Emanuel Ax

Emanuel Ax ( born June 8, 1949 in Lviv ) is an American pianist of Polish-Jewish origin.

Life

Emanuel Ax was born in Lemberg. His Jewish parents survived the concentration camps. At the age of 6 years Ax began to learn the piano; His first teacher was his father. As Emanuel Ax was 8 years old, his parents moved with him to Warsaw, where he continued to receive piano lessons at school at Miodowa Street.

In 1959 he emigrated with his parents to Canada, and two years later in the United States. Emanuel Ax studied in New York, among others, at the Juilliard School of Music, where he teaches today. In 1969, began with the debut in South America his international concert career.

Ax won the first prize at the Arthur Rubinstein Competition in 1974. 1979 he was awarded the Avery Fisher Award. He also received several record prices, 1995 and 2004 Grammy Award in the category of Instrumentalist without Orchestra for his recording of sonatas by Joseph Haydn. 2013 he was awarded the ECHO Klassik for Solo Recording of the Year.

Repertoire

In addition to classical and romantic is dedicated Ax modernist works, including Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Aaron Copland, Hans Werner Henze and John Adams.