Jan Lisiecki

January Lisiecki ( born March 23, 1995 Calgary, Canada) is a classical pianist. He came as the son of Polish parents to the world and distinguished himself at an early age by a pianist and school performance from.

Biography

January Milosz Lisiecki studied since the age of five piano at Mount Royal University Conservatory.

Only 17 years old he made a name for himself in the Canadian and international concert scene. As a nine- year-old he made ​​his first concert with an orchestra and has since been placed in his home country and internationally over 100 concerts with orchestras, including the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, L' Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Minnesota Orchestra, Sinfonietta Cracovia, Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra and Sinfonia Varsovia.

He is a passionate chamber musician who has worked with the New Zealand String Quartet, Quatuor Ébène and Penderecki String Quartet. His partners included Yo- Yo Ma, Pinchas Zukerman, James Ehnes and Emanuel Ax.

January Lisiecki plays frequently for charities, including the David Foster Foundation, the Polish Humanitarian Organization and the Wish Upon a Star Foundation. In June 2008 he was appointed UNICEF Canada National Youth Ambassador for.

On the recommendation of the School Board in January Lisiecki could skip four classes. In January 2011 he passed his final exams at Western Canada High School in Calgary. In September 2011 he began his studies as a scholarship holder of the Glenn Gould School of Music in Toronto.

A few months earlier, in February 2011, closed in January Lisiecki and German gramophone from an exclusive recording contract. His first recording for the label was Mozart's Piano Concertos No. 20 K. 466 and No. 21, K. 467, the album was released internationally on 13 April 2012.

Prizes and awards

In recognition of his poetic and mature game January Lisiecki has received many prestigious awards and Canadian music awards, He is also a prize winner at seven international competitions in the USA, Italy, England and Japan.

His first CD, which contains recordings from two live concerts in Poland, was released in 2010 by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. She was awarded the " Diapason decouverte ". The magazine " Diapason " Lisiecki called a " virtuoso devoid of affectation with a powerful and above all, irresistibly natural playing ." The BBC Music Magazine praised Lisieckis » mature musicality " and his " sensitive, focused ," interpretation of the contrasting concerts " were played with sparkling technique and idiomatic expression ," and noted that "even in a crowded CD catalog, this refreshingly welcome unobtrusive debut release "was.

2013 Lisiecki was awarded the Leonard Bernstein Award, which is endowed with 10,000 euros and was presented at the Schleswig - Holstein Music Festival.

Discography

  • Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concertos 1 & 2, Sinfonia Varsovia, Howard Shelley (2010)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos 20 & 21, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christian Zacharias (2012 )
  • Frédéric Chopin: Etudes Op 10 & Op 25 (2013 )

Credentials

  • Deal Puts pianist on Path to Stardom Classical, Calgary Herald
  • The Fryderyk Chopin Institute
  • Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
  • UNICEF
  • ProArts Society
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