Amir Katz
Amir Katz ( * 1973 in Ramat Gan, Israel) is an Israeli pianist.
Life
Amir Katz began playing the piano until the age of 11. His first teacher Hanna Shalgi discovered his talent and promoted his career. So Katz was already listening to the age of 15 with the Haifa Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Chamber Orchestra. He won his first international competition in 1993, the Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona. Further victories followed at the Robert Casadesus Competition in Cleveland and Viotti Competition in Italy Valsesia. Equipped with scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, he continued his education in Europe continued, including at sulamita Aronovsky in London. He later moved with support from the German Academic Exchange Service to Munich, where he studied with Elisso Virsaladze. At the International Piano Academy Lake Como he received from Leon Fleisher, Karl Ulrich Schnabel and Murray Perahia lessons. 2003 Katz won the Schubert Competition in Dortmund.
Meanwhile, Amir Katz is invited by orchestras and festivals to concerts worldwide. He performs in major concert halls in Europe, Asia and the USA, so the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Rudolfinum in Prague, Tonhalle Zurich, the Philharmonie in Berlin, and the Lincoln Center in New York. In addition, he has performed at international music festivals, such as the Savannah Music Festival, the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, as well as the Oleg Kagan Musikfest Kreuth. Regularly his concerts for radio and television are recorded. Multiple played Amir Katz with the Orquestra Sinfonica de Barcelona, the Israel Camerata, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Symphony of Princeton, Orchestre National de Lille, the Dortmund Philharmonic, the German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen, Prague Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic.
In four large, listed world cycles he interpreted all Sonatas and Impromptus by Franz Schubert, the 48 " Songs without Words " by Felix Mendelssohn and Frédéric Chopin's 21 Nocturnes.
Amir Katz played several CDs for the label Live Classics, Oehms Classics and Sony Classical. His published at Live Classics double CD with Felix Mendelssohn's " Songs without Words " selected, the trade magazine for classical music " crescendo " in its summer 2009 issue as the best CD of the last few months. On the occasion of his debut at the Miami Piano Festival with Frédéric Chopin Nocturnes 21 of the Miami Herald, reviewed in April 2011: " In fact, Katz seems the entire cycle as a great drama to conceive a journey through joy, beauty and despair. Katz showed an impressive sense of artistic daring, fearless, he directed the music at existing artistic conventions past. A large part of the cycle developed fresh and moving - a remarkable artistic achievement. "