Michail Lifits

Mikhail Lifits ( born September 25, 1982 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan ) is a German pianist of Uzbek origin.

Life

Born in 1982 in Tashkent (Uzbekistan ) pianist Mikhail Lifits began at the age of five years of piano lessons and studied with Boris Petrushansky in Piano Academy " Incontri col Maestro " in Imola ( Italy), and Karl -Heinz Kammerling and Bernd Goetzke at the University of Music and Theatre in Hanover.

In 1991, Lifits first appearances in Uzbekistan, followed by concerts in Europe, Asia and the USA. In 1995 he made ​​his debut with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Uzbekistan. Concert engagements have taken him to Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, the Salle Cortot and the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, the Sala Verdi in Milan, the Teatro Olimpico in Rome, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Wigmore Hall in London and the Great Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic. Lifits was a guest at the Festival, Kissinger Sommer, the Schwetzingen SWR Festival, the Rheingau young music festival, the Braunschweig Classix, the Ruhr Piano Festival and Festspiele Mecklenburg -Vorpommern in Germany as well as at festivals in France, Poland and Italy. The orchestral engagements include concerts by Mikhail Lifits with the Deutsches Symphonie - Orchester Berlin, Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha, the Florence Symphony Orchestra, Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra del Teatro Verdi di Trieste, the Orchestra J.Futura, the Orchestra Sinfonica del Friuli Venezia Giulia and the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo.

Since 2011 Mikhail Lifits stands at the Decca / Universal Classics under contract.

Prices

  • 2003: 1st prize and the audience prize at " Silvio Bengali Piano Prize" at Val Tidone Piano Competititions in Italy;
  • 2004: 1st prize at the International Piano Competition " Città di Treviso 46th Award ";
  • 2006: 1st prize at the International Piano Competition " Antonio Napolitano " in Vietri sul Mare;
  • 2006: 1st prize, Orchestra Prize, a special prize for the best interpretation of Chopin's works, as well as an audience prize at the International Piano Competition " Rina Sala Gallo" in Monza
  • 2009: 1st prize at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition in USA
  • 2009: 1st prize, audience prize and the special prize for the best interpretation of the piano concerto by Mozart at the International Piano Competition Ferruccio Busoni in Bolzano ( Italy)

Discography

  • 2011: with Vilde: Violin Sonatas, EMI Classics
  • 2012: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Decca / Universal Classics 476 4857
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