Kopenhagener Philharmoniker
• Moskauer Virtuosen

Festivals[Bearbeiten]

Rheingau Musik Festival Miami International Piano Festival

• Lucerne Festival
• Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
• Bodenseefestival
• Weiße Nächte Festival, Sankt Petersburg
• George Enescu Festival, Bukarest
• Newport Festival
• Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker
• Tivoli Festival Kopenhagen
• Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
• SoNoRo Internationales Kammermusik Festival, Bukarest

CD-Recordings

• Musikalisches Opfer, Drei Toccatas von Girolamo Frescobaldi und Präludium und Fuge Es-Dur BWV 552
• Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (DVD)
• Gottfried von Einem, Klavierkonzert
• 2. Klavierkonzert (Brahms)
• Die Kunst der Fuge (2009)
• Bachs sieben Klavierkonzerte mit dem Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
• 18. Klavierkonzert (Mozart) (2012)

Dedications

• James Bolle, Klavierkonzert
• Wladimir Rjabow, Vier Chromatische Etüden
• Jakov Jakoulov, Karussell
• Boris Yoffe, Muse der Demut
• Rahel Senn, Song of a Magnolia
• Denis Burstein, Variations
• Inna Zhvanetskaya, Tanzsuite (Partita)
• Nimrod Borenstein: Melancholic Mobile (No. 3 aus Reminiscences of Childhood) (2012)
• Colette Mourey: Eaux-Fortes, No. 6: Une promenade (spirituelle) à Rome (2012)

Prizes

• Echo (Musikpreis) für das Debütalbum mit Werken von Werken von Bach, Schumann, Medtner und Skrjabin (1995)
• Grammy Award Nomination für die Goldberg-Variationen (1996)
• Associate, dann Fellow der Royal Academy of Music
• Preis des Rowena Reed Kostellow Fund (New York)
• Hl. Sergius (Moskau)