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Konstantin Yakovlevich Lifschitz (Russian: Константин Яковлевич Лифшиц; born 10 December 1976 in Kharkov) is a Russian pianist of Jewish descent.




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. In Switzerland he became a Swiss citizen. 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.
Orchestra

St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra Vilnius
Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Wernigerode
Chamber Orchestra Arpeggione Hohenems
Dalarna Sinfonietta Falun
Lux Aeterna Budapest
I Solisti di Napoli
Neujahrskonzert Langnau in Emmental
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Copenhagen Philharmonic
Moscow Virtuosi
Century Orchestra Osaka




Selected Reviews


Konstantin Lifschitz – review, The Guardian, 2011
Konstantin Lifschitz – review, The Independent, 2007
Bach’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, All in a Day, NY Times, 2007
Schubert Piano works/Lifschitz/Palexa C




Festivals


Rheingau Musik Festival
Miami International Piano Festival
Lucerne Festival
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
Bodenseefestival
White Nights Festival, St. Petersburg
George Enescu Festival, Bucharest
Newport Music Festival
Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker
Tivoli Festival Copenhagen
Les Nuits Pianistiques Festival, Aix-en-Provence
SoNoRo International Chamber Music Festival, Bukarest




Recordings


The pianist has released 39 recordings to date. A full list can be found on his website

Johann Sebastian Bach and Peter Seabourne: Toccatas and Fantasies . Johann Sebastian Bach Toccatas BWV 910-916 and Peter Seabourne Steps Volume 6: Toccatas and Fantasias (Willowhayne Records, 2022)
Ludwig van Beethoven: 32 Sonatas (Alpha Classics - ALPHA584, 2020)
Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Jakov Jakoulov: Daphnis et Chloé (Orfeo – C905162A, 2016)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variationen BWV 988 (Orfeo – C864141A, 2015)
Gottfried von Einem: Concerto op. 20 with Rundfunk-Symphonieorchester Wien, conductor Cornelius Meister (Orfeo - C8828112A, 2008)




Dedications


Peter Seabourne, Steps Volume 6: Toccatas and Fantasias
James Bolle, Piano Concert
Vladimir Ryabov, 4 Chromatic Studies
Jakov Jacoulov, Carrousel
Boris Yoffe, Humble Muse
Rahel Senn, Song of a Magnolia
Denis Burstein, Variations
Inna Zhvanetskaya, Dance-Suite (Partita)
Nimrod Borenstein, Melancholic Mobile (No. 3 from Reminiscences of Childhood)
Colette Mourey, Eaux-Fortes, No. 6: Une promenade (spirituelle) à Rome




Prizes


Echo (music award) Best International Newcomer (1995) for the Debut Recording
Grammy Award Nomination (1996) For the Goldberg Variations Recording
Associate, later Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music (2003)
Rowenna Prize of the Reed Kostellow Fund (New York) (2006)
Holy Sergius of Radonezh Order (Moskau) (2007)




References






External links


Website Konstantin Lifschitz
Biography at Musical America

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Konstantin Lifschitz
• The Musical Offering
• Hideko Udagawa
• Nikolai Medtner
• Gnessin State Musical College
• Hong Kong Arts Festival
• Daishin Kashimoto
• Corinne Chapelle
• Colette Mourey
• Peter Seabourne