Andras Schiff
Andras Schiff was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1953. He started playing piano with Elisabeth Vadász (Elisabeth Vadász) at the age of 5, and then went to Liszt Conservatory in Hungary with Pál Kadosa (Pál Kadosa). , György Kurtág, Ferenc Rados, and George Malcolm in London.
Since 2004, Schiff has toured 20 cities to perform Beethoven's entire 32 piano sonatas, and the entire performance at the Zurich Concert Hall has been recorded and released on-site.
Schiff’s latest album released on ECM Records in April 2015 focused on Schubert’s late piano works and was recorded with the Vienna classical piano built by Brodman in 1820. It has recently won the International Classical Music Award (ICMA). Best annual solo instrumental recording. This is the second time Schiff has won this award. The previous time was in 2012 for the recording of Schumann's "Ghost Variations" (released by ECM).
Schiff has worked with the most important internationally renowned orchestras and conductors, and now he mainly performs as a soloist and conductor. In 1999 he founded his own chamber orchestra, Cappella Andrea Barca, composed of international solo musicians, chamber musicians, and his friends. In addition to this group, Schiff also regularly cooperates with the European Chamber Orchestra every year.
Schiff has been fond of chamber music performances since he was young. From 1989 to 1998, Schiff served as the artistic director of the internationally renowned Moon Lake Music Festival. In 1995, he and the oboe master Heinz Hollig founded the Ettinger Whitsunday Music Festival in Cartel • Ittingen, Switzerland. In 1998, Schiff started a similar series of music festivals at the Olympic Theatre in Vicenza, Italy. Named "Salute to Palladio".
Schiff has won many international awards. In 2006, he was awarded the honorary member of the Beethoven House in Bonn, Germany, in recognition of his interpretation of Beethoven's works. In 2008, the Wigmore Hall in the United Kingdom was also awarded a special honor, applauding Schiff’s numerous performances in the hall over the past 30 years. And in 2009, he became a special adjunct professor at Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK, received the Schumann Prize from Zwickau in 2011, received the Mozart Gold Medal from the International Mozart Foundation in 2012, and was awarded the German Science and Art Merit Medal was awarded the German Federal Star Grand Cross Medal, was honored as an honorary member of the Vienna Golden Hall, and received an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Leeds in July 2014.
In the spring of 2011, Schiff attracted public attention because he was opposed to the worrying political development in Hungary. Considering that he might be personally attacked by some Hungarian nationalists, he decided not to live in his hometown. show. In June 2014, Schiff was awarded the title of knight at the Queen's Birthday Banquet for his contribution to music.