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-Institute in Moscow. Tatjana Zelikman was his most important teacher there. . At the final exam (1994) he played the Goldberg Variations, Gaspard de la nuit and works by Skjabin. His teachers were Theodor Gutman, Vladimir Tropp, Karl-Ulrich Schnabel, Fou Ts’ong, Alfred Brendel, Leion Fleischer, Rosalyn Tureck, Hamish Milne and Charles Rosen. Lifschitz did not participate in any piano contest.[1]

After the Perestroika he started to give concerts in European major cities. Among the orchestra he played with are Solisti Veneti, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Minnesota Orchestra, The Berner Symphonie-Orchester, The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), The New York Philharmonic, The Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductors were Andrey Boreyko, Bernard Johan Herman 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.[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, 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) und Eugene Ugorski (* 1989).[3]

Conductor

Lifschitz conducted orchestra and the Gabrielichor.[4]

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[5] Miami International Piano Festival[6] 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[7]

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[8] Wladimir Rjabow, Vier Chromatische Etüden[9] Jakov Jakoulov, Karussell[10] Boris Yoffe, Muse der Demut Rahel Senn, Song of a Magnolia[11] Denis Burstein, Variations[12] Inna Zhvanetskaya, Tanzsuite (Partita)[13] 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)