András Schiff
András Schiff [ ɒndra ː ʃ ʃif ] ( born December 21, 1953 in Budapest) is a Hungarian pianist and conductor.
Life
Ship grew up as an only child in a musical family. His father worked as a gynecologist, collected records and making music in his spare time. His mother wanted to be a concert pianist, a project that crossed the Second World War.
András began playing the piano at age five, with eleven he intensified his training stint. He first learned to Elizabeth Vadász. Ship, Zoltán Kocsis and generation colleague of Dezso Ránki, picked up with 14 years of his studies at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest, among others, Ferenc Rados, Pál Kadosa and György Kurtág. He spent several times his summer vacation in England with relatives. There he became friends with the 40-year old conductor and harpsichordist George Malcolm ( 1917-1997 ), with whom he made music together, without taking formal lessons with him. Ship Malcolm owes much of its Bach - understanding. He received Austrian citizenship in 1987 and 2001, the British citizenship.
Ship occurs internationally, both as a soloist and together with renowned orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic. Ship since 1999, founder and conductor of the internationally occurring Chamber Orchestra Cappella Andrea Barca.
From 1989 to 1998 headed the ship Mondsee festival near Salzburg. Together with Heinz Holliger, he founded in 1995 the " Ittinger Pfingstkonzerte " in the Charterhouse.
In 2000 the ship said from his participation at the Schubertiade in Feldkirch and so expressed his protest against the participation of the rightist Freedom Party in the Austrian Federal Government. Against the Hungarian media law and political interference in the culture wrote under the Orbán government ship in January 2011 with several artists a resolution. In interviews, he announced that he would no longer give concerts in Hungary, because he was persona non grata there and he was threatened by anti-Semitic incitement in person.
Ship is married to the violinist Yuuko Shiokawa. He lives in London and Florence.
Awards - Awards
Repertoire
Ship is considered to be a subtle interpreter of the music of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Especially important to him is to take care of the piano oeuvre of his compatriot Béla Bartók. In addition, he devotes himself to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, who for him is the " alpha and omega of music." He does not follow the historical performance practice, but also provides the music of Bach usually on modern wings, but of different construction ( Bösendorfer, Steinway ) dar. Nevertheless For him, the study of historical knowledge ( ornaments, articulation, phrasing ) inextricably to the interpretation process. At the same time he waives any pianistic self-representation, so that his interpretations have an introverted and almost intimate character. Ship began in 1994 as a soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto G major under the direction of Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau on. Last were heard in The Way of Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke by Viktor Ullmann ship and Fischer-Dieskau together at the Whitsun Concerts Ittinger 2003.
Recordings and publications
From ship are recordings of all sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert and Mozart's piano concertos, as well as all the major solo piano works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Together with Peter Schreier he has recorded songs by Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, Robert Holl songs by Brahms and Schumann. He has played in 1991 and 1992 with Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau Schubert's " The Beautiful Miller " in TDK a DVD recording of the memorable concert by the composer Schubert Feldkirch appeared in 1991. cpo published in 2007 a box with 6 CDs (piano solo).
In autumn 2011, a double CD with works by Schumann appeared at the ECM label.